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.
Možda je njihov stil bio pretjeran jer su mislili da ih drugi ne smatraju civiliziranima, pa su prenijeli taj generacijski stav ili anksioznost na nas,  sljedeću generaciju toliko da dok sam odrastao, ako bi se na TV-u,  u novinama ili na radiju pojavila reportaža o crncima koji počinjavaju zločine -- pljačke, ubojstva, provale -- zgrozili bismo se zajedno s roditeljima jer su ti ljudi ocrnjavali sve nas.