Born a Crime

Then one of the cops came back and
called the Hulk over; they needed
information from him. The cop
started asking him a bunch of
questions, but the guy kept shaking
his head and saying he didn’t
understand. The cop was speaking
Zulu. The Hulk was speaking
Tsonga. Black person to black
person, and neither could
understand the other—the Tower of
Babel. Few people in South Africa
speak Tsonga, but since my
stepfather was Tsonga I had picked
it up along the way. I overheard the
cop and the other guy going back
and forth with nothing getting