I want to write down 'black,' but I don't want to offend anybody, so I write 'African-American,' and it takes so much more time. When they got to the fourth floor, the students were shouting and arguing about someone's suggestion that African-Americans bunched themselves together in the middle with Hispanics around them. They're Panamanian and Dominican. I just don't feel comfortable, people looking at me. It's just a feeling.
Nobody says anything.
It's your basic upbringing. You're going to feel intimidated by people you don't know.