Clint Smith: How to raise a black son in America
كلينت سميث: كيف تنشئ طفلًا أسود في أمريكا
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follow the rules that they did.
اتباع القوانين التي وضعاها.
have to mow the lawn?
in my oatmeal?
في صحن الشوفان خاصتي؟
with questions like this.
and realizing that sometimes,
وإدراك بأنه في بعض الأحيان،
even when I didn't exactly understand why.
حتى عندما لم أكن أفهم السبب بالضبط.
me to think critically.
to reconcile the tension
understand the realities of the world,
the status quo as inevitable.
بالوضع الراهن كأمر حتمي.
in and of itself,
Brazilian author and scholar Paulo Freire,
الكاتب والباحث باولو فريير،
about the need for education
عن الحاجة إلى استخدام التعليم
awakening and shared humanity.
"Pedagogy of the Oppressed,"
"علم أصول تدريس المضطهدين"،
authentically human
lately, this idea of humanity,
فكرة الإنسانية،
is afforded the privilege
الامتياز في هذا العالم
على أنه إنسان كامل.
the past several months,
as unarmed black men, and women,
at the hands of police and vigilante.
has transpired after them
about raising a black boy in America
بشأن تنشئة طفل أسود في أمريكا،
understand in the way that I do now.
مراحل نشأتي كما أفهمه الآن.
how profoundly unfair it must have felt
ومدى عمق الظلم الذي كانوا يشعرون به
to strip away parts of my childhood
انتزاع أجزاء من طفولتي
overnight field trip to another city,
في رحلة ليلية إلى مدينة أخرى،
into our own water-filled battle zone.
إلى أرض معركة مملوءة بالمياه.
lay between the streetlights,
across the pavement.
grabbed me by my forearm
with an unfamiliar grip.
made me look in front of my friends,
منظري غبيًا أمام أصدقائي،
fear consuming his face,
والخوف يملأ وجهه،
as your white friends.
other than your own teeth."
into the empty of the night,
all of this away.
inundated with my entire life:
كانت تلاحقني طيلة حياتي:
can see them, don't move too quickly,
لا تتحرك بسرعة،
in an armor of advice,
wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs,
لا يستطيع أحد سرقة النفس من رئاتنا،
a memory of this skin.
not casket or concrete.
لا توابيت ولا إسمنت.
would make us better than anyone else
يجعلنا أفضل من أي شخص آخر،
to keep us alive.
أرادوا إبقائنا على قيد الحياة.
with the same message,
عندما كبرنا بما فيه الكفاية
when we became old enough
to be hammered to the ground,
مسمار جاهز ليُدقّ في الأرض.
synonymous with something to be feared.
مرادفًا لشيء يخافون منه.
cannot simply be a child?
ببساطة لا يستطيع أن يكون طفلًا؟
are too dangerous for your breath,
of making a mistake,
wake up in the morning.
who raised us to understand
for the backside of a bullet,
للجانب الآخر من الرصاصة،
and laughing until our stomachs burst.
على الحبل والضحك حتى ننفجر من السعادة.
how to raise our hands in class,
كيف نرفع أيدينا في الصف،
aren't worthy of this world.
جديرين بالعيش في هذا العالم.
it's not because others don't,
ذلك ليس لأن حياة غيرهم غير مهمة،
are worthy of existing without fear,
بأننا نستحق العيش دون خوف،
بأننا لا نستحق.
the moment he is born,
for anything other than a toy.
على أنها شي آخر غير اللعبة.
build this world into something new,
تعمير هذا العالم إلى شيء جديد،
on a t-shirt, or a tombstone,
على قميصٍ أو شاهدةِ قبر،
than the fact that they had lungs,
one of us can breathe.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Clint Smith - Poet, educatorClint Smith's work blends art and activism.
Why you should listen
Clint Smith is a writer, teacher and doctoral candidate at Harvard University studying education, incarceration and inequality. Previously, he taught high school English in Prince George’s County, Maryland where, in 2013, he was named the Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Humanities Council.
Clint is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion, an Individual World Poetry Slam Finalist, and author of the poetry collection Counting Descent. He has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Cave Canem and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Educational Review and elsewhere. He was born and raised in New Orleans, LA.
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