Clint Smith: The danger of silence
Clint Smith: O perigo do silencio
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upon the Civil Rights Movement,
sobre o Movemento polos Dereitos Civís,
dos nosos enemigos
nas súas propias vidas
have to be sources of shame.
que ser fonte de vergoña.
unha cultura nas aulas
de compartir a intimidade
at the beginning of the year:
ó comezar o curso:
no derradeiro punto,
que se pronunciasen
sobre os momentos
en Nova Orleans,
comprendes a súa santidade.
ás patacas fritidas,
que vai con eles.
valioso que podía sacrificar
foi coma se non me percatara
que renunciara a iso.
non era ser a conciencia de ninguén
atopar a miña propia conciencia,
non precisa de palabras
unha tunda por ser gai,
down as if I didn't even notice.
coma se non fora consciente.
because the bolt on the lock
en semanas porque o cadeado
touching the screen on my Apple
co meu móbil da mazá
those poor, unintelligent kids,"
a eses rapaces pobres, ignorantes",
we needed her money
que precisabamos dos seus cartos
precisaban de dignidade.
seguro nos pulmóns.
O silencio é o Katrina.
aren't enough body bags left.
suficientes bolsas de cadáveres.
É privilexio. É dor.
envolva a miña indecisión.
a ese home sen teito
os meus alumnos poden falar
one episode of "The Wire"
dos meus rapaces.
tivera un micrófono
da miña inhibición.
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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