Name: 【TED】普莉雅伍爾奇 & 薇諾娜郭: 需要什麼來達到種族識能 (What it takes to be racially literate | Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo)
Uploaded: 2018-05-30T07:12:56.000Z
Duration: 12 min 23 s
Description: Over the last year, Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo traveled to all 50 US states, collecting personal stories about race and intersectionality. Now they\'re on a mission...

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Priya Vulchi: Four years ago, we really thought we understood racism.

過去完成式

Just like many of you here today, we had experienced and heard stories

普莉雅伍爾奇：四年前， 我們真的以為我們了解種族主義。

about race, about prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping

就像今天在座許多人一樣， 我們都經歷過也聽過

and we were like, "We get it, racism, we got it, we got it."

關於種族、偏見、歧視， 及刻板印象的故事，

我們心想：「我們懂啦， 種族主義嘛，我們懂的。」

Winona Guo: So we decided that we had to listen and learn more.

但其實我們離「懂」還差得遠呢。

We talked to as many random people as we could

薇諾娜郭：所以，我們決定 我們得要再多聽多學。

and collected hundreds of personal stories about race,

我們盡可能與很多 隨機選中的人交談，

stories that revealed how racial injustice is a nationwide epidemic

收集了數百個個人的種族相關故事，

這些故事揭露出種族不公平 是全國都在流行的狀況，

and now can't seem to recognize or get rid of.

現在似乎卻無法承認或擺脫它。

Today, we are here to raise our standards of racial literacy,

to redefine what it means to be racially literate.

今天，我們來這裡是要提高 我們對於種族識能的標準，

WG: We want everywhere across the United States

重新定義具有種族識能的意義。

for our youngest and future generations to grow up equipped

with the tools to understand, navigate and improve

我們最年輕的一代 以及未來的世代在成長的過程中，

都能夠有足夠的工具， 來協助了解、指引，和改善

We want us all to imagine the community as a place

這個由種族分裂所建構成的世界。

where we not only feel proud of our own backgrounds,

我希望所有人能夠把 這個共同社會想為這樣的地方：

but can also invest in others' experiences as if they were our own.

在這裡，我們不僅為 我們自己的背景感到驕傲，

PV: We just graduated from high school this past June.

同時也能投資他人的經驗， 彷彿那是我們自己的經驗一樣。

普：我們去年六月才剛從高中畢業。

somebody in or out of the classroom would have helped us understand --

你們可能會認為，經過了十二年，

教室內或教室外總會 有人協助我們了解——

普：至少在最基本的層級上——

PV: The truth for almost all our classmates is that they don't.

WG: In communities around our country, so many of which are racially divided,

普：對我們絕大多數的 同學而言，事實是「沒有」。

PV: If you don't go searching for an education about race,

薇：我們國內有好多的 社區都被種族給分裂，

普：如果你不去尋找 關於種族的教育，

PV: Even when we did have conversations about race,

our understanding was always superficial.

普：就算我們已有關於種族的對話，

我們發現在我們的種族識能當中

an inability to understand each of our experiences,

to fiercely and unapologetically be compassionate beyond lip service.

激烈而毫不抱歉地表達出 超越口頭話的同理心。

an inability to understand the larger, systemic ways in which racism operates.

無法了解種族主義所採用的 更大、系統化的運作方式。

To be fair, race did pop up a few times in school, growing up.

We all defend our social justice education

老實說，在成長過程中， 種族的確有在學校中出現幾次。

because we learned about Martin Luther King Jr.

我們都會守護我們的社會正義教育，

哈莉特塔布曼， 以及羅莎帕克斯的事蹟。

"Yes, slavery, that happened once upon a time,

感覺起來種族也像是過時的，就像：

「是的，奴役制度很久以前發生過，

But what if our teacher introduced a story from the present day,

結果就是，我們其實不會去在乎。

for example, how Treniya told us in Pittsburgh that --

但如果我們的老師能 介紹一個現今的故事呢？

PV: "My sister was scrolling through Facebook and typed in our last name.

比如，崔奈雅告訴我們， 在匹茲堡——

普：「我姐姐在滑手機看臉書， 輸入了我們的姓氏。

and we found out that his great-great-grandfather owned slaves

and my great-great- great-grandmother was one of them.

我們發現，他的 曾曾曾祖父擁有奴隸，

而我的曾曾曾祖母就是其中之一。

We've been living under a white man's name.

If slavery didn't happen, who would I even be?"

我們一直活在白人的名字之下。

如果奴役沒有發生，我會是誰？」

because the connection to slavery's lasting legacy today is made clear, right?

薇：這馬上就讓人感受到重要性了，

Or what would happen is our teacher would throw out these cold statistics.

因為奴役所遺留至今的 影響就顯而易見，對吧？

You've probably seen this one before in news headlines.

或，可能會發生的狀況是， 老師會把冰冷的數據丟給我們。

你可能曾經在新聞頭條看過這個。

more than five times the rate of white people.

薇：現在，來看看西雅圖的朗尼。

He's all I've got, I don't know my mother.

My father's currently being wrongly incarcerated for 12 years.

我也只有他了，我不認識我的媽媽。

I've got a daughter, and I try to be that same fatherly figure for her:

我爸爸被冤枉，目前 已經被監禁了 12 年。

always involved in everything she does, it might even be annoying at some points.

我有個女兒，我也為她 努力成為同樣的父親典範：

But I'm afraid I'll go missing in her life

參與所有她做的事， 即使有些時候會很煩人。

但我害怕我會從她的人生中消失，

WG: Throwing out just the statistic, just the facts alone,

就像我爸爸從我人生中消失一樣。」

薇：只丟出統計數字，只有事實，

can lead to dangerously incomplete understanding of those facts.

It fails to recognize that for many people who don't understand racism

結果可能很危險，會造成 對那些事實的了解不完全。

這麼做就是沒能夠了解到， 對許多不懂種族主義的人來說，

to talk about the pain of white supremacy and oppression,

it's that they don't recognize that that pain exists at all.

來談論白人至上和 壓迫所造成的痛苦，

They don't recognize the human beings that are being affected,

而是他們根本不知道那痛苦存在。

他們無法看出會有人類受到影響，

且他們的低感受度也 不足以讓他們去在乎。

without understanding how things like unjust laws and biased policing

我們無法真正領會朗尼的狀況，

如果我們不了解如不公平的 法律、偏見的政策制訂，

the disproportionate incarceration rates over time.

及有系統的種族主義是如何造成

監禁比例隨時間變得 越來越不成比例。

the large prison population of native Hawaiians like Kimmy

is heavily influenced by the island's long history

監獄中大量的夏威夷 原住民囚犯，像是金米，

受到該島過去被美國長期殖民的

its impact passing down through generations to today.

經過世世代代，它的 衝擊力一路傳到現今。

about people's personal, unique experiences in the classroom.

在教室裡別人的個人獨特經驗。

WG: "I've been working on psychologically reclaiming my place in this city.

像是，賈斯汀有次告訴我們——

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