He's running for U.S. Senate in Tennessee,

他正在競選田納西州美國參議員

and he says, "Mellody, I desperately need some national press. Do you have any ideas?"

他說：「Mellody，我現在非常需要接觸全國性的媒體，你有什麼辦法嗎？ 」

我想到了一個主意，於是給一個朋友打電話

at one of the most successful media companies in the world,

一家世界上最著名的媒體公司任職

舉辦一個媒體主編的午餐會呢？

我們看起來像是閃閃發亮的硬幣

And we get to the receptionist, and we say,

at which point she looks at us and she says,

「現在，你不覺得我們在美國參議院

more than one black person in the U.S. Senate?"

and in many ways, the moment caught me off guard,

無論怎麼說，這句話的確讓我措手不及

And I wasn't surprised because of something

my mother taught me about 30 years before.

我的母親在30年前教給我的某些東西

You see, my mother was ruthlessly realistic.

I remember one day coming home from a birthday party

我記得，有一天參加一個生日聚會之後回到家

我是唯一一個被邀請的黑人小孩

and instead of asking me the normal motherly questions

她並沒有問我那些大多數母親都會問的問題

like, "Did you have fun?" or "How was the cake?"

比如「過得愉快嗎？或者「蛋糕好吃嗎？ 」

I mean, why would anyone treat me differently?

為什麼有人會用不同的方式對待我？

And she looked me right in the eye and she said,

Now, race is one of those topics in America

that makes people extraordinarily uncomfortable.

it is literally the conversational equivalent

and they warned me, they told me, don't do it,

that people might think I'm a militant black woman

人們會覺得我是個激進的黑人女性

I actually for a moment was a bit afraid.

And so I decided to actually talk about race.

And I decided that if I came here and shared with you

that maybe we could all be a little less anxious

或許這可以減少大家的一些焦慮

Now I know there are people out there who will say

that it was the end of racial discrimination

make up just 30 percent of the U.S. population,

they hold 70 percent of all corporate board seats.

there are only seven CEOs that are minorities,

and of the thousands of publicly traded companies today, thousands,

在如今數千家公開上市的企業中，數千家

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