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 | Translate: 翻译：               American History X美国历史X Saturday, November 8th, 2008 星期六， 2008年11月八日 Commondreams | I teach American history to students in eastern Tennessee. |我教美国历史上给学生在东田纳西州。 In the narrative that makes up our nine-month journey, we encounter the broken and bleeding body of the American black dozens of times: crossing the Atlantic, sweating in the southern fields, hanging from the lynching tree, hiding from Jim Crow, dodging night-riders and sheriffs, urban sharecropping in ghettos, rioting after their leaders are shot dead, existing within a system of structural violence, paying never-ending rent to a landlord who keeps jacking up the price and never fixing the leaks in the ceiling.在叙述，使我们的9个月的旅程，我们遇到的破碎和出血机构的美国黑人数十倍：跨越大西洋，出汗的南部油田，挂私刑树，躲避吉姆克劳，逃避夜晚搭车和县行政司法长官，城市佃农在贫民区，骚乱后，其领导人是枪杀，现有的系统结构暴力，支付永无止境的租金的房东让谁顶的价格，决不泄漏固定在天花板上。 Because of this, I have always sensed ghosts in my classroom.正因为如此，我一直感觉到我的鬼教室。 As if small pieces of the souls of black folk still, somehow, were left clinging to these stories.至于如果小件的灵魂仍然黑色民俗，不知何故，留不放这些故事。 I always told these stories – of Emmitt Till, Claudette Colvin, Martin Luther King Jr. - with grit in my teeth and a chill in my bones and an ache that the story somehow find resolution.我总是告诉这些故事-蒂尔的E mmitt，克劳黛考尔文，马丁路德金-与勇气在我的牙齿和寒冷在我的骨头和疼痛，这个故事找到某种决议。 And then Tuesday night.然后星期二晚上。 Spike Lee declared, “This changes everything.’’ Congressman John Lewis – blood brother to Dr. King – called it a “nonviolent revolution.’’ On the streets and radio and television, I found black people doing one of three things: weeping with joy, jumping with joy, or making the statement, “I never thought I’d live to see the day.’’斯派克李宣称， “这改变了一切。 ''众议员约翰刘易斯-血的弟弟金博士-称它是”非暴力革命。' '的街道上，电台和电视台，我发现黑色的人之一，这样做三件事：哭泣与喜悦，喜悦跳跃，或声明， “我从没想过自己会活不到一天。 '' If you ever doubted the concept of white privilege, ask yourself: when was the last time a white man wept with joy because another white man was elected president?如果你有怀疑的概念，白色的特权，问问自己：当最后一次白人与喜悦哭，因为另一个白人当选总统？ It is a new declaration of independence.这是一个新的独立宣言。 Electing Obama begins the declaration of independence from a system of white supremacy, and independence from the illusion of democracy that comes from the top-down.奥巴马选举开始独立宣言从一个系统的白人至上，并独立于民主的幻想，来自自上而下的。 Amy Goodman called President-elect Obama the “organizer in chief.’’ He cut his teeth on democracy in the streets of Chicago, and during his midnight speech on Tuesday, said his victory came brick by brick and block by block.艾米古德曼呼吁当选总统奥巴马的“主要组织者。 ''他将自己关于民主的牙齿在街头的芝加哥，并在他的讲话午夜周二表示，他的胜利来自砖一瓦和块的块。 This is democracy from the bottom up, which is the only version of democracy worth a damn.这是民主的自下而上，这是唯一版本的民主价值该死的。 I understand Obama will sit at the helm of a $700 billion defense budget, obscene in its injustice and madness.我的理解奥巴马将坐于掌舵的7,000亿美元的国防预算，淫秽其不公正和疯狂。 I understand that this in no way removes the cold violence that exists within black America today.我的理解是，这绝不消除冷战暴力，存在于美国黑人今天。 Higher poverty rates, higher infant mortality, higher incarceration rates.高校贫困率，高婴儿死亡率，高监禁率。 Malcolm X had no use for the idea of an American dream, and instead saw it as a nightmare.马尔科姆X没有使用的想法是美国梦，反而认为这是一场噩梦。 And so Obama is not a savior, and certainly not the end of racism as we know it.因此，奥巴马不是救世主，当然还没有结束的种族主义因为我们知道这一点。 But we are closer than we’ve ever been.但是，我们更接近我们所见过的。 In my classroom, I can look out my window and see the bridge where a black man was lynched in 1906 for allegedly raping a white girl.在我的课堂上，我可以从我的窗口和桥梁看到一个黑人男子被私刑于1906年因涉嫌强奸一名白人女孩。 The Supreme Court had issued a stay of execution, but the mob was deaf to Washington, and took him out of his cell and strung him up, shot him and strung him up again as the rope broke.最高法院发出了中止执行，但暴徒是聋哑人到华盛顿，并把他从他的牢房和他发呆，开枪将他和串成他再次绳子断了。 When I tell this story from this day forward, that man’s body will not hang so heavily, and the police dogs will not bite with such rage, and the sheriff’s nightstick will slam with less vengeance, and the bullet will not fire because the guns will no longer work.当我告诉这个故事由着这一天，这名男子的尸体不会搁置如此严重，以及警犬不会咬这种愤怒，和警方将大满贯nightstick少报复，和子弹不会火灾因为枪将不再工作。 “We Shall Overcome’’ evolves to: we are overcoming. “我们克服''演变为：我们正在克服。 We have overcome.我们已经克服。 David Cook is a former journalist with the Chattanooga Times-Free Press and current columnist with the chattanoogan.com.大卫库克是前记者查塔努加时报自由出版社和当前的专栏作家与chattanoogan.com 。 He teaches American Studies and Democracy Studies at Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga, TN and can be reached at dcook7@gmail.com.他教美国研究和民主研究预备学校女生在查塔努加，田纳西州，可达到dcook7@gmail.com 。 Have Your Say: American History X 你说：美国历史X Please read our请仔细阅读我们的 posting guidelines before posting张贴在发布前的指导方针 . 。 Alternatively或者 you can discuss this report here你可以讨论这份报告在这里 . 。 Related News 相关新闻
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