This mother left Afghanistan just before the Taliban took over. What was her message to students at BYU?

LZ Granderson: Siawash and his mother boarded the last U.S.-bound flight out of Kabul as the Taliban descended on Afghanistan in August 2021 .

LZ: We need to move past the notion that people coming from war-torn nations with inherent baggage are defined by the governments that oppress them.

Granderson says we should not be defined by how we treat refugees who reach out for help.