Clint Smith: How to raise a black son in America
کلینت اسمیت: چگونه یک کودک سیاه پوست را درآمریکا بزرگ کنیم
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follow the rules that they did.
ایجاد کرده بودند را رعایت میکردند.
have to mow the lawn?
in my oatmeal?
with questions like this.
and realizing that sometimes,
even when I didn't exactly understand why.
حتی در زمانی که که دقیقا نمی فهمیدم چرا.
me to think critically.
to reconcile the tension
understand the realities of the world,
و من واقعیتهای جهان را می فهمم،
the status quo as inevitable.
نپذیریم که وضع موجود اجتناب ناپذیر است.
in and of itself,
که به خودی خود این امر
Brazilian author and scholar Paulo Freire,
نویسند و محقق برزیلی پائولو فریر،
about the need for education
awakening and shared humanity.
برای بیداری بشریت صحبت میکند.
"Pedagogy of the Oppressed,"
"تعلیم مستضعفان،"
authentically human
انسان اصیلی باشد
آنچه می خواهند باشد. "
lately, this idea of humanity,
این ایده از انسانیت،
is afforded the privilege
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
یک پسر بچه سیاهپوست
understand in the way that I do now.
how profoundly unfair it must have felt
که اساسا احساسشان چقدر باید برای این کار غیرعادلانه باشد.
to strip away parts of my childhood
overnight field trip to another city,
در سفر شبانه به یک شهر دیگر،
into our own water-filled battle zone.
در محل بازی خودمان.
lay between the streetlights,
across the pavement.
grabbed me by my forearm
with an unfamiliar grip.
made me look in front of my friends,
fear consuming his face,
ترس صورتش را گرفته بود،
as your white friends.
other than your own teeth."
غیر از دندانهای خودت پنهان شوی."
into the empty of the night,
all of this away.
inundated with my entire life:
can see them, don't move too quickly,
که آنها بتوانند دست هایت را ببینید،
in an armor of advice,
را با زرهی از نصیحت بزرگ کردند،
wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs,
می تواند نفس تو را از ریههایت بدزدد( تو را بکشند)،
a memory of this skin.
not casket or concrete.
نه تابوت یا سیمان.
would make us better than anyone else
که ما را را بهتر از دیگران بار بیاورند
to keep us alive.
ما را زنده نگه دارند.
with the same message,
با پیام مشابهی بزرگ شدند،
when we became old enough
به ما گفتند که
to be hammered to the ground,
را بچکاند که تو را به زمین بزند،
synonymous with something to be feared.
مترادف با چیزی که باید ازش ترسید می دانند.
cannot simply be a child?
یک بچه باشد چه اتفاقی میافتد؟
are too dangerous for your breath,
نفس کشیدن بسیار خطرناک است،
of making a mistake,
wake up in the morning.
who raised us to understand
for the backside of a bullet,
and laughing until our stomachs burst.
برای خندیدن تا دل درد بگیریم است.
how to raise our hands in class,
که چگونه دستمان را در کلاس بالا ببریم،
aren't worthy of this world.
it's not because others don't,
نه به دلیل اینکه زندگی دیگران مهم نیست،
are worthy of existing without fear,
ارزش زنده بودن بدون ترس را داریم،
the moment he is born,
for anything other than a toy.
با چیز دیگری جز اسباب بازی اشتباه گرفته نشود.
build this world into something new,
نمی توانیم جهان را دوباره از نو بسازیم،
on a t-shirt, or a tombstone,
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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