Where in the story does the speaker refrain from making judgments? Explain why you think she is not judgemental.

When the narrator, Mama, learns that her daughter, who she named Dee, now wants to be called Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo, she does not seem to pass judgment on her daughter's decision. Despite Mama's explanation—that Dee was named after her Aunt Dicie, Mama's sister, and Aunt Dicie was named after Grandma Dee, who was named after her own mother, and so on—Wangero feels that her old name connects her to the history of slavery and that taking a new name would distance her from "'the people who oppress [her].'" When Mama asks her to say the name again, Wangero tells her that she does not have to use it if she does not want to, but Mama replies,

"Why shouldn't I? [...] If that's what you want us to call you, we'll call you."

Although Wangero admits that it might seem awkward to call her a new name at first, Mama declares that she'll get used to it and tells her daughter to "Ream it out again." Even though she named her daughter after other respected family members, Mama doesn't take it personally or judge her daughter for wanting to make the change. She's really nonjudgmental and accepting of it. Perhaps she doesn't judge because she's learned not to oppose this daughter; Wangero has always been headstrong, stubborn, even sometimes cruel. It is likely easier to just let her have her way than to argue with her. Wangero seems to count on this dynamic when she requests the quilt later in the story.