The Jackson gaffe, with its Oedipal violence {"I want to cut his nuts out"}, is especially poignant because it goes to the heart of a generational conflict in the black community, concerning what we will say in public and what we say in private. For it has been a point of honor, among the civil rights generation, that any criticism or negative analysis of our community, expressed, as they often are by white politicians, without context, without real empathy or understanding, should not be repeated by a black politician when the white community is listening, even if {especially if} the criticism happens to be true {more than half of all black American children live in single-parent households}.
( Zadie Smith )
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