Maybe they exaggerated their style because they thought that they were not considered to be quite civilized, and they transferred that generational attitude or anxiety onto us, the next generation, so much so that when I was growing up, if ever on the television news or radio a report came up about a black person committing some crime — a mugging, a murder, a burglary — we winced along with our parents, because they were letting the side down.
Tal vez exageraron su estilo porque pensaban que eran considerados ser lo suficiente civilizados, y transmitieron esa actitud generacional o la ansiedad en nosotros, la siguiente generación, tanto es así que mientras crecía, si en las noticias de radio o televisión había noticias sobre una persona negra cometiendo algún delito, —un asalto, un asesinato, un robo— hacíamos una mueca con nuestros padres, porque defraudaban.