Saciido Shaie: ‘America needed me, and I needed America’ [City Pages]
"One day, when Saciido Shaie and her daughter were driving in downtown Minneapolis, three men in a truck drove by. There was an air-splitting blat as they honked the horn. Then came a yell that Shaie still remembers. 'Go back to your country. We don't need you here.' They drove off, but to say nothing more came of that moment would be to discount every other moment when somebody made her feel like she didn't belong. Shaie is originally from Somalia. There, her family had been rich. They had...