Clint Smith: How to raise a black son in America
Clint Smith: Jak vychovat černého syna v Americe
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follow the rules that they did.
dodržovat některá pravidla.
have to mow the lawn?
sekat trávník?
in my oatmeal?
with questions like this.
and realizing that sometimes,
Stejně jako pochopení, že někdy
even when I didn't exactly understand why.
přesto, že jsem nerozuměl proč.
me to think critically.
přemýšlel samostatně.
to reconcile the tension
vyrovnat napětí
understand the realities of the world,
rozuměli realitě světa,
the status quo as inevitable.
jako nevyhnutelný.
in and of itself,
Brazilian author and scholar Paulo Freire,
brazilský autor a učenec Paulo Freire,
about the need for education
o potřebě, aby se výchova
awakening and shared humanity.
a sdílené lidskosti.
"Pedagogy of the Oppressed,"
"Pedagogika utlačených",
authentically human
autenticky lidský,
lately, this idea of humanity,
o té myšlence lidskosti,
is afforded the privilege
je dopřáno privilegium
the past several months,
as unarmed black men, and women,
černochům a černoškám
at the hands of police and vigilante.
skupiny občanské sebeobrany.
has transpired after them
co se odehrálo po nich
about raising a black boy in America
ohledně výchovy černošského chlapce v USA.
understand in the way that I do now.
jako jim rozumím nyní.
how profoundly unfair it must have felt
jak hluboce nespravedlivé to bylo,
to strip away parts of my childhood
overnight field trip to another city,
do jiného města,
into our own water-filled battle zone.
ve vlastní vodní bitevní plochu.
lay between the streetlights,
veřejného osvětlení,
across the pavement.
napříč vozovkou.
grabbed me by my forearm
with an unfamiliar grip.
do našeho pokoje.
made me look in front of my friends,
fear consuming his face,
strach pohltil jeho obličej,
as your white friends.
tví bílí kamarádi.
other than your own teeth."
jiného než za vlastní zuby."
into the empty of the night,
do spárů noci,
all of this away.
inundated with my entire life:
zahlcen celý život:
can see them, don't move too quickly,
nepohybuj se příliš rychle,
in an armor of advice,
v brnění z rad,
wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs,
aby nám nikdo neukradl vzduch z plic,
a memory of this skin.
nezbyla jen vzpomínka.
not casket or concrete.
ne rakvemi či betonem.
would make us better than anyone else
že tak budeme lepší než ostatní,
to keep us alive.
abychom zůstali naživu.
with the same message,
byli vychováni se stejným poselstvím,
when we became old enough
byli dost staří.
to be hammered to the ground,
připravený k zatlučení do země.
synonymous with something to be feared.
synonymum něčeho obávaného.
cannot simply be a child?
nemůžete být dítětem?
are too dangerous for your breath,
nebezpečné vašemu dechu,
of making a mistake,
udělat chybu,
wake up in the morning.
who raised us to understand
abychom rozuměli,
for the backside of a bullet,
pro kulky,
and laughing until our stomachs burst.
švihadlo a smích k popukání.
how to raise our hands in class,
jak se rukama hlásit ve třídě,
aren't worthy of this world.
it's not because others don't,
záleží, není to proto, že na ostatních ne.
are worthy of existing without fear,
hodni existence bez strachu,
the moment he is born,
od chvíle zrození,
for anything other than a toy.
pomýlena za něco jiného než hračku.
build this world into something new,
přestavět tento svět v něco nového,
on a t-shirt, or a tombstone,
than the fact that they had lungs,
skutečností, že má plíce,
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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