“Do you have a report card to show that you had been in school?” I would say, “No, but I know I have been in school.” And then my mother would interject to explain the context. I would sit there thinking to myself, What do these school principals think? Do they really think that when there’s a war in your village or when your town is attacked, and people are gunned down in front of you, and you’re running for your life, you’re thinking to yourself, “You know, I must take my report card and put it in the back of my pocket.”
Mundane American tasks instead of thinking where people came from
