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,
也许他们过度夸大了自身的风格， 因为他们觉得自己是被人们 看作是不文明的， 并且，他们还把他们那一代人的态度 或焦虑传到了下一代——我们的身上。 以致于当我渐渐长大时， 只要在电视新闻或者收音机上 出现关于一个黑人犯罪 的报道， 比如行凶抢劫，谋杀，盗窃等， 我们和父母都会一同避开，