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Shaka Senghor: Why your worst deeds don’t define you
Šaka Sengor (Shaka Senghor): Zašto vaša najgora dela ne definišu ono što vi jeste
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1991. godine, Šaka Sengor je upucao i ubio čoveka. Bio je, kako kaže "diler droge sa prgavom naravi i poluatuomatskim pištoljem." Utamničen za drugostepeno ubistvo, koje bi gotovo izvesno postalo kraj priče. Ali nije. Umesto toga, bilo je početak dugogodišnjeg putovanja ka iskupljenju, sa skromnom i osvešćujućom lekcijom za sve nas.
Shaka Senghor - Author
Using literature as a lifeline, Shaka Senghor escaped a cycle of prison and desperation. Now his story kindles hope in those who have little. Full bio
Using literature as a lifeline, Shaka Senghor escaped a cycle of prison and desperation. Now his story kindles hope in those who have little. Full bio
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Twenty-three years ago,
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Pre 23 godine,
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at the age of 19,
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kada sam imao 19 godina,
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I shot and killed a man.
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upucao sam i ubio čoveka.
00:21
I was a young drug dealer
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Bio sam mladi diler droge
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with a quick temper
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sa prgavom naravi
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and a semi-automatic pistol.
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i poluatuomatskim pištoljem.
00:30
But that wasn't the end of my story.
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Ali to nije bio kraj moje priče.
00:32
In fact, it was beginning,
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Zapravo, bio je početak,
00:36
and the 23 years since
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i 23 godine kasnije
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is a story of acknowledgment,
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postala je priča o priznanju,
00:42
apology and atonement.
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izvinjenju i iskupljenju.
00:46
But it didn't happen in the way
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Ali se nije dogodilo na način
00:47
that you might imagine or think.
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na koji biste mogli da zamislite.
Te stvari su se dogodile u mom životu
00:51
These things occurred in my life
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in a way that was surprising,
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na način koji je bio iznenađujuć
00:54
especially to me.
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posebno za mene.
00:56
See, like many of you,
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Kao mnogi od vas,
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growing up, I was an honor roll student,
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odrastajući, bio sam
cenjen i uzoran učenik,
cenjen i uzoran učenik,
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a scholarship student,
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sa stipendijom
01:03
with dreams of becoming a doctor.
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i snovima da postanem doktor.
01:05
But things went dramatically wrong
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Ali su stvari dramatično krenule loše
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when my parents separated
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kada su mi se roditelji rastali
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and eventually divorced.
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i na kraju razveli.
01:14
The actual events are pretty straightforward.
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Sami događaji su prilično jednostavni.
01:17
At the age of 17,
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Sa 17 godina
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I got shot three times
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upucan sam tri puta
01:21
standing on the corner of my block in Detroit.
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dok sam stajao na uglu
mog bloka u Detroitu.
mog bloka u Detroitu.
01:26
My friend rushed me to the hospital.
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Prijatelj me je odvezao u bolnicu.
01:28
Doctors pulled the bullets out,
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Doktori su izvukli metke,
01:32
patched me up,
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zašili me
01:33
and sent me back to the same
neighborhood where I got shot.
neighborhood where I got shot.
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i poslali me nazad u isti kraj
gde sam upucan.
gde sam upucan.
01:38
Throughout this ordeal,
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Kroz ovo teško iskustvo,
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no one hugged me,
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niko me nije zagrlio,
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no one counseled me,
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niko me nije posavetovao,
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no one told me I would be okay.
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niko mi nije rekao da ću biti dobro.
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No one told me that I would live in fear,
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Niko mi nije rekao da ću živeti u strahu,
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that I would become paranoid,
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da ću postati paranoičan
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or that I would react hyper-violently
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ili da ću reagovati hiperagresivno
01:56
to being shot.
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na to što sam upucan.
01:59
No one told me that one day,
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Niko mi nije rekao da ću jednog dana
02:02
I would become the person behind the trigger.
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postati osoba iza obarača.
02:06
Fourteen months later,
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Četrnaest meseci kasnije
02:08
at 2 a.m.,
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u 2 ujutru,
02:11
I fired the shots
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ispucao sam metak
02:13
that caused a man's death.
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koji je izazvao čovekovu smrt.
02:16
When I entered prison,
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Kada sam ušao u zatvor,
02:18
I was bitter, I was angry, I was hurt.
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bio sam ogorčen, besan, povređen.
02:24
I didn't want to take responsibility.
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Nisam hteo da preuzmem odgovornost.
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I blamed everybody from my parents
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Krivio sam svakoga, od roditelja
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to the system.
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do čitavog sistema.
02:32
I rationalized my decision to shoot
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Racionalizovao sam
svoju odluku da pucam
svoju odluku da pucam
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because in the hood where I come from,
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jer u kraju odakle potičem
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it's better to be the shooter
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bolje je da pucate
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than the person getting shot.
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nego budete upucani.
02:41
As I sat in my cold cell,
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Dok sam sedeo u hladnoj ćeliji,
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I felt helpless,
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osećao sam se bespomoćno,
02:46
unloved and abandoned.
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nevoljeno i napušteno.
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I felt like nobody cared,
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Osećao sam da nikoga nije briga
02:54
and I reacted
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i reagovao sam
02:56
with hostility to my confinement.
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sa negodovanjem prema svom zatočeništvu.
02:59
And I found myself getting
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Onda sam osetio kako tonem
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deeper and deeper into trouble.
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sve dublje i dublje u nevolju.
03:02
I ran black market stores,
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Vodio sam prodavnicu na crnoj berzi,
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I loan sharked,
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zelenašio sam
i prodavao drogu koja je
ilegalno krijumčarena
ilegalno krijumčarena
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and I sold drugs that were illegally smuggled
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03:10
into the prison.
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u zatvor.
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I had in fact become
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Zapravo sam postao
03:13
what the warden of the Michigan Reformatory called
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ono što bi upravnik popravnog doma
u Mičigenu nazvao
u Mičigenu nazvao
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"the worst of the worst."
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"najgori od najgorih."
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And because of my activity,
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Zbog moje aktivnosti,
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I landed in solitary confinement
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bačen sam u samicu
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for seven and a half years
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na sedam i po godina
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out of my incarceration.
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od svog zatočeništva.
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Now as I see it, solitary confinement
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Kada pomislim na to, samica je
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is one of the most inhumane and barbaric places
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jedno od najnehumanijih
i varvarskih mesta
i varvarskih mesta
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you can find yourself,
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u kojima se možete naći,
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but find myself I did.
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ali ja sam se tamo našao.
03:39
One day, I was pacing my cell,
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Jednog dana, dok sam bio u ćeliji
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when an officer came and delivered mail.
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stražar je došao i doneo mi poštu.
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I looked at a couple of letters
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Pogledao sam nekoliko pisama
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before I looked at the letter
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pre nego što sam pogledao pismo
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that had my son's squiggly handwriting on it.
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koje je imalo izobličen rukopis
mog sina na sebi.
mog sina na sebi.
I kad god bih dobio pismo od sina,
03:53
And anytime I would get a letter from my son,
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it was like a ray of light
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bilo je kao zrak svetla
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in the darkest place you can imagine.
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u najmračnijem mestu
u kom se možete zamisliti.
u kom se možete zamisliti.
04:00
And on this particular day, I opened this letter,
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Tog naročitog dana, otvorio sam pismo,
04:03
and in capital letters, he wrote,
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i velikim slovima je napisao:
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"My mama told me why you was in prison:
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"Mama mi je rekla zašto si u zatvoru:
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murder."
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ubistvo."
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He said, "Dad, don't kill.
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Rekao je: "Tata, ne ubijaj.
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Jesus watches what you do. Pray to Him."
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Isus posmatra šta radiš. Moli Mu se."
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Now, I wasn't religious at that time,
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Nisam bio religiozan u to vreme,
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nor am I religious now,
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niti sam sad,
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but it was something so profound
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ali bilo je nešto toliko duboko
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about my son's words.
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u rečima mog sina.
Učinilo je da ispitam
stvari u svom životu
stvari u svom životu
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They made me examine things about my life
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04:30
that I hadn't considered.
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koje nisam uzeo u obzir.
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It was the first time in my life
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To je bio prvi put u mom životu
04:34
that I had actually thought about the fact
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da sam zapravo pomislio na činjenicu
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that my son would see me as a murderer.
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da me sin vidi kao ubicu.
04:40
I sat back on my bunk
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Seo sam nazad na svoj ležaj
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and I reflected on something I had read
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i razmislio o nečemu što sam pročitao
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in [Plato],
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kod Platona
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where Socrates stated in "Apology"
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gde je Sokrat rekao
u "Odbrani Sokratovoj"
u "Odbrani Sokratovoj"
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that the unexamined life isn't worth living.
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da neistraženi život
nije vredan življenja.
nije vredan življenja.
04:53
At that point is when the transformation began.
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U tom momentu preobražaj je počeo.
04:58
But it didn't come easy.
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Ali nije došao lako.
05:03
One of the things I realized,
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Jedna stvar koju sam shvatio,
05:05
which was part of the transformation,
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koja je bila deo preobražaja,
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was that there were four key things.
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je da su postojale četiri ključne stvari.
05:11
The first thing was,
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Prva stvar je da
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I had great mentors.
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sam imao sjajne mentore.
05:16
Now, I know some of you all are probably thinking,
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Znam da neki od vas verovatno misle,
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how did you find a great mentor in prison?
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kako sam našao dobre mentore u zatvoru?
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But in my case,
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Ali u mom slučaju,
05:24
some of my mentors
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neki od mojih mentora
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who are serving life sentences
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koji su služili doživotne kazne su bili
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were some of the best people
to ever come into my life,
to ever come into my life,
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jedni od najboljih ljudi koji su
ikada ušli u moj život,
ikada ušli u moj život,
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because they forced me to look at my life honestly,
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jer su me primorali
da se iskreno zagledam u svoj život,
da se iskreno zagledam u svoj život,
05:33
and they forced me to challenge myself
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i primorali su me da dam sebi izazov
05:35
about my decision making.
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o donošenju svojih odluka.
05:37
The second thing was literature.
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Druga stvar je bila književnost.
05:41
Prior to going to prison,
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Pre nego što sam otišao u zatvor,
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I didn't know that there were so many brilliant
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nisam znao da postoji toliko briljantnih
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black poets, authors and philosophers,
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crnih pesnika, autora i filozofa,
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and then I had the great fortune
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a imao sam veliku sreću
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of encountering Malcolm X's autobiography,
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da se upoznam
sa autobiografijom Malkoma Iksa,
sa autobiografijom Malkoma Iksa,
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and it shattered every
stereotype I had about myself.
stereotype I had about myself.
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i razbila je svaki stereotip
koji sam imao o sebi.
koji sam imao o sebi.
06:00
The third thing was family.
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Treća stvar bila je porodica.
06:03
For 19 years, my father stood by my side
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19 godina, moj otac
je stajao na mojoj strani
je stajao na mojoj strani
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with an unshakable faith,
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sa nepotresnom verom
jer je verovao da imam ono što treba
06:10
because he believed that I had what it took
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06:11
to turn my life around.
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da se moj život izokrene.
06:14
I also met an amazing woman
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Takođe sam upoznao izvanrednu ženu
06:17
who is now the mother of
my two-year-old son Sekou,
my two-year-old son Sekou,
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koja je sada majka
mog dvogodišnjeg sina Sekua
mog dvogodišnjeg sina Sekua
06:20
and she taught me how to love myself
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i naučila me je kako da volim sebe
06:22
in a healthy way.
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na zdrav način.
06:26
The final thing was writing.
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Poslednja stvar bila je pisanje.
06:29
When I got that letter from my son,
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Kada sam dobio pismo od sina,
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I began to write a journal
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počeo sa da pišem dnevnik
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about things I had experienced in my childhood
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o stvarima koje sam iskusio u detinjstvu
06:36
and in prison,
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i u zatvoru
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and what it did is it opened up my mind to the idea
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i to je otvorilo moj um
06:42
of atonement.
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za ideju o ispaštanju.
06:45
Earlier in my incarceration, I had received
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Ranije tokom mog zatočeništva
primio sam
primio sam
06:47
a letter from one of the relatives of my victim,
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pismo od jedne od rođaka moje žrtve
06:50
and in that letter,
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i u tom pismu
06:53
she told me she forgave me,
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rekla mi je da mi oprašta
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because she realized I was a young child
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jer je shvatila da sam mlad momak
06:57
who had been abused
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koji je bio zloupotrebljen
06:58
and had been through some hardships
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i koji je prošao kroz nevolje
07:00
and just made a series of poor decisions.
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i napravio niz loših odluka.
07:03
It was the first time in my life
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To je bio prvi put u mom životu
07:05
that I ever felt open to forgiving myself.
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da sam se ikada osetio
otvoreno da oprostim sebi.
otvoreno da oprostim sebi.
07:13
One of the things that happened
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Jedna od stvari
07:14
after that experience is that
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koje su se desile nakon iskustva su
07:17
I thought about the other men who were incarcerated
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da sam mislio o drugim muškarcima
07:19
alongside of me,
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koji su zatočeni zajedno sa mnom
07:20
and how much I wanted to share this with them.
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i koliko sam želeo da to podelim sa njima.
07:23
And so I started talking to them about
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Stoga sam počeo da razgovaram sa njima
07:25
some of their experiences,
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o nekim od njihovih iskustava
07:27
and I was devastated to realize
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i bio sam ophrvan kada sam shvatio
07:29
that most of them came from
the same abusive environments,
the same abusive environments,
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da je većina njih došla iz istih
nasilnih okruženja
nasilnih okruženja
07:32
And most of them wanted help
and they wanted to turn it around,
and they wanted to turn it around,
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i većina njih je želela pomoć i želeli su
da preokrenu to
da preokrenu to
07:35
but unfortunately the system
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ali nažalost sistem
07:37
that currently holds 2.5 million people in prison
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koji trenutno drži 2,5 miliona ljudi
u zatvoru
u zatvoru
07:40
is designed to warehouse
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je stvoren da čuva
07:43
as opposed to rehabilitate or transform.
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umesto da rehabilituje i transformiše.
07:47
So I made it up in my mind
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Stoga sam odlučio u svojoj glavi
07:49
that if I was ever released from prison
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da ako ikada budem pušten iz zatvora
07:51
that I would do everything in my power
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da ću uraditi sve što je u mojoj moći
07:53
to help change that.
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da pomognem da se to promeni.
07:57
In 2010, I walked out of prison
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2010. godine izašao sam iz zatvora,
07:59
for the first time after two decades.
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po prvi put nakon dve decenije.
08:03
Now imagine, if you will,
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Zamislite sad, ako ćete,
08:04
Fred Flintstone walking into an episode
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Freda Kremenka kako ulazi u epizodu
08:07
of "The Jetsons."
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"Džetsonovih".
08:09
That was pretty much what my life was like.
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Tako nekako je moj život izgledao.
08:12
For the first time, I was exposed to the Internet,
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Po prvi put sam se izložio internetu,
08:15
social media,
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društvenim mrežama,
08:17
cars that talk like KITT from "Knight Rider."
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kolima koji govore poput KITT-a iz
serije "Najt Rajder".
serije "Najt Rajder".
08:21
But the thing that fascinated me the most
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Ali stvar koja me je najviše fascinirala
08:23
was phone technology.
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bila je mobilna tehnologija.
08:25
See, when I went to prison,
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Kada sam otišao u zatvor
08:26
our car phones were this big
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naši telefoni su bili ovoliko veliki
08:28
and required two people to carry them.
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i trebalo je dvoje ljudi da ih nosi.
08:30
So imagine what it was like when I first grabbed
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Zamislite kako je bilo kada sam
prvi put uzeo
prvi put uzeo
08:33
my little Blackberry
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moj mali Blekberi
08:35
and I started learning how to text.
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i počeo da učim kako da šaljem poruke.
08:37
But the thing is, the people around me,
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Interesantna stvar je da ljudi oko mene
08:38
they didn't realize that I had no idea
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nisu shvatali da nemam pojma
08:40
what all these abbreviated texts meant,
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šta sve te skraćenice u porukama znače,
08:43
like LOL, OMG, LMAO,
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poput LOL, OMG, LMAO,
08:48
until one day I was having a conversation
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dok jednog dana nisam vodio prepisku
08:49
with one of my friends via text,
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sa jednim od svojih prijatelja
preko poruke
preko poruke
08:52
and I asked him to do something,
and he responded back, "K."
and he responded back, "K."
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i pitao ga da uradi nešto a on mi je
odgovorio sa "K".
odgovorio sa "K".
08:56
And I was like, "What is K?"
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Pitao sam "Šta je K?",
08:59
And he was like, "K is okay."
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a on je odgovorio: "K je okej."
09:01
So in my head, I was like,
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Pitao sam se
09:02
"Well what the hell is wrong with K?"
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"Šta je pobogu sa K?"
09:05
And so I text him a question mark.
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Odgovorio sam mu sa upitnikom.
09:07
And he said, "K = okay."
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Rekao je: "K = okej."
09:11
And so I tap back, "FU." (Laughter)
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Otkucao sam mu: "FU." (Smeh)
09:16
And then he texts back, and he asks me
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A onda je odgovorio i pitao me je
09:17
why was I cussing him out.
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zašto ga psujem.
09:19
And I said, "LOL FU,"
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rekao sam "LOL FU",
09:22
as in, I finally understand.
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kada sam konačno shvatio.
09:23
(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
09:25
And so fast forward three years,
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Danas, tri godine kasnije
09:29
I'm doing relatively good.
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prilično se dobro držim.
09:31
I have a fellowship at MIT Media Lab,
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Vodim udruženje
sa Medijskom laboratorijom MIT-ja.
sa Medijskom laboratorijom MIT-ja.
09:33
I work for an amazing company called BMe,
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radim za fantastičnu kompaniju
po imenu BMe,
po imenu BMe,
09:37
I teach at the University of Michigan,
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predajem na Univerzitetu u Mičigenu,
09:39
but it's been a struggle
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ali je tu velika borba
09:41
because I realize that there are more
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jer shvatam da postoji mnogo
muškaraca i žena koji se vraćaju kuči
09:42
men and women coming home
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09:44
who are not going to be
afforded those opportunities.
afforded those opportunities.
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a koji neće moći
sebi da priušte te prilike.
sebi da priušte te prilike.
09:47
I've been blessed to work with some amazing
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Bio sam blagosloven da radim
09:49
men and women,
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sa nekim neverovatnim
muškaracima i ženama,
muškaracima i ženama,
09:52
helping others reenter society,
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pomažući drugima
da ponovo uđu u društvo,
da ponovo uđu u društvo,
09:53
and one of them is my friend named Calvin Evans.
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i jedan od njih je moj prijatelj
po imenu Kalvin Evans.
po imenu Kalvin Evans.
09:58
He served 24 years for a crime he didn't commit.
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Odslužio je 24 godine
za zločin koji nije počinio.
za zločin koji nije počinio.
10:01
He's 45 years old. He's currently enrolled in college.
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Ima 45 godina. Trenutno je
polaznik koledža.
polaznik koledža.
10:04
And one of the things that we talked about
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Jedna od stvari o kojima smo govorili
10:06
is the three things that I found important
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su tri stvari koje smatram važnim
10:08
in my personal transformation,
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u svom ličnom preobražaju,
10:09
the first being acknowledgment.
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a prva stvar je priznanje.
10:11
I had to acknowledge that I had hurt others.
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Morao sam da priznam
da sam povredio druge.
da sam povredio druge.
10:14
I also had to acknowledge that I had been hurt.
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Morao sam da priznam
i da sam bio povređen.
i da sam bio povređen.
10:17
The second thing was apologizing.
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Druga stvar je izvinjenje.
Morao sam da se izvinim
ljudima koje sam povredio.
ljudima koje sam povredio.
10:19
I had to apologize to the people I had hurt.
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10:21
Even though I had no expectations
of them accepting it,
of them accepting it,
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Iako nisam očekivao
da će oni to prihvatiti,
da će oni to prihvatiti,
10:23
it was important to do because it was the right thing.
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bilo je važno to uraditi
jer je to bilo ispravno.
jer je to bilo ispravno.
10:26
But I also had to apologize to myself.
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Morao sam da se izvinim i sebi.
10:29
The third thing was atoning.
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Treća stvar je pokajanje.
10:32
For me, atoning meant
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Za mene, pokajanje je značilo
10:33
going back into my community
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vraćanje u zajednicu
10:35
and working with at-risk youth
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i rad sa rizičnom omladinom
10:36
who were on the same path,
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koji su bili na istom putu,
10:38
but also becoming at one with myself.
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ali i pomirenje sa sobom.
10:42
Through my experience of being locked up,
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Kroz svoje iskustvo u zatočeništvu,
10:44
one of the things I discovered is this:
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jedna od stvari koje sam otkrio je ovo:
10:46
the majority of men and women
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većina muškaraca i žena
10:47
who are incarcerated are redeemable,
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koji su zatočeni mogu da se iskupe
10:51
and the fact is,
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i činjenica je da će se
10:52
90 percent of the men and
women who are incarcerated
women who are incarcerated
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90 posto muškaraca i žena
koji su zatočeni
koji su zatočeni
10:54
will at some point return to the community,
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u jednom trenutku vratiti u zajednicu
10:57
and we have a role in determining what kind
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i imaćemo ulogu u određivanju koja vrsta
10:59
of men and women return to our community.
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muškaraca i žena se vraća
u našu zajednicu.
u našu zajednicu.
11:02
My wish today
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Moja želja danas je
11:05
is that we will embrace
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da ćemo prihvatiti
11:09
a more empathetic approach
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empatičniji pristup
11:11
toward how we deal with mass incarceration,
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prema tome kako rešavamo
grupno zatočeništvo,
grupno zatočeništvo,
11:14
that we will do away with
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da ćemo se rešiti
11:15
the lock-them-up-and-throw-away-the-key mentality,
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mentaliteta po principu
zaključaj ih i baci ključ,
zaključaj ih i baci ključ,
11:18
because it's proven it doesn't work.
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jer je dokazano da to ne funkcioniše.
11:21
My journey is a unique journey,
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Moje putovanje je jedinstveno,
11:24
but it doesn't have to be that way.
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ali ne mora da bude tako.
11:27
Anybody can have a transformation
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Svako može da se preobrazi
11:29
if we create the space for that to happen.
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ako stvorimo prostor da se to desi.
11:32
So what I'm asking today
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Ono što vas pitam danas
11:34
is that you envision
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je da zamislite
11:35
a world where men and women
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svet gde muškarci i žene
11:38
aren't held hostage to their pasts,
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nisu taoci svoje prošlosti,
11:41
where misdeeds and mistakes
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gde vas prestupi i greške
11:43
don't define you for the rest of your life.
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ne određuju do kraja vašeg života.
11:46
I think collectively, we can create that reality,
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Ja mislim da kolektivno
možemo da stvorimo tu stvarnost
možemo da stvorimo tu stvarnost
i nadam se da vi isto tako smatrate.
11:49
and I hope you do too.
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11:50
Thank you.
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Hvala vam.
11:52
(Applause)
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(Aplauz)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Shaka Senghor - AuthorUsing literature as a lifeline, Shaka Senghor escaped a cycle of prison and desperation. Now his story kindles hope in those who have little.
Why you should listen
At the age of 19, Shaka Senghor went to prison fuming with anger and despair. Senghor was a drug dealer in Detroit, and one night, he shot and killed a man who showed up on his doorstep. While serving his sentence for second-degree murder, Senghor discovered redemption and responsibility through literature -- starting with The Autobiography of Malcolm X -- and through his own writing.
Upon his release at the age of 38, Senghor reached out to young men following his same troubled path, and published Live in Peace as part of an outreach program bringing hope to kids in Detroit and across the Midwest. His activism attracted the attention of the MIT Media Lab, and as a Director’s Fellow, Senghor has collaborated on imagining creative solutions for the problems plaguing distressed communities. His memoir, Writing My Wrongs, was published in 2013.
Shaka Senghor | Speaker | TED.com