Life Value

So, my brother finally persuades my mom to let him drive. I’m in the car and he wants to show his driving skills off to me. They switch places and I’m thinking, he promised her he’d drive leisurely, otherwise she’s never gonna let him drive again. So I’m safe.
It’s like sometimes I forget who my brother is.
Anyway, we’re driving a bit too fast for my mother’s liking, I’m cracking up at all the wild jokes Ali’s making, and there are some Indians on bicycles and walking by on the road (remember those Indians who are always hanging out by the Dukkans wawie?). Ali doesn’t slow down and mom’s like: Ali you’re gonna hit them! He just looks at her and just keeps driving fast. Mom goes: ALI SLOW DOWN YOU’RE GOING TO HIT THEM! And he just looks at her and says: Mom, we have SO many of them! Don’t worry one or two gone missing won’t be noticed. I’m like ALI SLOW DOWN!!!, and he’s like: Basma, don’t worry, plenty more where they came from. Like cockroaches. And even though this is EXTREMELY racist, he meant it innocently (plus local mentality is pretty racist, isn't it?) and I’m laughing my head off. But he slows down a liiiittttle. Soon we come upon a bunch of local girls, like 5 or 6 years old, playing around. My mom and I are both looking at Ali and wondering if his theory of cockroaches applies to the little girls too, but he grins knowingly, goes on saying whatever he was saying, and slows down a little bit more than he did with the Indians. “Ahhh, so the little local girls get special treatment, huh?" I tell him.
“They’re kids, Basma, what’s wrong with you!" He says, making me look soo bad. I usually smack him in the back of his head when he says things like that, so you can check him for bruises. Then we come upon a few cats messing about having a good time, and some kittens THAT WEREN’T EVEN ON THE ROAD, but just amusing themselves in the pavement, and Ali? He stops the freaking car completely. This is how much he values kittens’ lives. More than little girls. Way more than hard-working Indians. Kittens, in Ali’s world, rule. He stops the car COMPLETELY, gets out, shoos them far far FAR off the road and the pavement and anywhere remotely close to where he was driving, gets back in, and starts driving. My mom and I could NOT stop laughing. He really needs to get his priorities straight.