Mitch Landrieu - Address on Removing Confederate Monuments (text-audio-video | mitchlandrieuconfederatemonuments

On the Removal of Four Confederate Monuments in New Orleans

关于新奥尔良四座邦联纪念碑的拆除

delivered 19 May 2017, Gallier Hall, New Orleans, Louisiana

2017 年 5 月 19 日交付，路易斯安那州新奥尔良加利尔大厅

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Good afternoon, everybody.

大家下午好。

Thank you all for joining me today.

感谢大家今天加入我。

To my lovely wife, my first lady -- couple of days, we're going to be married 30 years.

致我可爱的妻子，我的第一夫人——再过几天，我们就要结婚 30 年了。

To the City Council members; to Sergeant Kimera Woods -- that was a beautiful rendition, didn't you think?

致市议会成员；献给基梅拉·伍兹中士——那是一段美妙的演绎，你不觉得吗？

Really nice.

真的很好。

Representing the men and women of the New Orleans Police Department, Homeland Security, EMS -- all of the individuals who have done really hard work over the last month under very difficult circumstances, and so Chief Harrison and Tim McConnell, and our entire team at City Hall who are here today; and particularly Glenda and Mary, who are sitting at the front desk of City Hall that has received all the warm blessings.

代表新奥尔良警察局、国土安全部、紧急医疗救助部门的全体人员，所有在过去一个月里在非常困难的情况下辛勤工作的人，还有哈里森局长和蒂姆·麦康奈尔，以及今天在座的市政厅的整个团队；尤其是格伦达和玛丽，坐在市政厅前台的她们受到了大家的热烈祝福。

I think they're watching right now but before I came over here I asked Mary how we were doing.

我想他们现在正在观看，但在我来这里之前我问玛丽我们过得怎么样。

She said, "Well chief," she said, "they called you everything but a child of God."

她说，“好吧，酋长，”她说，“他们称你为上帝的孩子。”

To Matt Bailey and to U.S. Marine Corps retired Lieutenant Colonel Richard Westmoreland, who have been there every step of the way on behalf of the United States of America.

感谢马特·贝利和美国海军陆战队退役中校理查德·威斯特摩兰，他们代表美利坚合众国一路走来。

Thank you for being strong.

谢谢你坚强。

Pastor Anglim , and to all the ministers who prayed and gave us strength.

安格利姆牧师，以及所有为我们祈祷并给予我们力量的牧师。

To Keith Plessy, from the Plessy family, who brings a history from where it was to where it is today, and along with the Ferguson family who are not here but have demonstrated what reconciliation really looks like .

感谢来自普莱西家族的基思·普莱西，他将一段历史从过去带到了今天；还有弗格森家族，他们虽然不在场，但已经展示了和解的真正面貌。

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And to the New Orleans Freedom Riders -- Diane Nash couldn't make it today, but Claude Reese is here, who was -- give him a round of applause.

新奥尔良自由骑士队——黛安·纳什今天没能到场，但克劳德·里斯来了——给他热烈的掌声。

The soul of our beloved city is rooted in a history that has evolved over thousands of years; rooted in a diverse people who have been here together every step of the way through good and through bad.

我们心爱的城市的灵魂植根于数千年演变的历史；植根于多元化的人们之中，无论顺境还是逆境，他们都在一起走过了每一步。

It is the history, our history, that holds in its heart the stories of Native Americans -- the Choctaw, the Nation, the Chitimacha; Hernando de Soto , Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle , the Acadians , the Islenos , the enslaved people of Senegambia , free people of color , the Haitians, the Germans, both empires of France and Spain; the Italian[s], the Irish, the Cubans, the south and central Americans, the Vietnamese, and so many more.

正是历史，我们的历史，在其核心中蕴藏着美洲原住民的故事——乔克托人、国家、奇蒂马查人；埃尔南多·德·索托、罗伯特·卡维利尔、德拉萨尔先生、阿卡迪亚人、伊斯莱诺人、塞内冈比亚的奴隶、有色人种自由人、海地人、德国人、法国和西班牙帝国；意大利人、爱尔兰人、古巴人、南美洲和中美洲人、越南人等等。

You see, New Orleans is truly a city of many nations, a melting pot, a bubbling cauldron of many cultures.

你看，新奥尔良确实是一个多民族的城市，一个熔炉，一个多种文化的沸腾大锅。

There is no other place quite like it in the world that so eloquently exemplifies the uniquely American motto: E pluribus unum -- Out of many we are one.

世界上没有任何其他地方能像它这样雄辩地体现出美国独特的座右铭：E pluribus unum——众志成城。

But there are also other truths about our city that we must confront.

但我们还必须面对关于我们城市的其他真相。

New Orleans was one of America�s largest slave markets, a port where hundreds of thousands of souls were bought, sold, and shipped up the Mississippi River to lives of forced labor, of misery, of rape, and of torture.

新奥尔良是美国最大的奴隶市场之一，是一个港口，成千上万的灵魂被买卖，然后沿密西西比河运上密西西比河，过着强迫劳动、痛苦、强奸和酷刑的生活。

America was a place where nearly 4,000 of our fellow American citizens were lynched, 540 in Louisiana alone; where our courts enshrined "separate but equal," where Freedom Riders were beaten to a bloody pulp.

在美国，近 4,000 名美国同胞被私刑处决，仅路易斯安那州就有 540 人；我们的法庭奉行“隔离但平等”，自由乘车者被打得血肉模糊。

So when people say to me that the monuments in question are history, well what I just described to you is our history as well, and it is a searing truth.

因此，当人们对我说这些古迹是历史时，我刚才向你们描述的也是我们的历史，这是一个残酷的事实。

And it immediately begs the question, why there are no slave ship monuments, no prominent markers on public land to remember the lynchings or the slave blocks; nothing to remember this long chapter of our lives of the pain, of sacrifice, of shame -- all of it happening on the soil of New Orleans.

它立即引出了一个问题，为什么没有奴隶船纪念碑，为什么公共土地上没有显着的标记来纪念私刑或奴隶区？没有什么值得记住我们​​生命中这一漫长的篇章，充满了痛苦、牺牲和羞耻——所有这一切都发生在新奥尔良的土地上。

So for those self-appointed defenders of history and the monuments, they are eerily silent on what amounts to historical malfeasance, a lie by omission.

因此，对于那些自封的历史和古迹的捍卫者来说，他们对历史上的渎职、遗漏的谎言却出奇地保持沉默。

There is a difference, you see, between remembrance of history and the reverence of it.

你看，纪念历史和尊敬历史是有区别的。

For America [and] New Orleans, it has been a long and winding road, marked by tragedy and triumph.

对于美国和新奥尔良来说，这是一条漫长而曲折的道路，充满了悲剧和胜利。

But we cannot be afraid of the truth.

但我们不能害怕真相。

As President George W.

作为总统乔治·W.

Bush said at the -- at the dedication ceremony for the National Museum of African American History and Culture (and I quote): �A great nation does not hide its history.

布什在国家非裔美国人历史和文化博物馆落成典礼上说（我引用）：“一个伟大的国家不会隐藏自己的历史。

It faces its flaws and" it "corrects them.�

它正视其缺陷并“它”纠正它们。

So today I want to speak about why we chose to remove these four monuments to the Lost Cause of the Confederacy , but also how and why this process can move us towards healing and understanding each other.

所以今天我想谈谈为什么我们选择拆除这四座联邦失败事业的纪念碑，以及这个过程如何以及为什么能够使我们走向治愈和相互理解。

The historic record is clear: Robert E.

历史记录很清楚：Robert E.

Lee , Jeff[erson] Davis , P.G.T.

李，杰夫·戴维斯，P.G.T.

Beauregard statu[es] were not erected to just honor these men, but as part of the movement which became known as The Cult of the Lost Cause.

博勒加德雕像的建立不仅仅是为了纪念这些人，而是作为后来被称为“迷失事业崇拜”运动的一部分。

This "cult" had one goal and one goal only: through monuments and through other means to rewrite history, to hide the truth, which is that the Confederacy was on the wrong side of humanity.

这个“邪教”只有一个目标，而且只有一个目标：通过纪念碑和其他方式改写历史，掩盖真相，即联邦站在人类的错误一边。

First erected 166 years after the founding of our city, 19 years after the Civil War, these monuments that we took down were meant to rebrand the history of our city and the ideals of the Confederacy.

我们拆除这些纪念碑是在我们城市成立 166 年之后，即南北战争结束 19 年之后首次竖立的，我们拆除这些纪念碑的目的是为了重塑我们城市的历史和南部邦联的理想。

It is self-evident that these men did not fight for the United States of America; they fought against it.

不言而喻，这些人并不是为美利坚合众国而战；他们是为美利坚合众国而战。他们与之抗争。

They may have been warriors, but in this cause they were not patriots.

他们可能是战士，但在这个事业上他们不是爱国者。

These statu[es] are not just stone and metal.

这些雕像不仅仅是石头和金属。

They're not just innocent remembrances of a benign history.

它们不仅仅是对美好历史的纯真回忆。

These monuments celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy: ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, ignoring the terror that it actually stood for.

这些纪念碑颂扬的是一个虚构的、经过净化的邦联：无视死亡、无视奴役、无视它实际上代表的恐怖。

And after the Civil War, these monuments were part of that terrorism as much as burning cross on someone�s lawn.

内战结束后，这些纪念碑就像在某人的草坪上燃烧十字架一样，成为恐怖主义的一部分。

They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.

它们的竖立是有目的的，目的是向所有行走在它们阴影下的人传递一个强烈的信息：谁仍在掌管这座城市。

Now, should you have any doubt about the true goals of the Confederacy, in the very weeks before the war broke out, the Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens, made it very clear that the Confederate cause was about maintaining slavery and white supremacy.

现在，如果你对南部邦联的真正目标有任何疑问，在战争爆发前几周，南部邦联副总统亚历山大·斯蒂芬斯就明确表示，南部邦联的事业是为了维持奴隶制和白人至上。

In his now famous " Cornerstone speech ," he said that the Confederacy�s

在他现在著名的“基石演讲”中，他说南部邦联的

corner-stone rests, upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to a superior race -- is his natural and his normal condition.

基石建立在伟大的真理之上，即黑人与白人不同。奴隶制——服从一个优越种族——是他的自然状态和正常状态。

This, our new government --

这，我们的新政府——

-- is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

——这是世界历史上第一个基于这一伟大的物理、哲学和道德真理的理论。

Now, with these shocking words still ringing in your ears, I want to try to gently peel your hands from the grip on this false narrative of our history that I think weakens us and make straight a wrong turn that we made many years ago, so we can more closely connect with the integrity to the founding principles of our nation and forge a clearer, straighter path towards a better city and towards a more perfect union.

现在，这些令人震惊的话语仍然在你们耳边响起，我想试着轻轻地把你们的手从这种对我们历史的错误叙述中抽离出来，我认为这种叙述削弱了我们的力量，并让我们走上了多年前的错误转向，这样我们就可以更紧密地结合我们国家的建国原则的完整性，并为建设更好的城市和更完美的联邦开辟一条更清晰、更直的道路。

Now, last year President Barack Obama echoed these sentiments about the need to contextualize and to remember all of our history.

现在，去年巴拉克·奥巴马总统回应了这些观点，即需要结合实际情况并记住我们所有的历史。

He recalled a single piece of stone, a slave auction block engraved with a marker commemorating a single moment in 1830 when Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay stood and spoke from it.

他回忆起一块石头，一块奴隶拍卖块，上面刻有标记，纪念 1830 年安德鲁·杰克逊和亨利·克莱站在那里讲话的一个时刻。

Consider what this artifact tells us about history....On a stone where day after day, for years, men and women...

想想这件文物告诉我们的历史……在一块石头上，日复一日，多年来，男人和女人……

bound and bought and sold, and bid like cattle; on a stone worn down by the tragedy of over a thousand bare feet.

像牛一样捆绑、买卖、出价；在一块因一千多赤脚的悲剧而磨损的石头上。

For a long time the only thing we considered important, the singular thing we chose to commemorate as "history" with a plaque were the unmemorable speeches of two powerful men.

很长一段时间以来，我们唯一认为重要的事情，我们选择用一块牌匾作为“历史”来纪念的唯一事情就是两个有权势的人的令人难忘的演讲。

A piece of stone -- one stone.

一块石头——一块石头。

Both stories, history.

两个故事，历史。

One story told, one story forgotten -- or maybe even purposefully ignored.

一个故事被讲述，一个故事被遗忘——或者甚至可能被故意忽视。

Now, as clear as it is for me today, for a long time, even though I grew up in one of New Orleans' most diverse neighborhoods, even with my family's proud history of fighting for civil rights, I must have passed by these monuments thousands of times without giving them a second thought.

现在，就像今天对我来说很清楚的那样，在很长一段时间里，尽管我在新奥尔良最多元化的社区之一长大，尽管我的家族有着为民权而奋斗的自豪历史，但我一定已经数千次路过这些纪念碑，而没有再考虑过它们。

So I'm not judging anybody.

所以我不会评判任何人。

I am not judging people.

我不是在评判别人。

We all take our own journey on race.

我们都在比赛中踏上自己的旅程。

I just hope people listen like I did when my dear friend Wynton Marsalis helped me see the truth.

我只是希望人们像我一样倾听，当我亲爱的朋友温顿·马萨利斯帮助我看到真相时。

He asked me to think about all the people who have left New Orleans because of our exclusionary attitudes.

他让我想想所有因为我们的排斥态度而离开新奥尔良的人。

Another friend asked me to consider these four monuments from the perspective of an African American mother or father trying to explain to their fifth grade daughter why Robert E.

另一位朋友让我从非裔美国母亲或父亲的角度来考虑这四个纪念碑，试图向他们五年级的女儿解释为什么罗伯特·E·

Lee sat atop of our city.

李坐在我们城市的顶端。

Can you do it?

你能做到吗？

Can you do it?

你能做到吗？

Can you look into the eyes of this young girl and convince her that Robert E.

你能看着这个年轻女孩的眼睛，让她相信 Robert E.

Lee is there to encourage her?

李是来鼓励她的吗？

Do you think she feels inspired and hopeful by that story?

你认为她会受到这个故事的启发和希望吗？

Do these monuments help her see her future with limitless potential?

这些纪念碑是否帮助她看到了自己无限潜力的未来？

Have you ever thought, have you every thought that if her potential is limited, yours and my potential [is limited] as well?

你有没有想过，你有没有想过，如果她的潜力是有限的，那么你我的潜力也是有限的吗？

We all know the answers to these very simple questions.

我们都知道这些非常简单问题的答案。

When you look into this child�s eyes is the moment when the searing truth comes into focus.

当你看着这个孩子的眼睛时，灼热的真相就会成为焦点。

This is the moment when we know what we must do, when we know what is right.

这是我们知道我们必须做什么、什么是正确的时刻。

We can not walk away from this truth.

我们不能回避这个事实。

Now, I knew that taking down the monuments was going to be tough, but you elected me to do the right thing, not the easy thing, and this is what that looks like.

现在，我知道拆除纪念碑将会很困难，但你们选择我做正确的事，而不是容易的事，这就是看起来的样子。

So relocating these monuments is not about taking something away from someone else.

因此，搬迁这些纪念碑并不是要从别人那里夺走一些东西。

This is not about politics.

这与政治无关。

It's not about blame.

这不是责备的问题。

It's not about retaliation.

这不是报复。

This is not about a na�ve quest to solve all of our problems at once.

这并不是天真地寻求立即解决我们所有的问题。

This is, however, about showing the whole world that we as a city, that we as a people are able to acknowledge, to understand, to reconcile, and more importantly, choose a better future for ourselves, making straight what has been crooked and making right what was wrong.

然而，这是为了向全世界表明，我们作为一个城市，作为一个民族，我们能够承认、理解、和解，更重要的是，为自己选择一个更好的未来，纠正弯曲的事物，纠正错误的事物。

Otherwise, we will continue to pay a price with discord, with division, and yeah, violence.

否则，我们将继续付出不和谐、分裂和暴力的代价。

To literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in our mo[st] prominent places [of] honor is an inaccurate recitation of our full past.

从字面上把邦联放在我们最显着的荣誉位置上是对我们完整过去的不准确的叙述。

It is an affront to our present.

这是对我们现在的侮辱。

And it is a bad prescription for our future.

这对我们的未来来说是一个糟糕的处方。

History cannot be changed.

历史无法改变。

It cannot be moved like a statue.

它不能像雕像一样移动。

What is done is done.

该做的就做了。

The Civil War is over.

内战结束了。

The Confederacy lost -- and we're better for it.

联邦失败了——而我们因此而变得更好。

Surely we are far enough removed from this dark time to acknowledge that the cause of the Confederacy was wrong.

当然，我们已经远离这个黑暗时代，足以承认邦联的事业是错误的。

And in the second decade of the 21st century, asking African Americans -- or anyone else for that matter -- to drive by property that they own; occupied by reverential statu[es] of men who fought to destroy the country and deny that person�s humanity seems perverse.

在 21 世纪的第二个十年，要求非裔美国人 - 或任何其他人 - 开车通过他们拥有的财产；被那些为摧毁国家而战的人们的崇敬雕像所占据，并否认这个人的人性似乎是反常的。

It seems absurd.

这似乎很荒谬。

Century-old wounds are still raw because, you see, they never healed right in the first place.

百年历史的伤口仍然未愈合，因为，你看，它们从一开始就从未愈合过。

So here is the essential truth: We are better together than we are apart.

所以这是一个基本的事实：我们在一起比分开更好。

Indivisibility is our essence.

不可分割性是我们的本质。

Isn�t this the gift that we, the people of New Orleans, have given to the world?

这不是我们新奥尔良人民送给世界的礼物吗？

We radiate beauty and grace -- in our food, in our music, in our architecture, in our joy of life, in our celebration of death; in everything that we do.

我们散发着美丽和优雅——在我们的食物中，在我们的音乐中，在我们的建筑中，在我们生活的欢乐中，在我们对死亡的庆祝中；在我们所做的一切事情中。

We gave the world this funky thing called jazz.

我们给世界带来了一种时髦的东西，叫做爵士乐。

It is the most uniquely American art form that is developed across the ages and from different cultures.

它是跨时代、跨文化发展起来的最独特的美国艺术形式。

Think about second lines ; think about Mardi Gras ; think about muffaletta ; think about the Saints; think about gumbo; think about red beans and rice.

考虑第二行；想想狂欢节；想想松饼；想想圣徒；想想浓汤；想想红豆和大米。

By God, just think: All we hold dear is created by throwing everything in the pot -- creating, producing something better; everything, everything a product of our historic diversity.

天啊，想想吧：我们所珍视的一切都是通过把所有东西都扔进锅里而创造出来的——创造、生产出更好的东西；一切，一切都是我们历史多样性的产物。

We are proof that out of many we are one -- and better for it.

我们证明，我们是众多人中的一员，并且因此而变得更好。

Out of many we are one -- and we really do love it.

我们是其中的一员——而且我们真的很喜欢它。

And yet, and yet we still seem to find so many excuses to not do the right thing.

然而，我们似乎仍然找到很多借口不做正确的事。

President Bush�s words once again: �A great nation does not hide its history.

布什总统再次说过：“一个伟大的国家不会隐藏自己的历史。”

It faces its flaws and corrects them.� We forget, we deny how much we really depend on each other, how much we really need each other.

它正视它的缺陷并纠正它们。我们忘记了，我们否认我们真正相互依赖，我们真正需要彼此。

We justify our silence and inaction by manufacturing noble causes that marinate in historic denial.

我们通过制造否认历史的崇高事业来证明我们的沉默和不作为是正当的。

We still find a way to say �wait, wait, wait, not so fast.� Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, �wait has almost always meant never.� 2

我们仍然想办法说“等等，等等，等等，别那么快。”马丁·路德·金博士说，“等待几乎总是意味着永远不会。”2

We can not wait any longer.

我们不能再等了。

We need to change.

我们需要改变。

And we need to change now.

我们现在需要改变。

No more waiting.

无需再等待。

This is not just about statu[es], this is about attitudes; and it's about behaviors as well.

这不仅仅是地位的问题，更是态度的问题；这也与行为有关。

If we take down these statu[es] and don�t change to become a more open and inclusive society, then all of this would have all been in vain.

如果我们拆除这些雕像，而不改变成为一个更加开放和包容的社会，那么所有这一切都将是徒劳的。

While some have driven by these statu[es] every day and either revered their beauty or failed to see them at all, many of our neighbors and our fellow Americans see them very, very clearly.

虽然有些人每天都会经过这些雕像，要么欣赏它们的美丽，要么根本没有看到它们，但我们的许多邻居和我们的美国同胞却非常非常清楚地看到它们。

Many are painfully aware of their long shadows, their presence cast not only literally but figuratively.

许多人痛苦地意识到他们的长长的影子，他们的存在不仅是字面上的，而且是象征性的。

And they clearly receive the message that the Confederacy and the cult of the Lost Cause intended to deliver.

他们清楚地收到了联邦和“失败事业”邪教想要传达的信息。

Earlier this week, as the cult of the Lost Cause statu[e] P.G.T Beauregard came down, world renowned musician Terence Blanchard , who's with us, stood watch with his wife Robin and their two beautiful daughters at their side.

本周早些时候，随着对“Lost Cause”雕像 P.G.T Beauregard 的狂热崇拜被推倒，与我们在一起的世界著名音乐家特伦斯·布兰查德 (Terence Blanchard) 与他的妻子罗宾 (Robin) 和两个漂亮的女儿站在一边观看。

You see, Terence went to school on the edge of City Park, at a school named after one of America�s great heroes and patriots, John F.

你看，特伦斯在城市公园边缘上学，这是一所以美国伟大英雄和爱国者之一约翰·F·肯尼迪命名的学校。

Kennedy.

肯尼迪.

But to get there he had to pass by the monument to a man who fought to deny his humanity.

但为了到达那里，他必须经过一个为否认人性而奋斗的人的纪念碑。

And he said (quote):

他说（引述）：

I�ve never looked at them as a source of pride.

我从来没有把他们视为骄傲的源泉。

It always made me feel as if they were put there by people who don�t respect us.

这总是让我觉得他们是被不尊重我们的人放在那里的。

This is something I never thought I�d see in my lifetime.

这是我一生中从未想过会看到的事情。

It�s a sign that the world is changing.

这是世界正在发生变化的迹象。

Yes, Terence, it is, and it is long overdue.

是的，特伦斯，确实如此，而且早就该这么做了。

Now is the time to send a new message to the next generation of New Orleanians, a message about the future, about the next 300 years and beyond: Let us not miss this opportunity New Orleans and let us help the rest of the America do the same, because now -- see, now -- is the time for choosing.

现在是向下一代新奥尔良人发出新信息的时候了，这是一个关于未来、关于未来 300 年及以后的信息：让我们不要错过新奥尔良的这个机会，让我们帮助美国其他地区也这样做，因为现在——看，现在——是做出选择的时候了。

Now is the time to actually make this city the city we should have always been had we gotten it right the first time.

现在是时候真正让这座城市成为我们应该一直成为的城市了，如果我们第一次做对的话。

But, this is a good place to stop for a moment and ask ourselves at this point in our history -- after Katrina , after Rita , after Ike , after Gustav , after the national recession, after the BP oil spill catastrophe, after the tornado -- if presented with an opportunity to build monuments that told our story or curate these particular spaces � would these be the monuments that we want the world to see?

但是，这是一个停下来思考一下的好地方，在我们历史的这个时刻——在卡特里娜飓风之后，在丽塔之后，在艾克之后，在古斯塔夫之后，在国家经济衰退之后，在英国石油公司漏油灾难之后，在龙卷风之后——如果有机会建造纪念碑来讲述我们的故事或策划这些特定的空间——这些纪念碑是我们希望世界看到的吗？

Is this really our story?

这真的是我们的故事吗？

You see, we have not erased history.

你看，我们并没有抹去历史。

We're becoming part of the city�s history by righting the wrong image these monuments represent and crafting a better, more complete future for all of our children, and for future generations.

通过纠正这些纪念碑所代表的错误形象，并为我们所有的孩子和子孙后代创造一个更美好、更完整的未来，我们正在成为这座城市历史的一部分。

And unlike when these Confederate monuments were erected as symbols of white supremacy, we now have a chance to create not only new symbols, but to do it together, as one people.

与这些南部邦联纪念碑作为白人至上的象征而建立时不同，我们现在不仅有机会创造新的象征，而且有机会作为一个民族一起创造新的象征。

In our blessed land, we come to the table of democracy as equals.

在我们这片神圣的土地上，我们平等地来到民主的餐桌前。

We have to reaffirm our commitment to a future where each citizen is guaranteed the uniquely American gifts of "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness." 3 That is what really makes America great and today it's more important than ever to hold fast to these values and together say a self-evident truth that out of many we are one.

我们必须重申我们对未来的承诺，确保每个公民都能获得美国独有的“生命、自由和追求幸福”的礼物。 3 这才是美国真正伟大的原因，今天比以往任何时候都更加重要的是要坚守这些价值观，并共同说出一个不言而喻的真理：我们是众多价值观中的一员。

That is why we reclaim these spaces for the United States of America, because we are one nation, not two; indivisible with liberty and justice for all, not some.

这就是为什么我们为美利坚合众国收回这些空间，因为我们是一个国家，而不是两个国家；与所有人而非某些人的自由和正义不可分割。

We all are part of one nation and pledge allegiance to one flag, the flag of the United States of America.

我们都是一个国家的一部分，宣誓效忠一面国旗，即美利坚合众国的国旗。

And here -- And here's the kicker: New Orleanians are in it all of the way.

关键是：新奥尔良人自始至终都参与其中。

It is in this union, it is in this truth that real patriotism is rooted and it flourishes.

正是在这个联盟中，正是在这个真理中，真正的爱国主义扎根并蓬勃发展。

Instead of revering a four-year brief historical aberration that was called the Confederacy, we can celebrate all 300 years of our rich, diverse history as a place named New Orleans and set the tone for the next 300 years.

我们不必缅怀为期四年的短暂历史偏差，即所谓的南部邦联，而是可以庆祝我们作为一个名为新奥尔良的地方所拥有的 300 年丰富、多样化的历史，并为未来 300 年定下基调。

After decades of public debate, of anger, of anxiety, of anticipation, of humiliation and of frustration; after public hearings and approvals from three separate community boards and commissions; after two robust public hearings and a 6-1 vote by our duly-elected City Council; after review by 13 different federal and state judges: The full weight of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government has been brought to bear and that is why these monuments are coming down in accordance with the law and will be removed.

经过数十年的公开辩论，充满愤怒、焦虑、期待、羞辱和沮丧；经过公开听证会并获得三个独立社区委员会和委员会的批准后；经过两次强有力的公开听证会和我们正式选出的市议会以 6 比 1 的投票结果；经过 13 名不同的联邦和州法官审查后：政府立法、行政和司法部门的全部权力已发挥作用，这就是为什么这些纪念碑将依法拆除并被拆除。

So, now is the time to come together to heal and to focus on our larger task -- not only building new symbols, but making this city a beautiful manifestation of what is possible and what we as a people can become.

因此，现在是我们齐心协力治愈伤痛并专注于我们更大任务的时候了——不仅要建造新的标志，还要让这座城市成为可能性和我们作为一个民族能够成为什么样子的美丽体现。

And so, let us remember the once-exiled, imprisoned, and universally loved now Nelson Mandela and what he said after apartheid :

因此，让我们记住曾经被流放、被监禁、现在受到普遍爱戴的纳尔逊·曼德拉以及他在种族隔离后所说的话：

If the pain has often been unbearable and the revelations shocking to all of us, it is because they indeed bring us the beginnings of a common understanding of what happened and a steady restoration of th[e] nation�s humanity.

如果说痛苦常常难以忍受，揭露的真相让我们所有人感到震惊，那是因为它们确实让我们开始对所发生的事情达成共识，并稳步恢复国家人性。

So before we part let us again state clearly for all to hear: The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity.

因此，在我们分手之前，让我们再次向所有人明确声明：南部邦联站在了历史和人类的错误一边。

It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to slavery.

它试图分裂我们的国家并使我们的美国同胞遭受奴役。

This is a history we should never forget and one that we should never, ever again put on a pedestal to be revered.

这是一段我们永远不应该忘记的历史，也是我们永远不应该再次崇拜的历史。

As a community, we must recognize the significance of removing New Orleans� Confederate monuments.

作为一个社区，我们必须认识到拆除新奥尔良南部邦联纪念碑的重要性。

It is our acknowledgment that now is a time to take stock of, and then move past, a painful part of our history.

我们承认，现在是时候回顾并克服我们历史上的痛苦部分了。

Anything less would render generations of courageous struggle and soul-searching a truly lost cause.

如果做不到这一点，几代人的勇敢斗争和自我反省就会成为真正失败的事业。

Anything less would fall short of the immortal words of our greatest President, Abraham Lincoln, who, with an open heart and a clarity of purpose, calls on us today across the ages to unite as one people when he said :

如果做不到这一点，就会辜负我们最伟大的总统亚伯拉罕·林肯的不朽名言，他怀着开放的心和明确的目标，今天呼吁我们各个时代团结起来，成为一个民族，他说：

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in [the] right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation�s wounds...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

对任何人都没有恶意；为所有人提供慈善；坚定正义，正如上帝赋予我们看到正义一样，让我们​​努力完成我们正在从事的工作；包扎国家的伤口……尽一切努力实现和珍惜我们之间以及与所有国家的公正、持久的和平。

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God bless you all.

上帝保佑你们大家。

God bless New Orleans.

上帝保佑新奥尔良。

And God bless the United States of America.

上帝保佑美利坚合众国。

Book/CDs by Michael E.

Michael E. 的书籍/CD

Eidenmuller, Published by McGraw-Hill (2008) 1 See also Plessy v Ferguson for some legal/political/cultural context 2 King, M.L.

Eidenmuller，McGraw-Hill 出版 (2008) 1 另请参阅 Plessy v Ferguson 案，了解一些法律/政治/文化背景 2 King, M.L.

(1963).

（1963）。

Letter From a Birmingham Jail .

来自伯明翰监狱的信。

3 Quotation from the United States Declaration of Independence 4 Very close approximation of official quotation Audio Note : Culled together from several sources, the audio available above in the html5 player represents the complete, unedited remarks delivered on this occasion.

3 引自《美国独立宣言》 4 非常接近官方引文 音频说明：上面的 html5 播放器中提供的音频是从多个来源中挑选出来的，代表了这次发表的完整的、未经编辑的言论。

Running time: 24:00.

运行时间：24:00。

Page Updated : 12/28/24 U.S. Copyright Status : Text = Used with permission.

页面更新日期：24 年 12 月 28 日美国版权状态：文本 = 经许可使用。

Audio = Uncertain.

音频 = 不确定。

� Copyright 2001-Present.

� 版权所有 2001 年至今。

American Rhetoric.

美国修辞学。

HTML transcription by Michael E.

HTML 转录由 Michael E.

Eidenmuller.

艾登米勒。