Name: 【TED】埃裡卡-布里奇福德：巴爾的摩是如何呼籲停火的（How Baltimore called a ceasefire | Erricka Bridgeford）。 (【TED】Erricka Bridgeford: How Baltimore called a ceasefire (How Baltimore called a ceasefire | Erricka Bridgeford))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:38:16.000Z
Duration: 11 min 28 s

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Helen Chang

and he often talks about how problems show up in our lives so arrogantly,

他是「王國生命教堂」的牧師，

with so much confidence, as if there is just nothing we can do about them.

他經常會談到，問題總是會 很傲慢地出現在我們的人生當中，

And the murder rate in Baltimore had been doing that.

帶著相當的信心，好像在說 我們就是拿它們沒輒似的。

Year after year, it just kept showing up as this big thing

而巴爾的摩的謀殺率 就一直是這樣的問題。

that there was nothing any of us could do anything about.

一年又一年，它就是 不斷以大事之姿出現，

好像我們所有人都拿它沒辦法。

is that it has never been the one to just be defeated.

So the story about the Baltimore Ceasefire

就是它從來不會就這樣被打敗。

is that Baltimore looked the murder rate in the eye

所以，關於「巴爾的摩停火」 運動的故事，

and said, "What you're not going to do is snatch our greatness."

就是巴爾的摩 毫不畏懼地正視謀殺，

So two years ago, I'm at a 300 Man March meeting.

並說：「不許你奪走 我們的偉大。」

At the time, I was a leader in that movement.

所以，兩年前，我在 「300 人遊行」的一場會議上。

he's like a godfather of hip-hop in Baltimore --

他就像是巴爾的摩的嘻哈教父——

"Yo, I have this idea about calling a ceasefire in Baltimore,

and I feel like you are somebody I should talk to about that."

「唷！我有個點子， 叫做在巴爾的摩停火，

And I was like, "I'm absolutely somebody you should talk to about that,

而我覺得你應該是 談這種事的對象。」

我回說：「你該談的 對象絕對是我，

And so we played phone tag and meeting tag,

and two years went by and we never really sat down and talked about it.

我們老是漏接對方的電話、 見面時間橋不攏，

兩年過去了，我們從來沒有 真正坐下來好好談它。

My son Paul, he's 19 years old, he's driving me home from work one day,

and he says, "Ma, did you know that the murder rate in Baltimore

我兒子保羅，他 19 歲， 有一天我下班時他開車載我回家，

他說：「媽，你知道 巴爾的摩的謀殺率

And I said, "What you mean it's higher than it's ever been?

我說：「你說史上最高 是什麼意思？

Like, I mean, what about people who say they have connections to the streets?

Why won't they use those connections and call a cease-fire or something?"

我是說，那些說在街頭 有關係的人呢？

他們為什麼不用那些關係 來推動停火之類的？」

from my own feelings of helplessness about what other people weren't doing.

談到我自己對於其他人 沒有採取行動感到無助。

and I realized that what I was really angry about

wasn't about what other people weren't doing,

it was that I had heard this message years ago,

我氣的是，我在幾年前 就聽到了這個訊息，

So it was about what I was supposed to be doing.

所以，重點在於我應該要做什麼。

where everybody in the city was committing,

在這三天就好， 全市所有人都參與，

and we're going to celebrate life instead,

all right, I've got some free time the first weekend in August,

現在是五月，我看著我的日曆，

we'll do it August 4th through August 6th, right?

好，我在八月的 第一週有一些空檔，

So I'm all excited, I start driving to work,

我們 8 月 4 日到 8 月 6 日來做，好嗎？

and the more I drive, the scareder I get.

Nobody will ever know I was thinking it if I don't say it."

如果我不說，就沒有人 會知道我在想它。」

因為神喜歡以我們的身分出現，

and I'm always called to stand in my wholeness,

there was a call on my life to say this thing out loud.

呼喚我的生命，要大聲說出來。

and is always yearning to show up in its wholeness,

there were hearts that morning calling all through my chest

總是渴望著要能以完整之姿出現，

that people around this city wanted to do something great together.

那個早晨，我可以感到 胸口充滿了心的呼喚，

And people who had already been killed in my city

這個城市中的人想要 一起完成一件大事。

as a knot in my throat, "Yo, E, you cannot just let us be dead in vain

呼喚聲從我的腸子 一路向上到胸口，

when you know how to say this thing out loud."

變成我喉嚨中的一個結：「唷， 艾瑞卡，你不能讓我們白死，

因為你知道要如何把 這件事大聲說出來。」

"But somebody might get killed anyway that weekend."

And that was the moment where I had to accept

「但那個週末可能 無論如何都會有人被殺。」

that maybe while we're out spreading this message --

"Hey, nobody's going to kill anybody. We're going to celebrate life!" --

也許雖然我們在外面 散佈這個訊息——

maybe somebody will be plotting to take a life right then and there,

「嘿，沒有人會殺任何人。 我們要來讚頌生命！」——

but now they would have a rumbling in their spirit.

也許會有人在策劃要在那個時刻 那個地方奪取一條人命，

但現在他們就會在 他們的心靈中有著不滿聲。

to have a collective rumbling in our spirit.

So I got on the phone, got around to Ogun,

在我們的心靈當中發出 集體不滿聲的時候了。

and I said, "Yo, you said you wanted to do a cease-fire?

我說：「唷，你說你想要 做一個停火活動？

So he said, "You know, when I hear about the Israelis and Palestinians at war,

I'm like, that's too bad, they should stop that,

他說：「當我聽到以色列 和巴勒斯坦在打仗，

我覺得太糟了， 他們應該停止那麼做，

that makes me pause and stop and really research what's going on."

And he wanted Baltimore to get that same kind of attention

它讓我暫停下來， 真正去研究發生了什麼事。」

but introspection from the inside about what was going on with us.

And we talked about how it couldn't belong to one person.

但從內部做自省， 想想我們是怎麼搞的。

Not one person or one organization should call a cease-fire.

我們談到，它不能只屬於一個人。

The whole city had to own it and do it together.

不是由一個人或一個組織來喊停火。

所以，我們在五月第一次會面。

and this is where it gets named the Baltimore Ceasefire,

because you know what that means when you hear the word "cease-fire."

在這次會面，我們把它 命名為「巴爾的摩停火」，

因為當你聽到「停火」這個詞， 你就知道它是什麼意思。

And this is where the Baltimore Peace Challenge was born.

Because it's not just about not being violent.

「巴爾的摩和平挑戰」在此誕生。

因為重點並不是只在於不要暴力。

重點也在於要能堅定地愛好和平。

【TED】埃裡卡-布里奇福德：巴爾的摩是如何呼籲停火的（How Baltimore called a ceasefire | Erricka Bridgeford）。 (【TED】Erricka Bridgeford: How Baltimore called a ceasefire (How Baltimore called a ceasefire | Erricka Bridgeford))

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