Marc Bamuthi Joseph: "You Have the Rite"
马克·巴姆提·约瑟夫: “你有仪式”
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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Air Jordan 4s for Christmas.
的鞋作为圣诞礼物。
episode of "Black-ish."
偷走圣诞礼物的绿毛鬼精灵。
on my Black man feet.
freedom days back fast enough.
年轻的自由时光。
有一次我狂奔着
on the Upper East Side.
boys are the stupidest.
barely getting away
is stewarding this tradition well.
也很好继承了这一传统。
and Marvin Gaye on repeat.
和沉浸在马文·盖伊歌声的年纪。
and older than Emmett Till.
比无辜被残害致死的艾默特·蒂尔年长。
enter his prime suspect years:
等待正式迈入“头号犯罪嫌疑人”生涯:
the threat of communities from below.
是从下层社区发出的威胁信号。
humans have no natural predator,
genetically embedded and instinctual
and then walks around them,
然后从他们身边走过,
half-eaten gazelles,
悄无声息的狮子,
on some Nat Geo shit.
国家地理的《美国与黑体》。
broken "Fortnite" thing
under the eye of my filming iPhone,
是那么快乐无比,朝气蓬勃,
who has just salvaged a draw.
的胜利之舞。
considering the odds that I'm going to die
想着自己可能要完蛋了,
who expects that in 18 minutes,
只有15分钟的路程,
的相机来捕捉这一刻。
to capture this moment, so.
when I was 16 getting ready for the SAT,
我学到了很多重要的单词,
that really speaks is my skin.
仿佛说明了一切。
on 12th and Broadway,
的公共汽车站上,
a police car pulls up behind me,
我正好把钱掏出来,
that earnest Black man face.
一种“哎呀,被抓到了。”的表情,
and then hits the siren,
然后按响了警铃,
another patrol car now, four cops now,
又来了一辆巡逻车,现在是四个警察了,
hands behind my back, shackled.
被扭在身后,戴上了镣铐。
only until I'm scared and then sad.
后来又变成害怕和悲伤,
before my own death.
before he realizes
formed memory of me
I never came for him.
让他失望至极。
in the moss at the base of my thoughts,
的愤怒却如雨后春笋般不断涌现,
of my freedom attempts.
in the time of civil unrest,
在社会动荡时期的精神,
arching like a broken-winged sparrow,
如断翅的麻雀在空中飘荡,
had a warrant out on him,
dude doesn't hear "Marc Joseph,"
这家伙没听见“马克·约瑟夫”,
on the corner now,
7辆车和18个警察,
I'm not fed to the beast today.
makes sure to give me a ticket
给我开了张公交车区
in the hollow city,
在这座空空荡荡的城里开车,
in the age of autonomous vehicles.
他能在车流中自由穿行。
and my internet is broken,
好像我的互联网掉线了,
今天的殉道者名字一样,
that I don't love my son enough
don't care about your rights, yo.
我真不在乎你的权利,
happening in my head
马文·盖伊的声音从收音机里传出,
and Marvin Gaye comes on the radio.
that I almost never said,
几乎从未说过的再见,
他脖子上的一缕气味,
in the friendly sky
高高飞翔的一个请求,
against the fading baseline.
对抗不断消逝的底线。
for the existential moment.
is its own genre of experience.
why you sing like an angel,
why heaven bends to your voice.
俯听你的声音有关。
the cop in the rearview mirror
后视镜里的警察
生死攸关的罚单。
of the fraction that survives.
的那一小部分人。
of your telepathic goodbye,
你心灵感应式的告别,
in Marvin's upper register
of America at its worst.
of the restless dead,
升入天国的羽毛,
mistakes and live through them,
可以自由地犯错误,并在错误中生活,
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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