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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a child,\NI knew I had superpowers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's right.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought I was absolutely amazing\Nbecause I could understand
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and relate to the feelings\Nof brown people, like my grandfather,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a conservative Muslim guy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also, I could understand\Nmy Afghan mother, my Pakistani father,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not so religious but\Nlaid-back, fairly liberal.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, I could understand\Nand relate to the feelings of white people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The white Norwegians of my country.\NYou know, white, brown, whatever,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I loved them all. I understood them all,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even if they didn't always\Nunderstand each other,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were all my people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father, though,\Nwas always really worried.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He kept saying that\Neven with the best education,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was not going to get a fair shake.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would still face discrimination,\Naccording to him, and that they only way
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be accepted by white people\Nwould be to become famous.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now mind you, he had this conversation\Nwith me when I was seven-years-old.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So while I'm seven-years-old,\Nhe said, look,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so its either got to be sports,\Nor its got to be music.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He didn't know anything about sports --\Nbless him -- so it was music.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when I was seven-years-old,\Nhe gathered all my toys, all my dolls,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he threw them all away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In exchange, he gave me a crappy little\NCasio keyboard and singing lessons.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He forced me, basically, to practice\Nfor hours and hours every single day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very quickly, he also had me performing\Nfor larger and larger audiences,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bizarrely, I became almost\Na kind of poster child
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Norwegian multi-culturalism.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt very proud, of course.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even the newspapers were starting\Nto write nice things about brown people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I could feel that\Nmy superpower was growing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when I was 12-years-old,\Nwalking home from school,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took a little detour\Nbecause I wanted to buy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my favorite sweets called Salty Feets.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know they sound kind of awful,\Nbut I absolutely love them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're basically these little salty\Nlicorice bits in the shape of feet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now that I say it out loud,\NI realize how terrible that sounds,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but be that as it may,\NI absolutely love them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So on my way into the store,\Nthere was this grown white guy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the doorway blocking my way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I tried to walk around him,\Nand as I did that, he stopped me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was staring at me,\Nand he spit in my face,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said, get out of my way\Nyou little black bitch,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you little Paki bitch,\Ngo back home where you came from.