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  • I've been doing shows around the country.

    我在全國各地上脫口秀,

  • Around the world really.

    應該說全球,真的

  • I've been blessed.

    我一直很感激

  • And I remember one day I'm in L.A.

    我記得有一次在洛杉磯

  • and I'm doing a show and we're sitting backstage

    我在後台,準備上台表演

  • and this comedian comes in to the backstage area

    然後有個喜劇演員來到後台

  • and he's got a list of all the guys that are performing.

    他拿著ㄧ份上台表演的名單

  • And so, he looks around and he looks at the

    然後,他四處搜尋,接著看向在角落暗處的人

  • darkest guy in the corner, just the blackest guy

    也是他可以看到的

  • he could find.

    最黑的人

  • And he goes

    接著他說:

  • [comedically] hey, yo.

    「 嘿,yo

  • You the dude from Africa?

    你來自非洲嗎?」

  • [laughter]

    (笑)

  • And the guy looks up and he's like

    然後那位老兄抬起頭,

  • [comedically] nah man, I'm from Detroit.

    好像說:「不是餒,我從底特律來的。」

  • [laughter]

    (笑)

  • He's like

    然後喜劇演員就回

  • [comedically] a'ight, my bad.

    啊,抱歉

  • My bad.

    我搞錯了

  • My bad.

    抱歉

  • Uh, a'ight, uh, yo.

    呃,嗯對,yo

  • OK, Detroit.

    OK,底特律

  • Yeah, yeah.

    對對對

  • You--oh, a'ight, OK cool.

    你,對對就你,沒錯

  • L.A.

    洛杉磯

  • OK, cool.

    好,很好

  • Cool.

  • Cool.

  • [normal speaking voice] And then he looks at me

    (回到正常聲調) 然後他看著我一陣子

  • for a second, does a quick calculation.

    腦筋快速轉一圈

  • And he's like oh, a'ight, a'ight, um, yeah.

    他朝我著喊:「噢對對,就你,嗯,對。」

  • [laughter]

    (笑)

  • And then he looks and he goes

    接著他看著我說:

  • [comedically] yo, where you from man?

    「yo,你來自哪裡啊?」

  • [normal voice] I said I'm from South Africa.

    我說我從南非來的

  • He's like

    他回:

  • [comedically] oh, oh, oh.

    「噢,噢,噢

  • You the dude?

    真的假的?

  • [laughter]

    (笑)

  • Oh damn, man.

    噢該死

  • Damn.

    他 X 的

  • A'ight.

  • Yo, I didn't even know they got--yo,

    yo,我還不認識...yo,

  • you the dude from Africa?

    你真從南非來的?

  • [laughter]

    (笑)

  • Man, didn't even know they got

    我還不知道他們那裏有

  • light-skinned [bleep] out there, man.

    淺色皮膚的人

  • [laughter]

    (笑)

  • Damn.

    該死

  • A'ight.

  • Yo.

    Yo.

  • Yo.

    Yo.

  • That's the motherland, man.

    那是祖國欸

  • That's the motherland.

    祖國欸

  • [normal voice] And all of a sudden he just started

    然後他突然

  • giving me this speech.

    跟我說了這段話

  • He's like

    他說:

  • [comedically] man, you know, yo man, that's--yo man,

    「老兄,你知道嗎,yo...

  • that's where we gotta be, man.

    我們祖先就是從那來的,

  • That's, you know--

    你知道...

  • [laughter]

    (笑)

  • --that's the motherland out there, man.

    那裏是祖國欸

  • Yeah.

    你知道

  • I gots to get out there, man.

    我要去那裡

  • I gots to.

    我會去那裡

  • Yo, I gots to go home, man.

    yo,我打算回家

  • [laughter]

    (笑)

  • You heard?

    你瞭解嗎?

  • I gots to go home.

    我要回那裡的老家

  • Man, you tell them.

    老兄,你要告訴他們

  • A'ight?

    好嗎?

  • You tell 'em.

    告訴他們

  • You tell them I'm coming home, a'ight?

    告訴他們我正要回家,好嗎?」

  • [laughter]

    (笑)

  • [normal speaking voice] And I was like

    然後我就回:

  • [laughs] we're not waiting.

    「我們還在等什麼?」

  • [laughter]

    (笑)

  • ' Cause I'm just--I'm fascinate--I think

    我就是非常著迷...

  • that's come--that whole identity has come

    因為那就是整個非裔美國人

  • from the term African-American .

    身份地位的來源地

  • This is something that's fascinated me.

    那真的很令我著迷

  • You know, it's the very loose term.

    這是非常概括的名詞

  • African-American.

    非裔美國人

  • 'Cause half of the time you use it for people that

    因為有一半的時間你稱呼的

  • aren't even African.

    都不是非洲人

  • You know?

    你瞭解嗎?

  • Just use it long as you're black.

    只要是黑人,

  • They go African-American.

    就被冠上非裔美國人

  • But it's--what if people aren't from Africa?

    但,如果他們不是來自非洲呢?

  • They still African-American?

    還是稱作非裔美國人嗎?

  • Those people from the Caribbean, from Haiti, from Jamaica.

    那些從加勒比海、海地、牙買加的呢?

  • You know?

    你知道嗎?

  • They call--

    他們稱為...

  • [comedically] yeah, African-America.

    (喜劇演員聲調) 啊對,非裔美國人

  • Guys like

    那些人就回:

  • [Jamaican accent] no man, I come from Jamaica.

    (牙買加口音)「不是啊,我來自牙買加

  • I no' from Africa.

    不是非洲餒

  • [laughter]

    (笑)

  • I ain't never been there 'fore, man.

    我從來沒去過非洲欸。」

  • [comedically] He's like you wanna stay?

    喜劇演員回:「啊你是到底要不要上台?」

  • [Jamaican accent] African-American, man.

    (牙買加口音) 非裔美國人

  • Hey.

  • [laughter, applause]

    (笑聲和掌聲)

  • [normal voice] The prefix to American has become as

    那個美國的字首

  • important as American itself.

    變得就像美國一樣重要

  • I thought it was just American but it's not.

    我以為就是美國嘛,但錯了

  • No, no, no.

    不,不,不

  • It's very important you have the prefix.

    那是非常重要的

  • You know, you have African-American.

    你是非裔美國人

  • African-American.

    非裔美國人

  • You have others like Latin-

    還有拉丁美洲人

  • or Mexican-American.

    或是墨西哥裔美國人

  • You have Asian-American.

    你是亞裔美國人

  • You have--the most interesting for me was

    你是...我覺得最有趣的是

  • Indian-American which I learned about during Thanksgiving.

    我在感恩節才認識的印第安美國人

  • Indian-American.

    印第安美國人

  • And then I was told I'm no longer allowed to say this.

    然後我就被警告不要再說那個詞了

  • Said I now have to say Native American.

    所以現在我就說美國當地人

  • Which is redundant, is it not?

    哪個比較廢話,

  • [laughter]

    (笑)

  • Because if somebody's a native of the land

    因為如果是那個土地上的人

  • they're still in should you not then just

    他們還健在

  • call them American?

    我們不是應該稱他們為美國人嗎?

  • [laughter]

    (笑)

  • How does that work?

    這樣講如何?

I've been doing shows around the country.

我在全國各地上脫口秀,

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