Michael Tubbs: The political power of being a good neighbor
מייקל טאבס: הכוח הפוליטי שמאחורי שכנות טובה
Michael Tubbs is the youngest mayor in the history of the US to represent a city with a population of more than 100,000 residents. Full bio
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one thing I have in common with dentists.
במשותף עם רופאי שיניים.
the holiday of Halloween.
not from a dislike of cavities,
from a particular incident
I was 20 years old,
הייתי הרבה יותר צעיר, הייתי בן 20.
with mayors and councilors nationwide.
ראשי ערים ומועצות ברחבי המדינה.
began just like any other day.
and prepared to write my news clips.
והתכוננתי לכתוב את סיכום החדשות שלי.
which isn't that out the norm,
email, Facebook, Instagram, all that.
אימיילים, פייסבוק, אינסטגרם, כל אלה.
to hear maybe some church gossip,
אולי קצת רכילות מהכנסיה,
she had discovered.
שהיא גילתה.
anything I had ever heard from my mother.
still, muffled tone
was murdered last night,
in this country,
dealing with anger, rage, nihilism,
עם רגשות של כעס, זעם, ניהיליזם,
between action and apathy.
to put purpose to this pain.
כדי להעניק מטרה לכאב.
with feelings of survivor's guilt.
עם רגשות של אשמת השורד.
being at Stanford,
of me being at the White House
quite literally.
a little selfish and say,
to make the world a better place?
למקום טוב יותר?
of all the opportunities given to me
את כל ההזדמנויות שניתנו לי
and my immediate family is comfortable.
ויהיה נוח למשפחה המיידית שלי.
as a senior in college,
כתלמיד שנה ג' בקולג',
for a couple of reasons,
is far from a political dynasty.
מלהיות בעלת מורשת פוליטית.
have been incarcerated than in college.
מאשר כאלה שלמדו בקולג'.
my father is still incarcerated.
אבא שלי עדיין בכלא.
we had warm feelings from.
שהיו לנו רגשות חמים כלפיו.
neighborhoods I grew up in.
and no grocery stores,
and concentrated poverty.
far too many people in our country.
במדינה שלנו.
that created the school funding formulas,
נוסחאות מימון בתי הספר,
receive less per pupil spending
פחות תקציב לתלמיד
that made it likely for me to choose
למועמד שסביר שיבחר
a government actor.
Stockton was a very unlikely place.
a city of 320,000 people.
עיר בעלת 320,000 תושבים.
people run from, rather than come back to.
שאנשים ברחו ממנו ולא מקום שחוזרים אליו.
35 percent white,
10 percent African American,
10 אחוזים אפרו-אמריקאיים
in the country at that time
per capita than Chicago.
beyond the scope of any 21-year-old.
מעבר ליכולתו של כל בן 21.
when I feel overwhelmed,
כשאני מרגיש עמוס,
were far bigger than me
הרבה יותר גדולות ממני
a little divine intervention.
for my first council meeting,
my grandmother taught me.
שסבתא שלי לימדה אותי.
the governing frame we're using
בה אנו משתמשים
my grandmother told me
סבתא שלי סיפרה שלי
"Who was my neighbor?
"מי היה השכן שלי?
Jesus replied with a parable.
left on the side of the road,
and left to die.
saw the man on the side of the road,
ראה את אותו אדם בצד הדרך,
prayers that he gets better.
this particular group
there's nothing I can do to change it.
שיוכל הוא לעשות כדי לשנות את זה.
maybe a politician walked by.
and saw how beat up the man was,
וראה כמה אותו אדם חבול ופצוע
of violence, or fleeing violence.
אלימות חולפת.
"You know what?
let's build a wall.
בא נבנה חומה.
to be on the side of the road."
by his bootstraps,
and there's nothing I could do."
ואין כאן שום דבר שאני אוכל לעשות".
a good Samaritan came by,
שומרוני טוב עבר ליד,
משתקפים בעיניו,
because things are changing."
a reflection of himself.
he saw his common humanity.
האנושיות המשותפת לשניהם.
he did something about it,
at that nice Fairmont,
במלון הנחמד ההוא,
the diversity of Stockton,
will be to again answer the same question:
תהיה לענות שוב על אותה השאלה:
was tied up in everyone.
on the side of the road.
that charity isn't justice,
is necessary but not sufficient,
אבל לא מספיק,
Jericho Road, has a nickname.
the Ascent of Red,
is structured for violence.
it's conducive for ambushing.
of the road wasn't abnormal.
זה לא מצב לא-נורמלי.
that was structured to happen,
violence in our society.
is the avoidable impairment
היא הפגיעה הניתנת למניעה
about structural violence
our policies, our culture
התרבות שלנו
some people and disadvantage others.
יתרון לאנשים מסוימים וחסרון לאחרים.
much like the road in Jericho,
for the outcomes we complain about.
שאנחנו מתלוננים עליהם.
don't do well in school,
לא מצליחים בבית הספר,
to see wealth gaps by race and ethnicity.
פערי רווחה על רקע גזע ואתניות.
income pay disparities between genders,
פערים במשכורת בין המינים,
historically, has been structured to do,
נבנתה לעשות,
I want to share,
figured everything out,
conservative members in our community
בקהילה שלנו
for undocumented people
and I loved it.
lifetime membership pin.
בO'Reilly Factor. (תכנית חדשות שמרנית)
what he did to get such a gift.
לעשות כדי להשיג מתנה שכזו.
I had no idea how he got it.
לא היה לי מושג איך הוא השיג את זה.
to open a health clinic,
for undocumented people,
לאנשים ללא אזרחות,
this is for my neighbors."
at least in that instance.
I decided to run for mayor,
החלטתי להתמודד על תפקיד ראש העיר,
councilman wasn't enough
במשרה חלקית אינו מספיק
changes we need to see in Stockton,
המבניים הדרושים בסטוקטון,
by looking at the data.
where I grew up,
היכן שגדלתי,
from a more affluent district.
ממחוז מבוסס יותר כלכלית.
zip code 95205 and 95219
people are making.
to live in an unsafe community
than grocery stores in the community.
חנויות אלכוהול מחנויות מכולת בקהילה.
but that's the reality.
אבל זו המציאות.
I wanted to see,
in the rate of unemployment,
difference in income,
was not going to cut it.
on the robbers and the road.
with violent crime.
של פשעים אלימים.
to run for office in the first place.
בחרתי להתמודד לתפקיד מלכתחילה.
was helping our community
לסייע לקהילה שלנו
victimized by violence
who enact pain in our society,
and contributing to gun violence,
they have been shot at,
but it helps explain it,
אבל זה עוזר להסביר אותה,
we have to see these folks as us, too.
גם באותם אנשים.
we've been working on two strategies:
עבדנו על שתי אסטרטגיות:
as much attention, as much love
כמה שיותר תשומת לב, כמה שיותר אהבה
from opportunities, from tattoo removals,
הסרת קעקועים,
a 40 percent reduction in homicides
של 40 אחוזים במקרי רצח
in violent crime.
has a 23 percent poverty rate.
it's a personal issue for me.
wouldn't just do a program,
to go around the edges,
the very structure
we launched a basic income demonstration,
הקמנו תכנית הדגמת הכנסה בסיסית,
randomly selected,
the median income of the city,
לרמת ההכנסה הממוצעת של העיר,
for a couple of reasons.
wrong in America,
can't afford one 400-dollar emergency.
מקרה חירום אחד של 400 דולר.
that something is structurally wrong
שמשהו לקוי מבחינה מבנית
six percent between 1979 and 2013.
בין 1979 ו-2013.
something is structurally wrong
שמשהו לקוי מבחינה מבנית
no one in here wants to do,
שאף אחד אחר פה לא רוצה לעשות,
כמו שכירות,
like childcare.
כמו מסגרות לילדים.
we have real issues.
יש לנו בעיות אמיתיות.
about the homelessness issue,
על עניין ההומלסים,
we're still experiencing.
we would be wise to go back
יהיה זה חכם אם נחזור
we were taught growing up,
שלמדנו בילדותנו,
each other as neighbors,
different from us,
our anxieties, our insecurities,
החרדות שלנו, חוסר הביטחון שלנו,
our biases -- but we should see ourselves.
אלא אנחנו צריכים לראות את עצמנו.
of restructuring the road.
העבודה החשובה יותר של שיפוץ הדרך.
some listening are saying,
structural violence and structural this,
על אלימות מבנית ואלימות כזו,
if you could come up from poverty,
אם אתה יכולת לצמוח מתוך העוני,
the term for that is exceptionalism.
for people to escape the structures.
עבור אנשים להימלט מהמבנים.
in our world are by design.
בעולם שלנו הם מתוכננים מראש.
just people, moral people,
אנשים מוסריים,
of not just joining hands as neighbors,
שהיא לא רק להחזיק ידיים כשכנים,
to restructure our road,
לשפץ את הדרך שלנו,
rooted in things like white supremacy.
היתה מלאה בדברים כמו גזענות לבנה.
has been rooted in things like misogyny.
היתה מלאה בדברים כמו מיזוגניה.
for far too many people.
we have a chance to change that.
יש לנו את ההזדמנות לשנות את זה.
and I'll end with one.
ואסיים באחד.
to go on the Freedom Rides
about restructuring the road.
Bob Singleton, asked me a question
שאל אותי שאלה
Alabama, and he said, "Michael,"
והוא אמר, "מייקל",
on August 4, 1961.
we wouldn't be on this bus.
לא היינו היום על האוטובוס הזה.
we wouldn't have the rights we enjoy."
לא היו לנו את הזכויות מהם אנחנו נהנים היום".
Barack Obama was born."
that the choice he made
שהבחירה שהוא עשה
a cup of water at a counter,
50 years later, to be president.
50 שנה לאחר מכן, להיות נשיא.
to be president?"
the question before us today.
recently isn't abnormal
that's been structured
aren't acts of God
they're policy choices,
הם תוצאות של מדיניות,
approved by voters like you.
שנבחרו על ידי בוחרים כמוכם.
and the awesome opportunity
What are we prepared to do today,
מה אתם מוכנים לעשות היום
50 years from now
בעוד חמישים שנה
rooted in white supremacy;
riddled with misogyny;
מלאה במיזוגניה;
with homophobia and transphobia
בהומופוביה וטרנספוביה
and Islamophobia and ableism,
that's structured
to be self-evident?
with certain unalienable rights,
and the pursuit of happiness.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Michael Tubbs - Mayor of the City of Stockton, CaliforniaMichael Tubbs is the youngest mayor in the history of the US to represent a city with a population of more than 100,000 residents.
Why you should listen
On November 8, 2016, Michael Tubbs was elected to serve as the mayor of the City of Stockton, California. Upon taking office in January 2017, Michael Tubbs became both Stockton’s youngest mayor and the city’s first African-American mayor.
Included in Fortune's 2018 "40 under 40," Forbes' 2018 list of the "30 Under 30" and The Root's 100, Tubbs's leadership, paired with an ambitious agenda, has received national recognition.
Tubbs has secured over $20 million in philanthropic capital to launch the Stockton Scholars, a place-based scholarship that aims to triple the number of Stockton students entering and graduating from college. Tubbs also brought Advance Peace to Stockton, a data-driven program that works to reduce gun violence in communities. Additionally, with an innovative public-private partnership supported by a $1,000,000 seed grant from the Economic Security Project, Tubbs launched the nation’s first municipal level basic income pilot, the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration.
Before becoming mayor, Tubbs served as Stockton's District 6 City Councilmember. Elected at age 22 in 2013, he became one of the youngest city councilmembers in the country. As a councilmember, Tubbs created the Reinvent South Stockton Coalition, championed the creation of the City's Office of Violence Prevention and was part of the council that led the city out of bankruptcy as Chair of the Audit and Legislative Committee.
Tubbs graduated from Stanford University in 2012 with a bachelor's and master's degree with honors. He has been a college course instructor for Aspire Public Schools and a Fellow at the Stanford Institute of Design and the Emerson Collective. He is a Stockton native and product of Stockton public schools.
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