Playing the Black Card - YouTube

你听说过黑卡 You've heard about the black card,

对吧？ right?

不 —— 不是维萨 No — not the one from Visa,

或 美国运通 发行的那种 or American Express.

这一张 要有价值得多 This one is much more valuable.

有些组织 完全在此基础之上建立 There are entire organizations that have been built upon it.

另外还有一些个人 利用它 And individuals that have used it,

获取了财富和影响力 to acquire both wealth and influence.

如果这玩意儿听上去 If this sounds like something,

是你可能想要的东西 you might wish to own,

你应该知道 you should know,

只有一种办法 that there is only one way,

你可以把它弄到手： you can get your hands on it:

你得是 生来就是黑皮肤的 you have to be born with black skin.

那是唯一的要求 That's the only requirement.

讲真 Really.

你可以是穷人 You can be poor,

中产阶级 middle class,

或是富人 —— 这都无所谓 or rich — it doesn't matter.

这张黑卡 仍然将会赠予你 The black card will still confer upon you,

一段完整的受压迫史 an entire history of oppression,

即使 even,

你从来没有受到过压迫 if you've never been oppressed.

刷这张黑卡 Flash the black card,

然后 大多数白人都会颤抖 and most white people will cower.

娴熟地打这张黑人牌（此处双关：同“黑卡”） Play the black card expertly,

那么你就能赢得奖励 and you can win awards,

赚得盆满钵满 —— make millions —

同时还能喋喋不休地宣称 all the while claiming,

那些让你得到这些的人们 that the people who got you there,

不知何故地仇视你 somehow hate you.

有一张黑人牌的加持 With a black card,

你还可以卖书 you can sell books,

其中充斥着不知所云的奇文 full of indecipherable prose.

因为握有一张威力如此强大的王牌 Because with a card that powerful,

谁会在乎 你的文字 是不是言之有理？ who cares if your words make any sense?

你可以自称为 是一名 You can call yourself a,

“民权领袖” 然后 "civil rights leader" and,

向跨国公司狠敲一笔竹杠 shake down multinational corporations,

或者 你可以把你自己的街坊四邻 付之一炬 or you can torch your own neighborhood,

因为你不满意 一支大陪审团裁决的结果 because you didn't like the outcome of a grand jury verdict.

具有讽刺意味的是 Ironically,

那些 你或许认为 the people you might think,

最当仁不让 有资格享用那张黑卡的人们 have the most legitimate claim to the black card,

却拒绝 refuse,

使用它 to use it.

以我的祖父 Take my grandfather,

为例： for instance:

从我九岁那年开始 他抚养我长大 He raised me from the time I was 9 years old.

他生于1941年 Born in 1941,

北卡罗莱纳的农村地区 in rural North Carolina,

他五岁起 就开始工作 he started working at age five,

在一家佃户农场 把烟叶摊开 晾晒 laying out tobacco to dry on a sharecropping farm.

吉姆·克劳法（注释：指1876~1965年，南部及边境各州施行的种族隔离法） Jim Crow,

饮水器分隔制 separate drinking fountains,

以及3K党 and the KKK,

都是如影相随的现实存在 were ever-present realities.

十七岁时 He was 17,

他娶了我的祖母 when he married my grandmother.

他通过 为住宅和办公楼做保洁 来谋生 He made a living cleaning homes and office buildings,

直到他存够了钱 until he saved up enough money,

开了他自己的保洁公司 to open his own cleaning business.

关键在于 The thing is,

他从来不会打任何牌 he never played any card.

我的祖母也不会 Nor did my grandmother.

如果他们遇到问题 If they had problems,

他们不责怪任何人 they didn't blame anybody.

他们只是去解决它 They just fixed them.

而且他们教育我 And they raised me,

以同样的方式处事 to do the same.

处理杂务是他们的持家之道 Chores were a requirement in their household.

阅读圣经 也同样如此 So was reading the Bible,

是在每天早晨上学之前的 例行功课 every morning before school.

我不喜欢读圣经 I didn't like the Bible readings,

而且 我也厌烦 and I hated,

做家务 the chores.

但是我现在意识到 But I realize now,

这些体现 克己自律的日常琐事 that these small acts of discipline,

尽管有时 枯燥乏味 although sometimes stifling,

却深刻 had a strong,

积极地 影响和塑造了我的性格 positive impact on my character.

我是家里的第一代大学生 I was a first-generation college student.

这被认为 是通往锦绣前程的入场券 This was supposed to be the ticket to prosperity.

但事实并非如此 But it wasn't.

大学生涯留给我的 是一大堆债务 I left college with a mountain of debt,

以及 不敷实用的技能 and no practical skills.

我所拥有的 仅仅是我银行账户上的80美元 I had just $80 dollars in my bank account,

以及 异常渺茫的未来 and very few prospects.

我可能已经放弃了 I could have given up.

我可能已经 深入地挖掘了 我的历史 I could have dug deep into my history,

然后宣告 and declared,

由于祖先受到的压迫 自己的困境是一种自然而然的产物 myself a natural product of ancestral oppression.

我可能已经打了那张黑人牌 I could have played the black card,

并且进行了自我宽恕： and absolved myself,

所有那些 我自己做出的愚蠢决定 都不是我的责任 of all responsibility for my own stupid decisions.

只是 我并没有那么做 Except, I didn't.

因为 那会毁掉 祖父给我的传家宝 Because it would have destroyed my grandfather's legacy.

我很骄傲 I am proud,

他有着坚忍不拔的毅力 that he had the fortitude,

将一无所有 变为小有成就 to turn nothing into something;

而且 我也无意 and I have no intention,

再将那些人生成就 倒退回某种 一无所长的状态 of reversing that something back into a nothing.

随着我的想法而来的 是某些代价 My attitude comes with a price,

很不幸 however.

因为 如果你生为黑人 Because if you are born black,

而且你拒绝将一种受害者身份 接受成为你的自然状态 and you don't accept your natural status as a victim,

那么你作为黑人的正当性 then the validity of your blackness,

就会立刻招来质疑 is immediately called into question.

好吧 那就这样吧 Well, so be it.

如果相信我自己 If believing in myself,

如果对我自己的挫折 承担起责任 意味着 if accepting the responsibility for my failures,

会让我 以某种方式 丧失拥有一张虚构卡的资格 somehow disqualifies me from owning an imaginary card,

那么 就让我成为那个先行者 then let me be the first,

以此来宣告 我不想要一张那样的卡 to declare that I don't want one.

我也不希望 康乃尔·韦斯特 I also don't want Cornel West,

阿尔·夏普顿 Al Sharpton,

或者 此处可插入任何其他人的名字 —— or insert-anyone-else,

这些人利用他们的肤色 操纵这套制度以自利 —— who uses their skin color to game the system,

让他们成为一种行为楷模 as a role model.

我已经有了我的祖父 作为榜样 I already have my grandfather.

如果有一件事 If there is one thing,

是我的家族史教会我的 that my family history has taught me,

那就是 我不需要一张黑卡 —— it's that I do not need a black card —

或者 任何一种虚构物 —— or an imaginary anything —

来成就我自己 to make something of myself.

需要说明 For the record,

我的祖父 my grandfather,

现已退休 now retired,

住在一所房子里 lives in a home,

那是他和我的祖母 建在一块 that he and my grandmother built on a plot of land,

他们在北卡罗莱纳 购入的土地上 —— they purchased in North Carolina —

也就是那块 完全相同的佃户农地 the very same sharecropping farm,

是他还是个小孩子的时候 劳作过的土地 that he worked on as a small child.

他的故事与众不同 His story is unique.

他的故事美妙动人 His story is beautiful.

因为 那是一个美国故事 Because it's American.

而且 那是唯一的那张 And that's the only card,

让我自始至终 有兴趣打的牌 I've ever been interested in playing.

我是坎迪丝·欧文斯 I'm Candace Owens,

为普拉格大学制作 for Prager University.