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Mrs. Plum - Ezekiel Mphahlele - Coggle Diagram
Mrs. Plum - Ezekiel Mphahlele
Mistreatment
poor pay
"no one can ever say they are well paid"
demeaning names / title "You Black Girl"
"I knew so many whites who did not care what they called black people as long as it was all right for their tongue."
inappropriate touching
"Did you hear about Rebone, people? Her Madam put her out, because her master was always tapping her buttocks with his fingers."
community
"...we meet on Thursday afternoons, which is time off for all of us black women in the suburbs"
"Sometimes we catch the eyes of a white woman looking at us and we laugh and laugh and laugh until we nearly drop on the ground because we feel good inside ourselves"
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The name Karabo used only used at home or when friends talk to her
white power structure/racial inequalitys
White people title of Master or Madam
disparity in education
having to explain "higher" and "lower" schools
it is notable to have classes that teach servants how to read and write
overwhelming demographic of white families employing black servants
Karabo finds it difficult to eat with the family because servants are typically not allowed to
black servants given the title of Boy or Girl (i.e. "garden boy")
separate communities / housing
"After the market is the place where Indians and Coloured people live."
fight for equality
Mrs Plum is shown to be an advocate for racial equality
teaches english and writing classes to servants
"Now listen here, she says, You Africans must learn to speak properly about each other. And she says White people won’t talk kindly about you if you look down upon each other."
pushed for black people to be allowed positions in goverment
"A master and a servant can never be friends..."