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.
40年代后期，我的父亲——一个帕尔曼酒店的服务生，奴隶的儿子—— 在South Bronx的Hunts Point街区买了房子 几年后，他娶了我的母亲