"Their generation's name has become..." is (and pardon my insistence) what racist people have said about blacks forever. "Black people's name is synonymous with

"Their generation's name has become..." is (and pardon my insistence) what racist people have said about blacks forever. "Black people's name is synonymous with theft", for instance. That is why those kind of expressions in an abstract and intellectual (hopefully, here in HN) setting do harm.