Why Pam wants Charity to win Big Brother, after that conversation with Ebony
A swimming lesson turned into a talk about racism in Australia. WHO asked the people closest to it what it meant.
Charity's conversation with Ebony about racism in Australia aired on Big Brother this week, and Pam has told WHO it is part of the reason she wants Charity to win the season.
If you have watched since week one, you know how far these two have come. WHO's Freja Newman writes that Charity had to pull Ebony up on her language in the first week. Three weeks on, Ebony was giving Charity her first swimming lesson. WHO spoke to Pam after she left the house, and to Charity before the season began. These are the answers worth your time.
What did Charity tell Ebony?
Big Brother's own clip of the scene says the talk started when Ebony learned Charity had never learned to swim and helped her practise floating. From there Charity spoke about coming to Australia as a refugee and what school was like for her and her family.
"My little sisters would get bullied 'cause they're darker-skinned than me," Charity told Ebony, as quoted by WHO.
"Racism is just undercover." Charity, to Ebony, as quoted by WHO
What does Charity want you to take from it?
Before the season began, Charity told WHO she wants "people to just know that there's more to the South Sudanese community".
"There's some really good people in the hood. I want them to see that side," she said.
Why is Pam backing Charity?
Pam told WHO she is "hoping that Charity will win it", and called her "an amazing powerhouse of a woman". Her reason has nothing to do with strategy. Pam pointed to what Charity went through leaving South Sudan, and to how hard some of Ebony's comments about money must have been to hear. "Their backgrounds are just so so different," she said.
Pam has no vote on the winner now. You do.
Make this callOpen in the Litty appHas Ebony changed?
Newman's view is that Ebony has "grown a lot" in the house, and Pam is not the only former housemate with Ebony on her mind: Pheobe left saying she had no malice towards her.
Pam's son Kieran Davidson put it this way online, in a comment WHO reported: "She would never have had a chat like this on day 1 – so amazing to see such growth!"
Picture: Channel 10, via WHO
By Litty Newsroom
