Marc Bamuthi Joseph: "You Have the Rite"
Marc Bamuthi Joseph: "Você tem o rito"
TED Fellow Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a curator of words, ideas and protagonists. His bold, poetically-driven work investigates social issues and cultural identity. Full bio
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o mesmo número de calçado.
Air Jordan 4s for Christmas.
episode of "Black-ish."
"Black-ish" inspirado em "Grinch".
on my Black man feet.
em meus pés de homem negro.
freedom days back fast enough.
aqueles dias de liberdade como gostaria.
on the Upper East Side.
no Upper East Side.
em que ele trabalhava,
boys are the stupidest.
os garotos são os mais idiotas.
barely getting away
e nunca contar a meus pais.
is stewarding this tradition well.
mantendo bem essa tradição.
and Marvin Gaye on repeat.
e ouvir Marvin Gaye sem parar.
and older than Emmett Till.
e mais velho do que Emmett Till.
enter his prime suspect years:
oficialmente no rol dos suspeitos:
the threat of communities from below.
a ameaça de comunidades de baixo.
humans have no natural predator,
o homem não tem predador natural,
genetically embedded and instinctual
geneticamente incorporado e instintivo
and then walks around them,
e depois caminham ao redor deles,
half-eaten gazelles,
próximos a gazelas meio devoradas,
on some Nat Geo shit.
em algum Nat Geo.
broken "Fortnite" thing
under the eye of my filming iPhone,
vista pela câmera do meu iPhone,
who has just salvaged a draw.
que acabou de conseguir um empate.
o corpo totalmente livre.
estacionei em lugar proibido.
considering the odds that I'm going to die
considerando minhas chances de morrer,
who expects that in 18 minutes,
seu pai vá buscá-lo na pré-escola.
para registrar esse momento.
to capture this moment, so.
when I was 16 getting ready for the SAT,
aos 16 anos, estudando pro vestibular,
that really speaks is my skin.
que realmente fala é minha pele.
entre as ruas 12ª e Broadway.
on 12th and Broadway,
a police car pulls up behind me,
para atrás do meu carro.
that earnest Black man face.
de homem negro que diz: "Xi, foi mal".
and then hits the siren,
e depois liga a sirene,
com a mão no revólver,
another patrol car now, four cops now,
outra viatura e quatro policiais agora,
hands behind my back, shackled.
mãos atrás das costas, algemado.
only until I'm scared and then sad.
só até ficar assustado e depois triste.
before my own death.
antes de minha própria morte.
before he realizes
vai esperar antes de perceber
formed memory of me
mal formada dele a meu respeito
I never came for him.
de como eu nunca fui buscá-lo.
in the moss at the base of my thoughts,
no musgo da base de meus pensamentos,
of my freedom attempts.
de minhas tentativas de liberdade.
in the time of civil unrest,
na época de agitação civil,
arching like a broken-winged sparrow,
de asas quebradas,
had a warrant out on him,
tinha um mandado contra ele
dude doesn't hear "Marc Joseph,"
diz meu nome no comunicado,
on the corner now,
na esquina agora,
I'm not fed to the beast today.
jogado aos leões hoje.
makes sure to give me a ticket
por estacionamento proibido,
in the hollow city,
para dirigir na cidade vazia,
in the age of autonomous vehicles.
na era dos veículos autônomos.
and my internet is broken,
e minha internet caísse,
that I don't love my son enough
o bastante para lhe dizer:
don't care about your rights, yo.
happening in my head
principalmente em minha mente
and Marvin Gaye comes on the radio.
e começa a tocar Marvin Gaye no rádio.
that I almost never said,
é o adeus que eu quase nunca disse,
in the friendly sky
against the fading baseline.
contra a linha de base efêmera.
for the existential moment.
para o momento existencial.
is its own genre of experience.
é seu próprio gênero de experiência.
why you sing like an angel,
você canta como um anjo,
why heaven bends to your voice.
com por que o céu se inclina à sua voz.
the cop in the rearview mirror
é um ingresso para viajar ou morrer.
of the fraction that survives.
da facção da fração que sobrevive.
of your telepathic goodbye,
de um adeus por telepatia,
in Marvin's upper register
no registro superior de Marvin
of America at its worst.
of the restless dead,
dos mortos irrequietos,
mistakes and live through them,
e viver por meio deles,
misericórdia de mim,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Marc Bamuthi Joseph - Arts activist, spoken word artistTED Fellow Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a curator of words, ideas and protagonists. His bold, poetically-driven work investigates social issues and cultural identity.
Why you should listen
Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a steadfast believer in empathy as the most valuable currency in building community, and he seeks to spark curiosity and dialogue about freedom, compassion and fearlessness through pioneering arts stewardship and education. A 2017 TEDGlobal Fellow, Bamuthi graced the cover of Smithsonian Magazine as one of America's Top Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences; artistically directed HBO's "Russell Simmons presents Brave New Voices"; and is an inaugural recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship, which annually recognizes 50 of the country’s greatest living artists. Dance Magazine named him a Top Influencer in 2017.
Bamuthi's evening-length work, red black and GREEN: a blues, was nominated for a 2013 Bessie Award for "Outstanding Production (of a work stretching the boundaries of a traditional form)" and he has won numerous grants including from the National Endowment for the Arts and Creative Capital Foundation. His noted work /peh-LO-tah/ is inspired by soccer and Bamuthi's first generation American experience, intersecting global economics, cross-border fan culture and the politics of joy.
Bamuthi is the founding Program Director of the non-profit Youth Speaks, and he is a co-founder of Life is Living, a national series of one-day festivals which activate under-resourced parks and affirm peaceful urban life. His essays have been published in Harvard Education Press; he has lectured at more than 200 colleges, has carried adjunct professorships at Stanford and Lehigh, among others, and currently serves as Chief of Program and Pedagogy at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
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