Ruby Sales: How we can start to heal the pain of racial division
رابی سیلز: چگونه میتوانیم آسیبهای ناشی از تمایزهای نژادی را بهبود ببخشیم؟
Ruby Sales has preached around the country on race, class, gender and reconciliation. Full bio
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at Tuskegee University,
in the Southern freedom movement,
from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
of idealistic young people,
were spreading around the nation
for more than 400 years.
who cheated them out of their money.
for the demonstration,
of howling white men
seeing the danger that we faced,
این ما هستیم که تهدید به مرگ میشویم،
و ما را سوار کامیون شهرداری کرد،
conditions you can imagine.
شرایط قابل تصور را داشت؛
that came from toilets.
without any forewarning.
was a dangerous sign,
برایمان خطرناک است،
had also been forced to leave jail
مجبور به ترک زندان شده بودند
what had happened to them.
چه بر سرشان آمده، کشته شدند.
literally feel the pavement --
حرارت سنگ فرشها را و
come to the county,
که اهل همان محل بود،
in the doorway with a shotgun,
در دروازه ایستاده بود،
I'll blow your brains out!"
عکسالعملی نشان بدهم،
what was going on,
was standing in the line of fire,
که در مسیر گلوله بود،
دچار ضربه روحی شدیدی شدم،
important days in my life,
زندگی من بود،
از دو مرد سفیدپوست خیلی متفاوت
نژاد سفید پوست امریکا را
and the worst of white America.
با دیدن قتل جاناتان،
murder Jonathan before my eyes,
چنان عمیق بود که
چطور با این درد کنار بیایم.
the Southern freedom movement,
در مورد جنبش آزادی جنوب
and freedom fighters,
مبارزان آزادی طلب.
deadly trauma of racism,
با آسیب روحی کشنده ناشی از نژادپرستی
have been beaten and thrown in jail.
وبه زندان افتاده بودند.
and thrown in jail.
و به زندان انداخته شدند،
like Jonathan Daniels.
in black and brown people
در سیاهپوستها و رنگین پوستهایی
the vicious volley of racism
قرار میگیرند، میبینم و حس میکنم.
civil and human rights stripped away.
و انسانیشان پایمال می شود.
use stereotypes and myths
از افسانهها و کلیشهها
men who invade our bodies.
اعتراض میکنند،
and pay us unequal wages.
حقوق نابرابر به ما میدهند.
the same powerful white men
مورد خیانت قرار گرفتند، همانهایی که
رنگ پوستشان بلیتی برای
دیدم و حس کردم.
all of our identities
ما و تمام ابعاد وجودی ما را
to protect the status quo.
تا از موقعیت کنونی خود محافظت کند.
I said culture of whiteness,
set of beliefs,
and even religion,
over-and-against power structure
against people of color.
علیه رنگین پوستان طبقه بندی شده است.
as necessary and friendly insiders,
especially black people,
as a dehumanizing process
همچون جریانی تصور کنید
and interlocking identities,
gender and sexualities,
و گرایشات جنسی از بین می برد
و آن را به خدمت قدرت درآورد.
like white people,
I give hard assignments --
تکالیف سختی میدهم -
-که حق هم دارید-
and overwhelming."
with our authentic selves,
with the other aspects of our identities.
through our collective narratives.
نَقل جمعی به این هدف برسیم.
must contain our individual stories,
just create a paradigm
against another story.
به مقایسه می گذاریم.
that I have talked about tonight
دربارهشان صحبت کردم،
to providing us a pathway
another very important model.
هم حرف بزنم،
for racial justice
of redemption for everyone.
برای همه فراهم کنیم.
those very people who oppress us,
is tied into their redemption,
from unredemptive anger.
از خشم نابودگر، رهایی یابیم.
it grows even more complicated,
سختتر نیز خواهد بود.
بهره میبریم تا
that we indulge in every day.
تسلیمشان میشویم، دائمی کنیم.
آن را دائمی میسازیم
if we're going to humanize the future,
واجد صفات انسانی باشد،
نه برای پست و منحط کردنمان،
into the fullest of our capacities.
به زندگی بپردازیم.
فراهم آورد،
that we live in, every day of our lives.
زندگی میکنیم، فراتر رویم.
if we set our minds
متمرکز کنیم.
زخم نژادپرستی التیام یابد؟
and live into all of your identities?
حقیقیتان زندگی کنید؟
to cannibalize your multiple identities
هویتهای گوناگونتان ادامه دهید،
برتری ببخشید؟
into the fullest of your potential?
برای زندگی بهره ببرید؟
that I've given to you tonight,
the fullest of your identity
the future for yourselves,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ruby Sales - Activist, scholar, educatorRuby Sales has preached around the country on race, class, gender and reconciliation.
Why you should listen
Ruby Sales is the founder and director of the Spirit House Project. She joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s as a teenager at Tuskegee University and went to work as a student freedom fighter in Lowndes County, Alabama. She is one of 50 African Americans to be spotlighted in the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.
A deeply committed social activist, scholar, administrator, manager, public theologian and educator in the areas of civil, gender and other human rights, Sales has preached around the country on race, class, gender and reconciliation. She has done groundbreaking work on community and nonviolence formation, and also serves as a national convener of the Every Church A Peace Church Movement. Throughout her career, Sales has mentored young people and provided support and venues for an intergenerational community of developing and seasoned social justice performing and creative artists. She has a deep commitment to providing the education, practical experiences, and frame of references to contest racism and add their voices to the public conversations on the many streams of oppression that emerge from them.
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