I thought about how, when we moved to a new neighborhood in Chicago with one other Indian family, that family had a cross burned on its lawn.

我想过，当我们和另一个印度家庭搬到芝加哥的一个新社区时， 那个家庭的草坪上有一个十字架被烧毁了。

Ms. Herring said she had often thought about a particular red glow from her childhood: what she saw when a cross burned outside her Georgia home when she was 9.

赫林女士说，她经常会想起童年时看到的一种特别的红光：那是她9岁时在佐治亚州的家外看到十字架燃烧发出的光。