ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Clint Smith - Poet, educator
Clint 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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Clint Smith: How to raise a black son in America

Клинт Смит: Хар арьст хүүгээ Америкт хэрхэн өсгөх вэ?

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Хүүхэд байхад бид бүгд л ээж аав, багш нараас толгой эргэм олон зүйлсийг сонсдог. Энэ нь бяцхан Клинт Смитэд машины харанхуй зогсоолд цагаан арьст найзуудтайгаа усан буугаар байлдаж байсан тэр нэгэн орой тодорхой болсон юм. Энэхүү сэтгэл хөдөлгөм илтгэлдээ яруу найрагч тэрээр өөрийн эцгийн ууртай бөгөөд айдастай тэр нэгэн үдшийг буулган харуулсан юм.
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00:12
Growing up, I didn't always understand
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Бага байхдаа би яагаад
аав ээж хоёрын дагадаг
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why my parents made me
follow the rules that they did.
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энэ олон дүрмийг дагах ёстойгоо
ойлгодоггүй байсан.
00:17
Like, why did I really
have to mow the lawn?
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Яагаад зүлгээ тайрах ёстой гэж?
00:20
Why was homework really that important?
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Гэрийн даалгавар яагаад тийм чухал гэж?
00:23
Why couldn't I put jelly beans
in my oatmeal?
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Яагаад зутандаа чихэр хийж болохгүй гэж?
00:27
My childhood was abound
with questions like this.
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Хүүхэд нас минь ийм
асуултаар дүүрэн байсан.
00:30
Normal things about being a kid
and realizing that sometimes,
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Хүүхэд байхад яагаад гэдгийг мэдэхгүй ч
00:34
it was best to listen to my parents
even when I didn't exactly understand why.
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ээж аавынхаа үгийг сонсох нь
хамгийн зөв юм байна гэж ойлгосон.
00:38
And it's not that they didn't want
me to think critically.
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Тэд намайг өөрийнхөөрөө
сэтгэхийг хүсээгүйдээ биш.
00:41
Their parenting always sought
to reconcile the tension
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Биднийг хүмүүжүүлэхдээ тэд үргэлж
00:44
between having my siblings and I
understand the realities of the world,
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бодит байдлыг ойлгуулахаас гадна
эрхийн тэнцвэргүй байдлыг
00:47
while ensuring that we never accepted
the status quo as inevitable.
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хүлээн зөвшөөрүүлэхгүйн төлөө зүтгэсэн.
00:51
I came to realize that this,
in and of itself,
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Энэ нь хүмүүжлийн маш зөв хэлбэр байсныг
00:54
was a very purposeful form of education.
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би ойлгосон.
00:58
One of my favorite educators,
Brazilian author and scholar Paulo Freire,
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Миний дуртай сурган хүмүүжүүлэгч
Бразилийн зохиолч Паоло Фрейри
01:02
speaks quite explicitly
about the need for education
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боловсролыг соён гэгээрүүлэх,
хүн чанарыг түгээхийн тулд
01:05
to be used as a tool for critical
awakening and shared humanity.
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ашиглах хэрэгтэйг тодорхой илэрхийлдэг.
"Хэлмэгдэгсдийг сурган хүмүүжүүлэх" гэдэг
хамгийн алдартай номондоо
01:09
In his most famous book,
"Pedagogy of the Oppressed,"
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01:12
he states, "No one can be
authentically human
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тэрээр "Бусдыг хүн байхад нь саад бологч
хэзээ ч жинхэнэ хүн байж чадахгүй" гэсэн.
01:17
while he prevents others from being so."
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01:20
I've been thinking a lot about this
lately, this idea of humanity,
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Би сүүлийн үед хүн чанарын тухай
нилээд бодож үзсэн.
01:23
and specifically, who in this world
is afforded the privilege
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Ялангуяа ямар хүнд
"жинхэнэ хүнлэг" гэж
хэлүүлэх эрх олддог вэ?
01:27
of being perceived as fully human.
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01:30
Over the course of
the past several months,
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Сүүлийн хэдэн сар бид
01:32
the world has watched
as unarmed black men, and women,
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хар арьст эрэгтэй, эмэгтэй хүмүүс
01:35
have had their lives taken
at the hands of police and vigilante.
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гэмгүй атлаа цагдаа, хүчний
гарт амиа алдахыг харлаа.
01:39
These events and all that
has transpired after them
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Эдгээр үйл явдлууд,
мөн үүнээс үүдсэн хэргүүд
01:42
have brought me back to my own childhood
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миний өөрийн хүүхэд насыг санагдуулж
01:44
and the decisions that my parents made
about raising a black boy in America
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Америкт өнгөт арьстан хүүхэд өсгөх явцад
аав ээжийнхээ гаргасан шийдвэрийг
01:49
that growing up, I didn't always
understand in the way that I do now.
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өмнө ойлгож байгаагүйгээрээ
ойлгох болсон.
Зөвхөн миний аюулгүй байдлын төлөө
01:53
I think of how hard it must have been,
how profoundly unfair it must have felt
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хүүхэд насны минь зарим хэсгийг
надаас булаах мэт үйлдэл нь
01:58
for them to feel like they had
to strip away parts of my childhood
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02:02
just so that I could come home at night.
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ямар хэцүү байсан гэдгийг ойлгосон.
02:05
For example, I think of how one night,
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Жишээ нь, би 12 настай байхдаа
02:07
when I was around 12 years old, on an
overnight field trip to another city,
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өөр хот руу хоногоор аялалд явсан.
02:11
my friends and I bought Super Soakers
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Орой нь найзуудтайгаа хамт усан буу авч
02:13
and turned the hotel parking lot
into our own water-filled battle zone.
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зочид буудлын машины зогсоол дээр
усаар байлдсан.
02:18
We hid behind cars,
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Машины ард нуугдан
02:19
running through the darkness that
lay between the streetlights,
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гудамжны гэрэл дундах
харанхуйд гүйлдэн
02:22
boundless laughter ubiquitous
across the pavement.
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хүүхдийн инээд хаа сайгүй
хангинаж байлаа.
02:26
But within 10 minutes,
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Гэтэл арван минутын дараа
02:28
my father came outside,
grabbed me by my forearm
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аав минь гарч ирээд
бугуйнаас чирэн
02:31
and led me into our room
with an unfamiliar grip.
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өрөө рүү маань намайг дагуулан орсон.
02:34
Before I could say anything,
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Найзуудын минь өмнө ичгүүртэй байдалд
02:36
tell him how foolish he had
made me look in front of my friends,
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оруулсаныг нь хэлэхээс өмнө
02:39
he derided me for being so naive.
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намайг ямар гэнэн болчимгүй
байсныг минь тэр хэллээ.
02:42
Looked me in the eye,
fear consuming his face,
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Айдас бүрхсэн нүдээрээ
над руу харан:
02:47
and said, "Son, I'm sorry,
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"Хүү минь, намайг уучлаарай,
02:49
but you can't act the same
as your white friends.
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гэхдээ чи цагаан арьст найзуудтайгаа
адилхан загнаж болохгүй.
02:52
You can't pretend to shoot guns.
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Буудаж тоглож болохгүй.
02:55
You can't run around in the dark.
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Харанхуйд хөөцөлдөж, гүйж болохгүй.
02:57
You can't hide behind anything
other than your own teeth."
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Юуны ч араар нуугдаж болохгүй" гэв.
03:00
I know now how scared he must have been,
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Түүний ямар их айж байсныг
би одоо ойлгосон.
03:03
how easily I could have fallen
into the empty of the night,
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Хэн нэгэн усан бууг минь
жинхэнэтэй андуурсан бол
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that some man would mistake this water
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би тэр шөнийн харанхуйд алга болж
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for a good reason to wash
all of this away.
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өнөөдөр энд байхгүй байсан.
Иймэрхүү захиас бүх л амьдралын
минь турш байсан.
03:13
These are the sorts of messages I've been
inundated with my entire life:
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03:16
Always keep your hands where they
can see them, don't move too quickly,
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Гараа үргэлж харагдах газар байлгах,
хэт хурдан хөдлөхгүй байх,
нар жаргаснаас хойш юүдэнтэй малгай
өмсөхгүй байх гээд л.
03:20
take off your hood when the sun goes down.
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03:22
My parents raised me and my siblings
in an armor of advice,
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Ээж аав маань биднийг алдаж,
03:25
an ocean of alarm bells so someone
wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs,
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дурсамжаас өөр зүйлгүй үлдэхгүй гэсэндээ
аюулын дохиогоор дүүрэн далайд
03:28
so that they wouldn't make
a memory of this skin.
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захиасын дуулгаар хуяглан өсгөсөн.
03:31
So that we could be kids,
not casket or concrete.
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Биднийг авсанд биш, амьд байгаасай гэж.
03:33
And it's not because they thought it
would make us better than anyone else
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Биднийг хэн нэгнээс
илүү гаргах гэсэндээ биш,
зүгээр л дэргэдээ байлгах гэсэндээ.
03:37
it's simply because they wanted
to keep us alive.
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03:39
All of my black friends were raised
with the same message,
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Бүх хар арьст найзууд минь
адилхан зүйл сонсож,
03:42
the talk, given to us
when we became old enough
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газарт шаахад бэлхэн хадаас
болох нас нь ирэхэд
03:44
to be mistaken for a nail ready
to be hammered to the ground,
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энэ талаар бидэнтэй ярилцаж,
03:47
when people made our melanin
synonymous with something to be feared.
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арьсны минь өнгийг
айдастай хоршуулж өсгөсөн.
Гэхдээ хүүхэд байх эрхгүй байх нь
03:52
But what does it do to a child
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03:54
to grow up knowing that you
cannot simply be a child?
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түүнд хэрхэн тусдаг вэ?
Өсвөр насны сонирхол нь
амьд явахад чинь заналхийлж
03:58
That the whims of adolescence
are too dangerous for your breath,
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04:01
that you cannot simply be curious,
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сониуч байж болохгүй,
04:02
that you are not afforded the luxury
of making a mistake,
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алдаа хийх эрхгүй,
04:05
that someone's implicit bias
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хэн нэгний сохор гадуурхал
04:07
might be the reason you don't
wake up in the morning.
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чиний өглөө сэрэхгүй байх
шалтгаан байх вий.
04:10
But this cannot be what defines us.
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Энэ биднийг тодорхойлох
зүйл байж болохгүй.
04:11
Because we have parents
who raised us to understand
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Эцэг эх маань бидэнд
бие маань сумны бай биш,
04:14
that our bodies weren't meant
for the backside of a bullet,
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харин цаасан шувуу нисгэн, дээс харайж,
04:17
but for flying kites and jumping rope,
and laughing until our stomachs burst.
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элгээ хөштөл инээхэд
зориулагдсан гэдгийг заасан.
04:20
We had teachers who taught us
how to raise our hands in class,
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Багш нар маань бидэнд
гар маань зөвхөн бууж өгөх дохио биш,
харин ангидаа дээш
өргөхийг заасан.
04:23
and not just to signal surrender,
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04:25
and that the only thing we should give up
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Бидний татгалзах ганцхан зүйл нь
бид энэ хорвоод
04:27
is the idea that we
aren't worthy of this world.
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амьдрах хувьгүй гэдэг бодол гэж заасан.
04:29
So when we say that black lives matter,
it's not because others don't,
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Иймд хар арьстнууд ч
амьдрах эрхтэй гэдэг нь
бусад нь тийм эрхгүй учраас биш, харин
бид айдасгүй амьдрах эрхтэй болохоор тэр.
04:33
it's simply because we must affirm that we
are worthy of existing without fear,
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04:36
when so many things tell us we are not.
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Бусад нь юу ч гэж хэлж байсан хамаагүй.
04:38
I want to live in a world where my son
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Хүү минь төрсөн мөчөөсөө
гэм хийсэн мэт байхгүй, гартаа барьсан
тоглоом нь андуурагдахгүй
04:40
will not be presumed guilty
the moment he is born,
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where a toy in his hand isn't mistaken
for anything other than a toy.
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тийм дэлхийд амьдармаар байна.
04:47
And I refuse to accept that we can't
build this world into something new,
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Бид энэ дэлхийг өөрчилж
чадахгүй гэдэгтэй санал нийлэхгүй.
Энэ ертөнцөд хэн нэг хүүхдийн нэр
04:50
some place where a child's name
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doesn't have to be written
on a t-shirt, or a tombstone,
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цамц эсвэл булшин дээр бичигддэггүй,
04:54
where the value of someone's life
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хүний амины үнэ цэнэ
04:56
isn't determined by anything other
than the fact that they had lungs,
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уушигтай байсан гэдгээс
өөрөөр үнэлэгддэгүй,
05:00
a place where every single
one of us can breathe.
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хүн бүр амьд байх эрхтэй тийм газар
байгаасай гэж хүсч байна.
05:04
Thank you.
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Баярлалаа.
05:05
(Applause)
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(Алга ташилт)
Translated by Marla Munkh-Achit
Reviewed by Tuya Bat

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Clint Smith - Poet, educator
Clint 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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