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 | Translate: 翻譯：               American History X美國歷史X Saturday, November 8th, 2008 星期六， 2008年11月八日 Commondreams | I teach American history to students in eastern Tennessee. |我教美國歷史上給學生在東田納西州。 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.在敘述，使我們的9個月的旅程，我們遇到的破碎和出血機構的美國黑人數十倍：跨越大西洋，出汗的南部油田，掛私刑樹，躲避吉姆克勞，逃避夜晚搭車和縣行政司法長官，城市佃農在貧民區，騷亂後，其領導人是槍殺，現有的系統結構暴力，支付永無止境的租金的房東讓誰頂的價格，決不洩漏固定在天花板上。 Because of this, I have always sensed ghosts in my classroom.正因為如此，我一直感覺到我的鬼教室。 As if small pieces of the souls of black folk still, somehow, were left clinging to these stories.至於如果小件的靈魂仍然黑色民俗，不知何故，留不放這些故事。 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.我總是告訴這些故事-蒂爾的E mmitt，克勞黛考爾文，馬丁路德金-與勇氣在我的牙齒和寒冷在我的骨頭和疼痛，這個故事找到某種決議。 And then Tuesday night.然後星期二晚上。 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.’’斯派克李宣稱， “這改變了一切。 ''眾議員約翰劉易斯-血的弟弟金博士-稱它是”非暴力革命。' '的街道上，電台和電視台，我發現黑色的人之一，這樣做三件事：哭泣與喜悅，喜悅跳躍，或聲明， “我從沒想過自己會活不到一天。 '' 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?如果你有懷疑的概念，白色的特權，問問自己：當最後一次白人與喜悅哭，因為另一個白人當選總統？ It is a new declaration of independence.這是一個新的獨立宣言。 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.奧巴馬選舉開始獨立宣言從一個系統的白人至上，並獨立於民主的幻想，來自自上而下的。 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.艾米古德曼呼籲當選總統奧巴馬的“主要組織者。 ''他將自己關於民主的牙齒在街頭的芝加哥，並在他的講話午夜週二表示，他的勝利來自磚一瓦和塊的塊。 This is democracy from the bottom up, which is the only version of democracy worth a damn.這是民主的自下而上，這是唯一版本的民主價值該死的。 I understand Obama will sit at the helm of a $700 billion defense budget, obscene in its injustice and madness.我的理解奧巴馬將坐於掌舵的7,000億美元的國防預算，淫穢其不公正和瘋狂。 I understand that this in no way removes the cold violence that exists within black America today.我的理解是，這絕不消除冷戰暴力，存在於美國黑人今天。 Higher poverty rates, higher infant mortality, higher incarceration rates.高校貧困率，高嬰兒死亡率，高監禁率。 Malcolm X had no use for the idea of an American dream, and instead saw it as a nightmare.馬爾科姆X沒有使用的想法是美國夢，反而認為這是一場噩夢。 And so Obama is not a savior, and certainly not the end of racism as we know it.因此，奧巴馬不是救世主，當然還沒有結束的種族主義因為我們知道這一點。 But we are closer than we’ve ever been.但是，我們更接近我們所見過的。 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.在我的課堂上，我可以從我的窗口和橋樑看到一個黑人男子被私刑於1906年因涉嫌強姦一名白人女孩。 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.最高法院發出了中止執行，但暴徒是聾啞人到華盛頓，並把他從他的牢房和他發呆，開槍將他和串成他再次繩子斷了。 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.當我告訴這個故事由著這一天，這名男子的屍體不會擱置如此嚴重，以及警犬不會咬這種憤怒，和警方將大滿貫nightstick少報復，和子彈不會火災因為槍將不再工作。 “We Shall Overcome’’ evolves to: we are overcoming. “我們克服''演變為：我們正在克服。 We have overcome.我們已經克服。 David Cook is a former journalist with the Chattanooga Times-Free Press and current columnist with the chattanoogan.com.大衛庫克是前記者查塔努加時報自由出版社和當前的專欄作家與chattanoogan.com 。 He teaches American Studies and Democracy Studies at Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga, TN and can be reached at dcook7@gmail.com.他教美國研究和民主研究預備學校女生在查塔努加，田納西州，可達到dcook7@gmail.com 。 Have Your Say: American History X 你說：美國歷史X Please read our請仔細閱讀我們的 posting guidelines before posting張貼在發布前的指導方針 . 。 Alternatively或者 you can discuss this report here你可以討論這份報告在這裡 . 。 Related News 相關新聞
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