Some of my best friends are "People of your culture"

There's this lady Gillian on my course. She's fully old. And wears crazy hats. And says lots of irrelevant things, in a weird colonial accent... annoying - but very entertaining. Halfway through rambling on about Percy Shelley in the middle of a Mary Wollstonecraft seminar, she looks over at Nandipha (black, female, first language english speaker, private-schooled english graduate, highly intelligent) and pulls out this line about "people in YOUR culture" and proceeds to tell her how 20 years ago black girls would come to her while she was sitting in her garden and tell her about their problems.. and she would educate them. Bless her soul.