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Address at the NAACP on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v.

在全国有色人种协进会布朗诉布朗案 50 周年纪念日上的讲话

Board of Education

教育委员会

delivered 17 May 2004, Constitution Hall, Washington D.C.

2004 年 5 月 17 日在华盛顿特区宪法厅发表

Ladies and gentlemen, I really have to ask you to seriously consider what you�ve heard, and now this is the end of the evening so to speak.

女士们先生们，我真的需要请你们认真考虑一下你们所听到的内容，现在可以说今晚已经结束了。

I heard a prize fight manager say to his fellow who was losing badly, �David, listen to me.

我听到一位职业拳击经理对他输得很惨的同伴说：“大卫，听我说。”

It�s not what�s he�s doing to you.

这不是他对你做的事。

It�s what you�re not doing."

这就是你没有做的事。”

Ladies and gentlemen, these people set -- they opened the doors, they gave us the right, and today, ladies and gentlemen, in our cities and public schools we have 50% drop out.

女士们先生们，这些人打开了大门，他们给了我们权利，今天，女士们先生们，在我们的城市和公立学校，我们有 50% 的辍学者。

In our own neighborhood, we have men in prison.

在我们自己的社区里，有人被关进监狱。

No longer is a person embarrassed because they�re pregnant without a husband.

一个人不再因为没有丈夫而怀孕而感到尴尬。

No longer is a boy considered an embarrassment if he tries to run away from being the father of the unmarried child.

如果一个男孩试图逃避成为未婚孩子的父亲，那么他不再被认为是一种尴尬。

Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower middle economic people are not holding their end in this deal.

女士们先生们，中低经济阶层和中低经济阶层人士在这笔交易中并没有坚持到底。

In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on.

在我们大多数人长大的社区里，养育子女的行为并不存在。

In the old days, you couldn�t hooky school because every drawn shade was an eye.

在过去，你不能逃学，因为每一个画出的阴影都是一只眼睛。

And before your mother got off the bus and to the house, she knew exactly where you had gone, who had gone into the house, and where you got on whatever you had one and where you got it from.

在你妈妈下车回家之前，她清楚地知道你去了哪里，谁进了房子，你从哪里得到了你拥有的东西，以及你从哪里得到的。

Parents don�t know that today.

今天父母不知道这一点。

I�m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.

我说的是那些当他们的儿子穿着橙色西装站在那里时哭泣的人。

Where were you when he was two?

他两岁时你在哪里？

Where were you when he was twelve?

他十二岁时你在哪里？

Where were you when he was eighteen, and how come you don�t know he had a pistol?

他十八岁的时候你在哪里，你怎么不知道他有手枪？

And where is his father, and why don�t you know where he is?

他的父亲在哪里，你为什么不知道他在哪里？

And why doesn�t the father show up to talk to this boy?

为什么父亲不出现和这个男孩说话？

The church is only open on Sunday.

教堂只在周日开放。

And you can�t keep asking Jesus to ask doing things for you.

你不能一直要求耶稣为你做事。

You can�t keep asking that God will find a way.

你不能一直祈求上帝会找到办法。

God is tired of you.

上帝厌倦了你。

God was there when they won all those cases -- fifty in a row.

当他们赢得所有这些案件时——连续五十个案件——上帝就在那里。

That�s where God was because these people were doing something.

那就是上帝所在的地方，因为这些人正在做某事。

And God said, �I�m going to find a way.� I wasn�t there when God said it -- I�m making this up.

上帝说：“我会找到办法。”上帝说这句话时我不在场——这是我编造的。

But it sounds like what God would do.

但这听起来像是上帝会做的事。

We cannot blame white people.

我们不能责怪白人。

White people -- White people don�t live over there.

白人——白人不住在那里。

They close up the shop early.

他们很早就关门了。

The Korean ones still don�t know us as well -- they stay open 24 hours.

韩国人仍然不太了解我们——他们24小时营业。

I�m looking and I see a man named Kenneth Clark, he and his wife Mamie.

我正在寻找，看到一个名叫肯尼思·克拉克的男人，他和他的妻子玛米。

Kenneth�s still alive.

肯尼斯还活着。

I have to apologize to him for these people because Kenneth said it straight.

我必须为这些人向他道歉，因为肯尼思说得很直。

He said you have to strengthen yourselves, and we�ve got to have that black doll.

他说你要增强自己，我们必须拥有那个黑娃娃。

And everybody said it.

每个人都这么说。

Julian Bond said it.

朱利安·邦德这么说过。

Dick Gregory said it.

迪克·格雷戈里说过。

All these lawyers said it.

这些律师都这么说。

And you wouldn�t know that anybody had done a damned thing.

你不会知道有人做了一件该死的事。

Fifty percent drop out rate, I�m telling you, and people in jail, and women having children by five, six different men.

我告诉你，百分之五十的辍学率，还有监狱里的人，以及与五、六个不同男人生孩子的妇女。

Under what excuse?

以什么借口？

I want somebody to love me.

我想要有人爱我。

And as soon as you have it, you forget to parent.

一旦你拥有了它，你就忘记了为人父母。

Grandmother, mother, and great grandmother in the same room, raising children, and the child knows nothing about love or respect of any one of the three of them.

祖母、母亲和曾祖母在同一个房间里抚养孩子，而孩子对他们三人中任何一个的爱和尊重一无所知。

All this child knows is �gimme, gimme, gimme.� These people want to buy the friendship of a child, and the child couldn�t care less.

这个孩子只知道“给我，给我，给我”。这些人想收买孩子的友谊，而孩子却一点也不在乎。

Those of us sitting out here who have gone on to some college or whatever we�ve done, we still fear our parents.

我们这些坐在这里的人，即使已经上过大学，也无论做过什么，我们仍然害怕我们的父母。

And these people are not parenting.

这些人没有为人父母。

They�re buying things for the kid -- $500 sneakers -- for what?

他们为孩子买东西——价值 500 美元的运动鞋——为了什么？

They won�t buy or spend $250 on Hooked on Phonics .

他们不会购买或花费 250 美元购买 Hooked on Phonics。

Kenneth Clark, somewhere in his home in upstate New York -- just looking ahead.

肯尼思·克拉克 (Kenneth Clark) 在纽约州北部的家中某处 — 正在展望未来。

Thank God he doesn�t know what�s going on.

感谢上帝，他不知道发生了什么事。

Thank God.

感谢上帝。

But these people -- the ones up here in the balcony fought so hard.

但这些人——阳台上的人却奋力拼搏。

Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals.

从被监禁者来看，他们不是政治犯。

These are people going around stealing Coca Cola.

这些人到处偷可口可乐。

People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake!

人们因为一块一磅重的蛋糕而后脑勺被枪击！

Then we all run out and are outraged: �The cops shouldn�t have shot him.� What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand?

然后我们都跑了出去，感到愤怒：“警察不应该开枪射杀他。”他手里拿着一磅蛋糕到底在做什么？

I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else.

我和其他人一样渴望一块磅蛋糕。

And I looked at it and I had no money.

我看了看，我没有钱。

And something called parenting said if you get caught with it you�re going to embarrass your mother." Not, "You�re going to get your butt kicked." No. "You�re going to embarrass your mother." "You�re going to embarrass your family." If you knock that girl up, you�re going to have to run away because it�s going to be too embarrassing for your family.

有句话叫“育儿”，如果你被抓到，你会让你的母亲难堪。”不是“你会被踢屁股的”。不。“你会让你妈妈难堪的。” “你会让你的家人难堪。”如果你撞倒了那个女孩，你就必须逃跑，因为这会让你的家人感到尴尬。

In the old days, a girl getting pregnant had to go down South, and then her mother would go down to get her.

以前，女孩怀孕必须南下，然后她的母亲才能下去接她。

But the mother had the baby.

但母亲已经生下了孩子。

I said the mother had the baby.

我说妈妈生了孩子。

The girl didn�t have a baby.

这个女孩没有生孩子。

The mother had the baby in two weeks.

两周后，母亲生下了孩子。

We are not parenting.

我们不是养育孩子。

Ladies and gentlemen, listen to these people.

女士们先生们，请听听这些人的声音。

They are showing you what�s wrong.

他们正在向您展示出了什么问题。

People putting their clothes on backwards.

人们把衣服反着穿。

Isn�t that a sign of something going on wrong?

这难道不是出现问题的征兆吗？

Are you not paying attention?

你不注意吗？

People with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack.

人们帽子反戴，裤子在裂缝周围。

Isn�t that a sign of something or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?

这难道不是某种征兆吗？还是你在等待耶稣拉起裤子？

Isn�t it a sign of something when she�s got her dress all the way up to the crack -- and got all kinds of needles and things going through her body.

当她把衣服弄破了，各种针头和东西穿过她的身体时，这难道不是一个征兆吗？

What part of Africa did this come from?

它来自非洲的哪个地区？

We are not Africans.

我们不是非洲人。

Those people are not Africans; they don�t know a damned thing about Africa.

这些人不是非洲人，而是非洲人。他们对非洲一无所知。

With names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed and all that crap and all of them are in jail.

诸如沙尼夸（Shaniqua）、沙利瓜（Shaligua）、穆罕默德（Mohammed）之类的名字，所有这些人都进了监狱。

(When we give these kinds names to our children, we give them the strength and inspiration in the meaning of those names.

（当我们给孩子起这些名字时，我们就给了他们这些名字含义的力量和灵感。

What�s the point of giving them strong names if there is not parenting and values backing it up).

如果没有养育和价值观的支持，给他们起响亮的名字有什么意义呢）。

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person�s problem.

布朗与教育委员会的斗争不再是白人的问题。

We�ve got to take the neighborhood back.

我们必须夺回社区。

We�ve got to go in there.

我们必须进去。

Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps.

只是忘记告诉您的孩子去和平队。

It�s right around the corner.

它就在拐角处。

It�s standing on the corner.

它站在拐角处。

It can�t speak English.

它不会说英语。

It doesn�t want to speak English.

它不想说英语。

I can�t even talk the way these people talk: �Why you ain�t where you is go ra?� I don�t know who these people are.

我什至无法像这些人那样说话：“为什么你不在你所在的地方？”我不知道这些人是谁。

And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.

我一直责怪那个孩子，直到我听到母亲说话。

Then I heard the father talk.

然后我听到父亲说话。

This is all in the house.

这一切都在房子里。

You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English.

你过去常常在街角用某种方式说话，然后你进了屋就改用英语。

Everybody knows it�s important to speak English except these knuckleheads.

每个人都知道说英语很重要，除了这些傻瓜。

You can�t land a plane with, �Why you ain�t�� You can�t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

你不能带着“为什么你不……”的语气降落飞机，你也不能成为一名口中说出这种废话的医生。

There is no Bible that has that kind of language.

没有一本圣经有这种语言。

Where did these people get the idea that they�re moving ahead on this.

这些人从哪里得到他们正在推进这件事的想法。

Well, they know they�re not; they�re just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you�re just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out.

好吧，他们知道自己不是；他们只是在同一个地方闲逛，五六代人坐在项目中，而你只是应该在那里呆足够长的时间找到工作然后搬出去。

Now, look, I�m telling you.

现在，看，我告诉你。

It�s not what they�re doing to us.

这不是他们对我们做的事。

It�s what we�re not doing.

这正是我们没有做的事情。

50 percent drop out.

50% 的人辍学。

Look, we�re raising our own ingrown immigrants.

看，我们正在抚养我们自己的本土移民。

These people are fighting hard to be ignorant.

这些人正在为无知而努力奋斗。

There�s no English being spoken, and they�re walking and they�re angry.

没有人说英语，他们一边走一边生气。

Oh God, they�re angry and they have pistols and they shoot and they do stupid things.

天哪，他们很生气，他们有手枪，他们开枪，他们做愚蠢的事情。

And after they kill somebody, they don�t have a plan.

当他们杀了人之后，他们没有计划。

Just murder somebody.

只是谋杀某人。

Boom.

繁荣。

Over what?

超过什么？

A pizza?

披萨？

And then run to the poor cousin�s house.

然后跑到可怜的表弟家。

They sit there and the cousin says, �What are you doing here?�

他们坐在那里，表弟说：“你在这里做什么？”

�I just killed somebody; I�ve got to stay here.�

�我刚刚杀了一个人；我必须留在这里。”

Everybody wanted to go to North Carolina.

每个人都想去北卡罗来纳州。

But the police know where you�re going because your cousin has a record.

但警察知道你要去哪里，因为你的表弟有记录。

Five or six different children -- same woman, eight, ten different husbands or whatever.

五六个不同的孩子——同一个女人，八个、十个不同的丈夫或其他什么。

Pretty soon you�re going to have to have DNA cards so you can tell who you�re making love to.

很快你就必须拥有 DNA 卡，这样你才能知道你正在和谁做爱。

You don�t who this is.

你不知道这是谁。

It might be your grandmother.

这可能是你的祖母。

I�m telling you, they�re young enough.

我告诉你，他们还年轻。

Hey, you have a baby when you�re twelve.

嘿，你十二岁时就有孩子了。

Your baby turns thirteen and has a baby, how old are you?

你的孩子十三岁了，生了孩子，你多大了？

Huh?

啊？

Grandmother.

祖母。

By the time you�re twelve, you could have sex with your grandmother, you keep those numbers coming.

当你十二岁的时候，你就可以和你的祖母发生性关系，你不断地增加这些数字。

I�m just predicting.

我只是在预测。

I�m saying Brown versus the Board of Education.

我说的是布朗诉教育委员会。

We�ve got to hit the streets, ladies and gentlemen.

女士们先生们，我们必须走上街头。

I�m winding up, now -- no more applause.

现在我要结束了——不再有掌声。

I�m saying, look at the Black Muslims.

我是说，看看黑人穆斯林。

There are Black Muslims standing on the street corners and they say so forth and so on, and we�re laughing at them because they have bean pies and all that, but you don�t read, �Black Muslim gunned down while chastising drug dealer.� You don�t read that.

有黑人穆斯林站在街角，他们说这样的话，我们嘲笑他们，因为他们有豆馅饼之类的，但你没有读到，“黑人穆斯林在惩罚毒贩时被枪杀。”你没有读到。

They don�t shoot down Black Muslims.

他们不会射杀黑人穆斯林。

You understand me.

你明白我的意思。

Muslims tell you to get out of the neighborhood.

穆斯林告诉你离开邻居。

When you want to clear your neighborhood out, first thing you do is go get the Black Muslims, bean pies and all.

当你想清理你的邻居时，你要做的第一件事就是去买黑人穆斯林、豆馅饼等等。

And your neighborhood is then clear.

然后你的邻居就清楚了。

The police can�t do it.

警察做不到。

I�m telling you Christians, what�s wrong with you?

我告诉你们基督徒，你们怎么了？

Why can�t you hit the streets?

为什么不能上街？

Why can�t you clean it out yourselves?

为什么你不能自己清理掉呢？

It�s our time now, ladies and gentlemen.

女士们先生们，现在是我们的时间了。

It is our time.

这是我们的时代。

And I�ve got good news for you.

我有个好消息要告诉你。

It�s not about money.

这不是钱的问题。

It�s about you doing something ordinarily that we do -- get in somebody else�s business.

这是关于你做一些我们通常做的事情——插手别人的事。

It�s time for you to not accept the language that these people are speaking, which will take them nowhere.

现在是时候不要接受这些人所说的语言了，这对他们没有好处。

What the hell good is Brown v.

布朗诉案件到底有什么好处？

Board of Education if nobody wants it?

教育局如果没人要的话？

What is it with young girls getting after some girl who wants to still remain a virgin.

年轻女孩追求一个仍想保持处女的女孩是怎么回事？

Who are these sick black people and where did they come from and why haven�t they been parented to shut up?

这些生病的黑人是谁？他们从哪里来？为什么他们没有被教育让他们闭嘴？

To go up to girls and try to get a club where �you are nobody....� This is a sickness, ladies and gentlemen, and we are not paying attention to these children.

去接近女孩并试图加入一个“你无名小卒……”的俱乐部，女士们、先生们，这是一种病态，我们没有关注这些孩子。

These are children.

这些都是孩子。

They don�t know anything.

他们什么都不知道。

They don�t have anything.

他们什么都没有。

They�re homeless people.

他们是无家可归的人。

All they know how to do is beg.

他们所知道的就是乞求。

And you give it to them, trying to win their friendship.

你把它给了他们，试图赢得他们的友谊。

And what are they good for?

它们有什么用？

And then they stand there in an orange suit and you drop to your knees: �He didn�t do anything.

然后他们穿着橙色西装站在那里，你跪下：“他什么也没做。”

He didn�t do anything.� Yes, he did do it.

他什么也没做。”是的，他确实做了。

And you need to have an orange suit on, too.

你还需要穿上橙色套装。

So, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for the award -- and giving me an opportunity to speak because, I mean, this is the future, and all of these people who lined up and done -- they�ve got to be wondering what the hell happened.

所以，女士们先生们，我要感谢你们授予我这个奖项，并给我一个发言的机会，因为，我的意思是，这就是未来，所有这些排队并完成任务的人都想知道到底发生了什么。

Brown V.

布朗V.

Board of Education -- these people who marched and were hit in the face with rocks and punched in the face to get an education and we got these knuckleheads walking around who don�t want to learn English.

教育委员会——这些人为了接受教育而游行、被石头打脸、被拳打脚踢，而我们这些傻瓜到处走来走去，他们不想学英语。

I know that you all know it.

我知道你们都知道。

I just want to get you as angry that you ought to be.

我只是想让你生气，你应该生气。

When you walk around the neighborhood and you see this stuff, that stuff�s not funny.

当你在附近走动并看到这些东西时，这些东西并不好笑。

These people are not funny anymore.

这些人不再有趣了。

And that�s not my brother.

那不是我的兄弟。

And that�s not my sister.

那不是我妹妹。

They�re faking and they�re dragging me way down because the state, the city, and all these people have to pick up the tab on them because they don�t want to accept that they have to study to get an education.

他们在假装，他们把我拖下水，因为州、市和所有这些人都必须为他们买单，因为他们不想接受他们必须学习才能接受教育。

We have to begin to build in the neighborhood, have restaurants, have cleaners, have pharmacies, have real estate, have medical buildings instead of trying to rob them all.

我们必须开始在附近建设，拥有餐馆，拥有清洁工，拥有药房，拥有房地产，拥有医疗建筑，而不是试图将它们全部抢劫。

And so, ladies and gentlemen, please, Dorothy Height, where ever she�s sitting, she didn�t do all that stuff so that she could hear somebody say �I can�t stand algebra, I can�t stand�" and �what you is.� It�s horrible.

所以，女士们先生们，请多萝西·海特（Dorothy Height），无论她坐在哪里，她都没有做那些事情，以便听到有人说“我无法忍受代数，我无法忍受”和“你是什么。”这太可怕了。

Basketball players -- multimillionaires can�t write a paragraph.

篮球运动员——千万富翁写不出一个段落。

Football players, multimillionaires, can�t read.

足球运动员、百万富翁都不会读书。

Yes.

是的。

Multimillionaires.

千万富翁。

Well, Brown v.

好吧，布朗诉。

Board of Education, where are we today?

教育局，我们今天在哪里？

It�s there.

它就在那里。

They paved the way.

他们铺平了道路。

What did we do with it?

我们用它做了什么？

The White Man, he�s laughing -- got to be laughing.

白人，他在笑——一定是在笑。

50 percent drop out -- rest of them in prison.

50% 的人辍学——其余的人在监狱里。

You got to tell me that if there was parenting -- help me -- if there was parenting, he wouldn�t have picked up the Coca Cola bottle and walked out with it to get shot in the back of the head.

你必须告诉我，如果有教养——帮帮我——如果有教养，他就不会拿起可口可乐瓶子，拿着它走出去，后脑勺被枪杀。

He wouldn�t have.

他不会的。

Not if he loved his parents.

如果他爱他的父母就不会。

And not if they were parenting!

如果他们是养育孩子的话就不会了！

Not if the father would come home.

如果父亲回家的话就不会。

Not if the boy hadn�t dropped the sperm cell inside of the girl and the girl had said, �No, you have to come back here and be the father of this child.� Not ..�I don�t have to.�

如果男孩没有将精子细胞放入女孩体内并且女孩说：“不，你必须回到这里并成为这个孩子的父亲。”不......“我不必这样做。”

Therefore, you have the pile up of these sweet beautiful things born by nature -- raised by no one.

因此，你拥有这些由大自然诞生的甜蜜美丽事物的堆积——无人养育。

Give them presents.

给他们礼物。

You�re raising pimps.

你在养皮条客。

That�s what a pimp is.

这就是皮条客。

A pimp will act nasty to you so you have to go out and get them something.

皮条客会对你表现得很恶劣，所以你必须出去给他们买点东西。

And then you bring it back and maybe he or she hugs you.

然后你把它带回来，也许他或她会拥抱你。

And that�s why pimp is so famous.

这就是皮条客如此出名的原因。

They�ve got a drink called the �Pimp-something.� You all wonder what that�s about, don�t you?

他们有一种叫做“皮条客之类的东西”的饮料。你们都想知道那是什么，不是吗？

Well, you�re probably going to let Jesus figure it out for you.

好吧，你可能会让耶稣为你解决这个问题。

Well, I�ve got something to tell you about Jesus.

好吧，我有一些关于耶稣的事情要告诉你。

When you go to the church, look at the stained glass things of Jesus.

当你去教堂时，看看耶稣的彩色玻璃制品。

Look at them.

看看他们。

Is Jesus smiling?

耶稣在微笑吗？

Not in one picture.

不在一张照片中。

So, tell your friends.

所以，告诉你的朋友吧。

Let�s try to do something.

让我们尝试做点什么。

Let�s try to make Jesus smile.

让我们努力让耶稣微笑。

Let�s start parenting.

让我们开始养育孩子吧。

Thank you.

谢谢你。

Thank you.

谢谢你。

Book/CDs by Michael E.

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American Rhetoric.

美国修辞学。