Racist.

 

Mama teaching Minny rules for working in a White Lady’s House.

 

“Rule Number One for working for a White Lady,

Minny: it is nobody’s business. You keep your nose out of your White Lady’s problems,

you don’t go crying to her with yours — You can’t pay light bill? Your feet are too sore?

Remember one thing: white people are not your friends.

They don’t want to hear about it. And when Miss White Lady catches her man with the lady next door,

you keep put of it.”

“Rule Number Two: don’t you ever let the White Lady find you sitting on her toilet….”

“Rule Number Three: when you’re cooking white people food, you taste it with different spoon…”

“Rule Number Four: you use the same cup, same fork, same plate everyday.

Keep it in a separate cupboard and tell that white woman that’s the one you’ll use from here on out…”

“Rule Number Five: you eat in the kitchen.”

“Rule Number Six: you don’t hit on her children. White people like to do their own spanking.”

“Rule Number Seven: this is the last one, No sass-mouthing.”

MINNY 

CHAPTER 3, PG39 & 40

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