Name: 【TED】威瑪‧麥爾斯: 如何克服偏見？勇敢走向它們 (Verna Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them)
Uploaded: 2017-03-01T21:59:58.000Z
Duration: 17 min 54 s

過去簡單式

在今年夏天的一次長途旅行途中，

過去進行式

and I was having a wonderful time listening

我正陶醉於一本非常棒的有聲書，

to the amazing Isabel Wilkerson's "The Warmth of Other Suns."

易莎貝‧魏克森所著的「他鄉暖陽」。

It documents six million black folks fleeing the South from 1915 to 1970

這本書記錄了 1915 至 1970 年間， 六百萬黑人逃離美國南方，

looking for a respite from all the brutality

企圖脫離所有暴力折磨， 尋求避風港，

and trying to get to a better opportunity up North,

嘗試在美國北方 獲得更好的生活機遇。

and it was filled with stories of the resilience and the brilliance

這部書充滿了關於美國黑人 堅韌和卓越的故事。

and it was also really hard to hear all the stories of the horrors

與充滿歧視的故事， 我感到非常難過。

and the humility, and all the humiliations.

尤其是那些對黑人的毆打、燒傷、

It was especially hard to hear about the beatings and the burnings

於是我說：「這有點太沈重了！」

And I said, "You know, this is a little deep.

「我需要放鬆一下。 我要聽聽收音機。」

I need a break. I'm going to turn on the radio."

我打開收音機，卻聽到了這些：

在沒有持有武器的情況下， 被一位白人警察射殺，

unarmed, shot by a white police officer, laid on the ground dead,

血流不止，持續了整整四個小時。

while his grandmother and little children and his neighbors watched in horror,

而他的祖母、小孩子們， 還有鄰居們在恐懼中目睹了這一幕。

This violence, this brutality against black men

這些對於黑人的殘忍暴力行徑，

I mean, it's the same story. It's just different names.

這些事情的本質都是一樣的， 只是當事人名字不同而已。

與阿馬杜‧狄洛事件一樣， （1999 年被紐約警察槍殺）

與希安‧貝爾事件一樣， （2005 年被紐約警察槍殺）

與奧斯卡‧格蘭特事件一樣， （2009 年被加州奧克蘭警方槍殺）

與特雷凡‧馬丁事件一樣。 （2012 年被佛羅里達州桑福德警方槍殺）

is really something that's part of our national psyche.

已經在我們國家留下深深的烙印，

You know that part of us that still crosses the street,

每當我們看到年輕黑人的時候？

I mean, I know we're not shooting people down in the street,

but I'm saying that the same stereotypes and prejudices

我的意思是， 我們並沒有在街頭射殺無辜，

that fuel those kinds of tragic incidents

I believe that we can stop these types of incidents,

我們能夠阻止這種慘劇的發生，

by looking within and being willing to change ourselves.

阻止像弗格森案件這樣的慘劇發生，

只要能夠自我反省並願意改變自我。

There are three things that I want to offer us today to think about

as ways to stop Ferguson from happening again;

做三件我今天想讓大家思考的事情，

來阻止弗格森案件這樣的慘劇 再度發生。

我認為這三件事情可以幫助我們

three things that I'm hoping will not only protect them

but will open the world so that they can thrive.

我希望這三件事不僅可以保護他們，

更可以讓整個世界向他們敞開， 讓他們奮鬥發展。

Can you imagine our country embracing young black men,

seeing them as part of our future, giving them that kind of openness,

你們能夠想像我們的國家 擁抱年輕黑人，

that kind of grace we give to people we love?

將他們視作我們未來的一部分，

How much better would our lives be? How much better would our country be?

給予他們同樣的寬敞空間 和同樣的寬厚，

如同我們給我們所愛的人一樣？

我們的生活與我們的國家 將會變得多麼美好？

and people will come up to me at the beginning of the workshop.

They're like, "Oh, Ms. Diversity Lady, we're so glad you're here" --

我從事許多關於社會多樣化的工作， 許多人在研討會之初找到我，

他們會說：「哦，『多樣化』女士， 我們很高興您能夠出席！」

"but we don't have a biased bone in our body."

「但是我們心中 並沒有一絲一毫的偏見。」

Because I do this work every day, and I see all my biases."

I mean, not too long ago, I was on a plane

「因為我每天都在做這方面的工作， 但我本人還是有許多偏見。」

and I heard the voice of a woman pilot coming over the P.A. system,

聽到機艙廣播裡 一位女機長的聲音，

I was like, "Yes, women, we are rocking it.

「是的，女同胞們，我們做到了！」

It was all good, and then it started getting turbulent and bumpy,

一切都很好，直到遇到氣流， 飛機開始變得顛簸，

「這個女機長到底 會不會開飛機啊！」

But it's not even like I knew that was a bias

until I was coming back on the other leg and there's always a guy driving

我甚至沒有意識到這是個偏見。

直到在回程的航班上， 是一位男機長在駕駛，

and I've never questioned the confidence of the male driver.

我卻一直沒有質疑 這位男機長的實力，

If you ask me explicitly, I would say, "Female pilot: awesome."

But it appears that when things get funky and a little troublesome, a little risky,

如果你直接問我，我會這樣說：

I lean on a bias that I didn't even know that I had.

但是當出現了一點點小麻煩時，

我便會不自覺地產生一些偏見，

I'm going to tell you what we have learned.

The implicit association test, which measures unconscious bias,

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