In the late '40s, my dad -- a Pullman porter, son of a slave -- bought a house in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx, and a few years later he married my mom.
U kasnim četrdesetima, moj otac - željezničar, sin roba - kupio je kuću u Hunts Point-u, kvartu južnog Bronxa, i nekoliko godina kasnije vjenčao se s mojom mamom.