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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.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was absolutely horrified.\NI was staring at him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was too afraid to wipe\Nthe spit off my face,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even as it was mixing with my tears.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember looking around,\Nhoping that any minute now,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a grown-up is going to come \Nand make this guy stop.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But instead, people kept hurrying past me\Nand pretended not to see me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was very confused\Nbecause I was thinking,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, my white people, come on!\NWhere are they? What's going on?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How come they're not\Ncoming and rescuing me?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, needless to say,\NI didn't buy the sweets.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just ran home as fast as I could.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things were still okay, though, I thought.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As time went on, the more successful\NI became, I eventually started attracting
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,harassment from brown people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some men in my parent's community\Nfelt that it was unacceptable
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and dishonorable for a woman\Nto be involved in music
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to be so present in the media.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So very quickly, I was starting to become\Nattacked at my own concerts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember one of the concerts,\NI was onstage, I lean into the audience
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the last thing I see is\Na young brown face
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the next thing I know\Nsome sort of chemical is thrown in my eyes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I remember I couldn't really see\Nand my eyes were watering
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I kept singing anyway.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was spit in the face in the streets\Nof Oslo, this time by brown men.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They even tried to\Nkidnap me at one point.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The death threats were endless.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember one older bearded guy\Nstopped me in the street one time,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said, the reason\NI hate you so much
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because you make\Nour daughters think
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they can do whatever they want.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A younger guy warned me\Nto watch my back.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said music is un-Islamic\Nand the job of whores,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you keep this up,\Nyou are going to be raped
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your stomach will be cut out so that\Nanother whore like you will not be born.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, I was so confused.\NI couldn't understand what was going on -- my brown people now starting to treat me like this. How come? Instead of bridging the worlds, the two worlds, I felt like I was falling between my two worlds. I suppose for me, spit was kryptonite. So by the time I was 17-years-old, the death threats were endless and the harassment was constant. It got so bad, at one point my mother sat me down and said, look, we can no longer protect you, we can no longer keep you safe. So you're going to have to go. So I bought a one-way ticket to London. I packed my suitcase, and I left. My biggest heartbreak at that point was that nobody said anything. I had a very public exit from Norway. My brown people, my white people, nobody said anything. Nobody said, hold on, this is wrong. Support this girl, protect this girl because she is one of us. Nope. Nobody said that. Instead, I felt like, you know at the airport, on the baggage