   'Dani wants a job'
Dani txt 2 Bal: WerRU
Bal txt 2 Dani: @ library WsUuuuu?
Dani txt 2 Bal: W84Me :-[ can U help with my job form
Bal txt 2 Dani: OK CU ASAP
Dani txt 2 Bal: ETA 10/60 Thx M8
Dani: I really need a job. I'm skint and I've just gotta buy those trousers I saw in Glitz! And this application form is a real pain - I just can't get my head round it.
Balvinder: Well face it Dani, if you go in and meet them they might take you on just because you're black. I mean, there must be loads of bosses who take on someone black because they're scared of being reported for being racist!
Dani: I wish I knew where! I really need to find a Saturday job soon.
Balvinder: I think that's really stupid to try and get someone from, you know, a minority, into a job. That's just as bad as only giving it to a white person.
Dani: But if it's been unfair for so long, what's wrong with making things even?
Balvinder: Two wrongs don't make a right. I wouldn't like a job like that.
Megan: Can't see why, a job's a job isn't it?
Balvinder: No, I'd hate it. Other people would think you'd only got the job because of your colour, not how good you were. I want to get a job because people think I'd be good. I don't want to be their token Asian. How would you like it if you had a job and people thought you only got it because the boss liked your mini skirt?
Megan: Yeah - maybe it can make people's attitudes worse.
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