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being attacked. I had a letter from a been Facebook campaigns asking in a world that’s gone back centuries The Top 10
Pakistani grandmother in Bristol who people to gang-rape me; I’ve been told where they cannot be themselves and
said that her seven-year-old mixed- I should be the next Jo Cox [the Labour they have to apologise for the colour of
race grandson won’t go to school any MP who was murdered in June 2016]... their skin. So why would I not fight for
more because of he’s now suffering just the nastiest things you can imagine. that? Nobody should apologise for who
racial abuse. His mother found him in I really did not believe these people they are.
the shower with a hard brush scrubbing still existed.
himself to bleeding because he’s been Where does that come from, did your
told he’s dirty and that he’s a piece of Given everything you’ve been through, parents instil those values in you?
s***, and all the things you can imagine. why do you keep fighting? What I think it’s nature and nurture, but I
I have another example of a man who motivates you? think my dad [former Attorney General
was speaking German to his mother I call it my pillow test. If I know of Guyana Doodnauth Singh] would
and he was tipped out of his wheelchair. something is wrong, (it’s like) if I knew say I’ve always been that girl. I’m
I’m getting these letters from around there was a drug being sold which was very much like my father. I ended up
the country – we can’t say this is a few poisoning people, could I go to sleep England because the leader of the
exceptions, it’s not. There has been a at night, could I put my head on my party my father was involved in, the
significant shift and change and that’s pillow and go to sleep? I couldn’t and PPP, was killed in a car bomb and we
why I’m going to speak up because this whenever I’m seeing things wrong and were threatened as a family. I believe
is not acceptable. I know I could make a difference, I can’t in fate and I believe I am the person I
ignore it. I’m a mental and physical am because I’m supposed to be here
Tell us about some of the abuse you fidget, as my husband calls me. All of so I take it all in my stride. I always felt
receive. this comes down to what sort of world it was wrong that you don’t help other
I’ve received very graphic threats about do I want my children to live in and their people. I happened to be born where
my children, horrific threats; there have children? I don’t want my children to live I was born, but I could’ve been born

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