Alice Goffman: How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison

Translator: Doris Kos Reviewer: Nika Kotnik

Na poti ameriških otrok v odraslost,

On the path that American children travel to adulthood,

two institutions oversee the journey.

sta dve instituciji, ki igrata pomembno vlogo.

The first is the one we hear a lot about: college.

O prvi neprestano veliko poslušamo: fakulteta.

Some of you may remember the excitement that you felt

Nekateri se še spomnite navdušenja, ki ste ga čutili,

when you first set off for college.

ko ste se pripravljali za faks.

Some of you may be in college right now

Nekateri ste v tem trenutku še študentje

and you're feeling this excitement at this very moment.

in ta občutek navdušenja še vedno čutite.

College has some shortcomings.

Faks ima kar nekaj pomanjkljivosti.

It's expensive; it leaves young people in debt.

Je drag in mlade ljudi porine v dolgove.

But all in all, it's a pretty good path.

A ne glede na vse, je še vedno dobra izbira.

Young people emerge from college with pride and with great friends

Mladina s faksa odide s ponosom in zelo dobrimi prijatelji,

and with a lot of knowledge about the world.

ter z veliko znanja o svetu.

And perhaps most importantly,

In, kar je morda najpomembnejše,

a better chance in the labor market than they had before they got there.

z boljšimi možnostmi za trg dela, kot so jih imeli prej.

Today I want to talk about the second institution

Danes pa bi vam rada govorila o tisti drugi instituciji,

overseeing the journey from childhood to adulthood in the United States.

ki prav tako igra pomembno vlogo na poti v odraslost v Združenih državah.

And that institution is prison.

Ta institucija pa je zapor.

Young people on this journey are meeting with probation officers

Mladina na tej poti se srečuje s častniki za pogojni odpust,

instead of with teachers.

namesto z učitelji.

They're going to court dates instead of to class.

Namesto na predavanja hodijo na sodišče.

Their junior year abroad is instead a trip to a state correctional facility.

Njihov prvi letnik zamenja pot v popravni dom.

And they're emerging from their 20s

Komaj so dopolnili 20 let,

not with degrees in business and English,

nimajo diplom iz Angleščine ali Poslovanja,

but with criminal records.

imajo pa kazensko evidenco.

This institution is also costing us a lot,

Tudi ta institucija nas veliko stane,

about 40,000 dollars a year

okoli 40 000 dolarjev na leto,

to send a young person to prison in New Jersey.

zato, da mladino pošiljamo v zapor v New Jerseyu.

But here, taxpayers are footing the bill

A v tem primeru so davkoplačevalci tisti, ki plačujejo

and what kids are getting is a cold prison cell

in tisto, kar otroci dobijo v mrzlih zaporniških celicah,

and a permanent mark against them when they come home

je trajno zaznamovanost, ko se vrnejo domov

and apply for work.

in se prijavijo za delo.

There are more and more kids on this journey to adulthood

Vedno več otrok gre po tej poti v odraslost,

than ever before in the United States and that's because in the past 40 years,

več kot kdajkoli prej v Združenih državah in to zato, ker je v zadnjih 40-ih letih

our incarceration rate has grown by 700 percent.

stopnja prestajanja zaporne kazni zrasla za 700 procentov.

I have one slide for this talk.

Imam en diapozitiv za ta govor.

Here it is.

Tukaj je.

Here's our incarceration rate,

To je naša stopnja prestajanja kazni,

about 716 people per 100,000 in the population.

približno 716 ljudi na 100 000 v populaciji.

Here's the OECD countries.

Tu so navedene države OESR.

What's more, it's poor kids that we're sending to prison,

Kar je pomembno so revni otroci, ki ji pošiljamo v zapor,

too many drawn from African-American and Latino communities

premnogi afriško-ameriškega in latino ozadja,

so that prison now stands firmly between the young people trying to make it

zato da lahko zapor trdno stoji med mladimi, ki si želijo uspeti

and the fulfillment of the American Dream.

in izpolnitvijo ameriških sanj.

The problem's actually a bit worse than this

Problem je v bistvu dosti hujši, kot to,

'cause we're not just sending poor kids to prison,

ker ne pošiljamo v zapor samo ubogih otrok,

we're saddling poor kids with court fees,

a jim nalagamo še sodne stroške,

with probation and parole restrictions,

z omejitvami za pogojni izpust

with low-level warrants,

in sodnimi nalogi

pa jih prosimo, da živijo v domovih za resocialzacijo in hišnem priporu,

we're asking them to live in halfway houses and on house arrest,

and we're asking them to negotiate a police force

ter da naj se pogajajo s policijo,

that is entering poor communities of color,

ki vstopa v ne-belske revne skupnosti ,

not for the purposes of promoting public safety,

a ne z namenom zagotavljanja varnosti,

but to make arrest counts, to line city coffers.

temveč zato, da izpolnijo normo aretacij in polnijo občinske blagajne.

This is the hidden underside to our historic experiment in punishment:

To je slaba stran tega našega zgodovinskega poskusa kazni:

young people worried that at any moment, they will be stopped, searched and seized.

mladina, ki jo neprestano skrbi, kdaj jih bo nekdo ustavil, pregledal in aretiral.

Not just in the streets, but in their homes,

Pa ne samo na ulicah, tudi v njihovih domovih,

at school and at work.

v šolah in v službi.

I got interested in this other path to adulthood

Za to drugo pot na poti v odraslost sem se začela zanimati,

when I was myself a college student

ko sem bila še študentka

attending the University of Pennsylvania

na Univerzi v Pensilvaniji,

in the early 2000s.

v začetku leta 2000.

Penn sits within a historic African-American neighborhood.

Penn leži v zgodovinski afriško-ameriški soseski.

So you've got these two parallel journeys going on simultaneously:

Tako imate v bistvu 2 vzporedni poti, ki se dogajata istočasno:

the kids attending this elite, private university,

otroke, ki obiskujejo to elitno in zasebno univerzo,

and the kids from the adjacent neighborhood,

ter otroke iz sosednje soseske,

some of whom are making it to college,

nekatere, ki bodo šli na faks,

and many of whom are being shipped to prison.

ter mnoge, ki jih pošiljajo v zapor.

In my sophomore year, I started tutoring a young woman who was in high school

V drugem letniku sem začela poučevati mlado žensko, ki je bila v srednji šoli

who lived about 10 minutes away from the university.

in je živela slabih 10 minut od univerze.

Soon, her cousin came home from a juvenile detention center.

Kmalu zatem je njen bratranec prišel iz centra za mladostniški pripor.

He was 15, a freshman in high school.

Star je bil 15, prvi letnik srednje šole.

I began to get to know him and his friends and family,

Počasi sem ga začela spoznavati, njegove prijatelje in družino

and I asked him what he thought about me writing about his life

in prosila sem ga za dovoljenje, da bi pisala o njem

for my senior thesis in college.

za svoje diplomsko delo.

This senior thesis became a dissertation at Princeton

To delo je postalo dizertacija za Princeton

and now a book.

in je sedaj knjiga.

By the end of my sophomore year,

Pred koncem drugega letnika

I moved into the neighborhood and I spent the next six years

pa sem se že preslila v sosesko in tam preživela šest let,

trying to understand what young people were facing as they came of age.

ter poskušala razumeti s čim se soočajo mladi ljudje, ko so dovolj stari.

The first week I spent in this neighborhood,

V prvem tednu, ko sem bila tam,

I saw two boys, five and seven years old,

sem videla 2 fantka, stara 5 in 7 let ,

play this game of chase,

ki sta se lovila,

where the older boy ran after the other boy.

kjer je starejši fantek lovil mlajšega.

He played the cop.

Igral je policaja.

When the cop caught up to the younger boy,

Ko je policaj ujel mlajšega fanta,

he pushed him down,

ga je porinil ob tla,

handcuffed him with imaginary handcuffs,

ga vklenil z namišljenimi lisicami,

took a quarter out of the other child's pocket,

mu vzel kovanec iz žepa,

saying, "I'm seizing that."

rekoč: "Tole ti bom zasegel."

He asked the child if he was carrying any drugs

Otroka je spraševal, ali ima pri sebi kaj drog,

or if he had a warrant.

ali če ima kak zaporni nalog.

Many times, I saw this game repeated,

Velikokrat sem videla to igro,

sometimes children would simply give up running,

dostikrat so otroci prenehali bežati

and stick their bodies flat against the ground

in se ulegli na tla

with their hands above their heads, or flat up against a wall.

z rokami nad glavo ali obrazom ob steno.

Children would yell at each other,

En drugemu so vpili:

"I'm going to lock you up,

"Zaprl te bom.

I'm going to lock you up and you're never coming home!"

Zaprl te bom in nikoli več ne boš prišel domov."

Once I saw a six-year-old child pull another child's pants down

Nekoč sem videla 6-letnega otroka, ki je drugemu otroku slekel hlače

and try to do a cavity search.

in ga poskušal pregledati še analno.

In the first 18 months that I lived in this neighborhood,

V prvih 18-ih mesecih mojega življenja v tisti soseski,

I wrote down every time I saw any contact between police

sem zapisala vsak kontakt med policijo

and people that were my neighbors.

in ljudmi, ki so bili moji sosedi.

So in the first 18 months,

Tako sem prvih 18 mesecev

I watched the police stop pedestrians or people in cars,

opazovala policiste, ki so ustavljali pešce ali ljudi v avtmobilih,

search people, run people's names,

jih preiskovali in preiskovali njihova imena,

chase people through the streets,

ali pa jih lovili po ulicah,

pull people in for questioning,

jih odpeljali na zaslišanja,

or make an arrest every single day, with five exceptions.

ali pa opravili aretacijo vsak dan, s petimi izjemami.

Fifty-two times, I watched the police break down doors,

52x sem videla policijo, ki je podrla vrata,

chase people through houses

lovila ljudi v njihovih hišah,

or make an arrest of someone in their home.

ali pa aretirala nekoga v njihovem domu.

Fourteen times in this first year and a half,

14x v tem letu in pol

I watched the police punch, choke, kick, stomp on or beat young men

sem gledala, kako policisti tepejo, brcajo, davijo mlade ljudi,

after they had caught them.

po tem, ko so jih ujeli.

Bit by bit, I got to know two brothers,

Počasi sem spoznala 2 brata,

Chuck and Tim.

Chuck and Tim.

Chuck was 18 when we met, a senior in high school.

Chuck je bil takrat star 18, v zadnjem letniku srednje šole.

He was playing on the basketball team and making C's and B's.

Bil je del košarkarske ekipe in pri pouku imel trojke in štirice.

His younger brother, Tim, was 10.

Njegov mlajši brat,Tim, pa je bil star 10 let.

And Tim loved Chuck; he followed him around a lot,

In Tim je oboževal Chucka; povsod mu je sledil,

looked to Chuck to be a mentor.

si želel, da bi mu bil Chuck mentor.

They lived with their mom and grandfather

Živela sta z mamo in dedkom

in a two-story row home with a front lawn and a back porch.

v dvonadstropni vrstni hiši, z zelenico spredaj in veradno zadaj.

Their mom was struggling with addiction all while the boys were growing up.

Njuna mama se je borila z odvisnostjo cel čas njunega odraščanja.

She never really was able to hold down a job for very long.

Nobene službe ni bila sposobna obdržati za dolgo časa.

It was their grandfather's pension that supported the family,

Dedkova pokojnina je bila tisti prihodek, ki jih je preživljal,

not really enough to pay for food and clothes

ki pa seveda ni zadoščal za hrano, oblačila

and school supplies for growing boys.

in šolske potrebščine za odraščujoča fanta.

The family was really struggling.

Družina se je resnično težko prebijala.

So when we met, Chuck was a senior in high school.

Ko smo se torej spoznali je bil Chuck v zadnjem letniku srednje šole.

He had just turned 18.

Ravno je dopolnil 18 let.

That winter, a kid in the schoolyard

Tisto zimo je neki otrok na šolskem dvorišču

called Chuck's mom a crack whore.

Chuckovi mami rekel vlačuga narkomanka.

Chuck pushed the kid's face into the snow

Chuck ga je potisnil z obrazom naprej v sneg

and the school cops charged him with aggravated assault.

in šolski policaji so ga obtožili za nasilni napad.

The other kid was fine the next day,

Napadeni otrok je bil v redu,

I think it was his pride that was injured more than anything.

mislim, da je bil njegov ponos bolj prizadet, kot karkoli drugega.

But anyway, since Chuck was 18,

Kakorkoli, ker je bil Chuck 18,

this agg. assault case sent him to adult county jail

je bil zaradi napada poslan v ječo

on State Road in northeast Philadelphia,

na State Roadu, v severozahodni Filadelfiji,

where he sat, unable to pay the bail -- he couldn't afford it --

kjer je sedel, ni mogel plačati varščine-- ni si je mogel privoščiti --

while the trial dates dragged on and on and on

datumi sojenja pa so se vlekli in vlekli,

through almost his entire senior year.

dokler se ni njegov zadnji letnik skoraj zaključil.

Finally, near the end of this season,

Končno, proti koncu sezone,

the judge on this assault case threw out most of the charges

je sodnik ovrgel večino obtožb

and Chuck came home

in Chuck je prišel domov

with only a few hundred dollars' worth of court fees hanging over his head.

s samo nekaj 100 dolarji vrednih sodnih stroškov, ki jih je moral plačati.

Tim was pretty happy that day.

Tim je bil tisti dan zelo vesel.

The next fall, Chuck tried to re-enroll as a senior,

Naslednjo jesen se je Chuck poskušal ponovno vpisati,

but the school secretary told him that

a mu je šolska tajnica povedala,

he was then 19 and too old to be readmitted.

da je bil z 19. leti prestar, da bi bil ponovno sprejet.

Then the judge on his assault case issued him a warrant for his arrest

Zatem je še sodnik, ki mu je sodil, izdal nalog za aretacijo,

because he couldn't pay the 225 dollars in court fees

ker ni mogel plačati 225-ih dolarjev za sodne stroške,

that came due a few weeks after the case ended.

ki bi jih moral plačati le nekaj tednov po koncu sojenja.

Then he was a high school dropout living on the run.

In tako je pustil šolo in začel živeti na begu.

Tim's first arrest came later that year

Timova 1. aretacija je prišla leto kasneje.

after he turned 11.

po tem, ko je dopolnil 11.

Chuck had managed to get his warrant lifted

Chucku je uspelo, da so nalog umaknili

and he was on a payment plan for the court fees

in vključil se je v plan plačevanja sodnih stroškov,

and he was driving Tim to school in his girlfriend's car.

ko je vozil Tima v šolo v avtu svoje punce.

So a cop pulls them over, runs the car,

Ustavil ju je policaj, pregledal avto

and the car comes up as stolen in California.

in ugotovil, da je bil le-ta ukraden v Kaliforniji.

Chuck had no idea where in the history of this car it had been stolen.

Chuck ni imel pojma, kako je bil avto lahko ukraden.

His girlfriend's uncle bought it from a used car auction

Stric njegove punce ga je kupil na dražbi rabljeni avtomobilov

in northeast Philly.

v severozahodni Filiji.

Chuck and Tim had never been outside of the tri-state,

Chuck in Tim nista bila še nikoli zunaj države,

let alone to California.

kaj šele v Kaliforniji.

But anyway, the cops down at the precinct

A kljub vsemu so policaji na postaji

charged Chuck with receiving stolen property.

Chucka obtožili sprejema ukradene lastnine.

And then a juvenile judge, a few days later,

In kasneje je mladostniško sodišče, nekaj dni za tem,

charged Tim, age 11,

obtožilo Tima, starega 11,

with accessory to receiving a stolen property

za pomoč pri sprejemanju ukradene lastnine

and then he was placed on three years of probation.

in dodelili so mu tri leta pogojne kazni.

With this probation sentence hanging over his head,

Ker mu je ta kazen visela nad glavo

Chuck sat his little brother down

se je Chuck z njim usedel

and began teaching him how to run from the police.

in ga začel učiti, kako bežati pred policijo.

They would sit side by side on their back porch

Sedela sta en ob drugem na verandi,

looking out into the shared alleyway

gledala na skupno ulico

and Chuck would coach Tim how to spot undercover cars,

in Chuck je Tima učil, kako opaziti avte pod krinko,

how to negotiate a late-night police raid, how and where to hide.

kako spogajati nočno racijo, kako in kje se skriti.

I want you to imagine for a second

Za trenutek si predstavljajte,

what Chuck and Tim's lives would be like

kakšno bi bilo njuno življenje,

if they were living in a neighborhood where kids were going to college,

če bi živela v soseski, kjer so otroci hodili na faks

not prison.

in ne v zapor.

A neighborhood like the one I got to grow up in.

V taki soseski, kjer sem sama imela možnost odraščati.

Okay, you might say.

Ok, verjetno boste rekli,

But Chuck and Tim, kids like them, they're committing crimes!

a otroci kot sta onadva delajo zločine,

Don't they deserve to be in prison?

ali si ne zaslužijo biti v zaporu?

Don't they deserve to be living in fear of arrest?

Si ne zaslužijo živeti v strahu pred aretacijo?

Well, my answer would be no.

No, moj odgovor bi bil ne.

They don't.

Ne zaslužijo si tega.

And certainly not for the same things that other young people

Še posebno pa ne zaradi stvari, zaradi katerih drugi otroci,

with more privilege are doing with impunity.

ki imajo več privilegijev, niso kaznovani.

If Chuck had gone to my high school,

Če bi Chuck hodil na mojo srednjo šolo,

that schoolyard fight would have ended there,

bi se tisti pretep na dvorišču tam tudi končal,

as a schoolyard fight.

bil bi samo pretep na dvorišču.

It never would have become an aggravated assault case.

Nikoli ne bi postal primer nasilnega napada.

Not a single kid that I went to college with

Niti en otrok, s katerim sem hodila na faks,

has a criminal record right now.

danes nima kriminalne kartoteke.

Not a single one.

Niti eden.

But can you imagine how many might have if the police had stopped those kids

Si lahko predstavljate koliko bi jo lahko imelo, če bi jih ustavili policaji

and searched their pockets for drugs as they walked to class?

in iskali drogo v njihovih žepih na poti na predavanja?

Or had raided their frat parties in the middle of the night?

Ali pa vdrli na njihove zabave sredi noči?

Okay, you might say.

Ok, verjetno boste rekli,

But doesn't this high incarceration rate

ali visoka stopnja zaporne kazni ne pomeni

partly account for our really low crime rate?

delno tudi nizke stopnje zločina?

Crime is down. That's a good thing.

Zločin se je zmanjšal. To je dobra stvar.

Totally, that is a good thing. Crime is down.

V glavnem je to dobra stvar. Zločin se je zmanjšal.

It dropped precipitously in the '90s and through the 2000s.

Strmo je upadel v 90-ih in v 2000.

But according to a committee of academics

A po mnenju komiteja akademikov,

convened by the National Academy of Sciences last year,

ki ga je sklicala Nacionalna Akademija Znanosti lansko leto,

the relationship between our historically high incarceration rates

je razmerje med našo zgodovinsko visoko stopnjo prestajanja zaporne kazni

and our low crime rate is pretty shaky.

in nizko stopnjo zločina zelo majavo.

It turns out that the crime rate goes up and down

Izkazalo se je, da se stopnja zločina viša in niža,

irrespective of how many young people we send to prison.

ne glede na to, koliko mladih ljudi pošljemo v zapor.

We tend to think about justice in a pretty narrow way:

O pravici radi mislimo zelo ozkogledo:

good and bad, innocent and guilty.

dobro in slabo, nedolžen, kriv.

Injustice is about being wrongfully convicted.

Nepravica pomeni po krivem obtožen.

So if you're convicted of something you did do,

Če si torej obtožen za nekaj, kar si storil,

you should be punished for it.

moraš biti za to tudi kaznovan.

There are innocent and guilty people,

Obstajajo nedolžni in krivi ljudje,

there are victims and there are perpetrators.

imamo žrtve in imamo storilce.

Maybe we could think a little bit more broadly than that.

Mogoče bi lahko razmišljali malo bolj na široko.

Right now, we're asking kids who live in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods,

V tem trenutku pričakujemo od otrok, ki živijo v najbolj zapostavljenih soseskah,

who have the least amount of family resources,

ki imajo najmanj družinskih sredstev,

who are attending the country's worst schools,

ki obiskujejo najslabše šole v okrožju,

who are facing the toughest time in the labor market,

ki se soočajo s težkimi časi na trgu dela,

who are living in neighborhoods where violence is an everyday problem,

ki živijo v soseskah, kjer je nasilje vsakodnevni problem,

we're asking these kids to walk the thinnest possible line --

prosimo jih, da hodijo po zelo tanki črti --

to basically never do anything wrong.

da nikoli ne naredijo ničesar narobe.

Why are we not providing support to young kids facing these challenges?

Zakaj jim ne ponujamo podpore, ko se soočajo s takimi izzivi?

Why are we offering only handcuffs, jail time and this fugitive existence?

Ponujamo samo lisice, zaporne kazni in življenje na begu.

Can we imagine something better?

Si ne moremo predstavljati česa boljšega?

Can we imagine a criminal justice system that prioritizes recovery,

Si lahko predstavljamo sodni sistem, ki v ospredje postavlja okrevanje,

prevention, civic inclusion,

preventivo in vključitev v družbo

rather than punishment?

namesto kazni?

(Applause)

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A criminal justice system that acknowledges

Sodni sistem, ki priznava

the legacy of exclusion that poor people of color in the U.S. have faced

tradicijo izključitve, ki so jo revni ne-belci v ZDA občutili

and that does not promote and perpetuate those exclusions.

in ne promovira in ohranja teh izključitev.

(Applause)

(aplavz)

And finally, a criminal justice system that believes in black young people,

In za konec, sodni sistem, ki verjame v mlade temnopolte ljudi,

rather than treating black young people as the enemy to be rounded up.

namesto, da jih tretira kot sovražnika, ki ga je treba obkoliti.

(Applause)

(aplavz)

The good news is that we already are.

Dobra novica je, da smo že.

A few years ago, Michelle Alexander wrote "The New Jim Crow,"

Pred nekaj leti, je Michelle Alexander napisala "Novi Jim Crow",

which got Americans to see incarceration as a civil rights issue

ki je američanom odprla oči, da je zaporna kazen velik problem

of historic proportions in a way they had not seen it before.

državljanskih pravic, na način kot še nikoli prej.

President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have come out very strongly

Predsednik Obama in državni tožilec Eric Holder sta se močno borila

on sentencing reform,

za reformo zapornih kazni

on the need to address racial disparity in incarceration.

in potrebo po naslavljanju rasnega razkoraka pri priprtjih.

We're seeing states throw out Stop and Frisk

Vidimo lahko, da države poudarjajo "Stop" in "Pregled",

as the civil rights violation that it is.

kot kršitev človeških pravic.

We're seeing cities and states decriminalize possession of marijuana.

Vidimo tudi, kako mesta in države dekriminalizirajo uporabo marihuane.

New York, New Jersey and California

New York, New Jersey in Kalifornija

have been dropping their prison populations, closing prisons,

so začele zmanjševati populacijo v zaporih, zapore zapirati,

while also seeing a big drop in crime.

a hkrati občutijo znatno zmanjšanje zločina.

Texas has gotten into the game now,

Tudi Teksas se je pridružil

also closing prisons, investing in education.

in zapira zapore, vlaga v izobrazbo.

This curious coalition is building from the right and the left,

To zanimivo združenje gradi, od desnih in levih,

made up of former prisoners and fiscal conservatives,

ki sestoji iz bivših zapornikov in fiskalnih konzervativcev

of civil rights activists and libertarians,

do aktivistov za človeške pravice in liberalcev,

of young people taking to the streets to protest police violence

ter mladih, ki na ulicah protestirajo proti nasilju policije

against unarmed black teenagers,

nad neoboroženimi črnimi najstniki

and older, wealthier people --

in starejših, bogatejših ljudi --

some of you are here in the audience --

nekateri ste danes v občinstvu,

pumping big money into decarceration initiatives

prinašate denar v ideje zmanjševanja zaporne kazni.

In a deeply divided Congress,

V močno razdeljenem Kongresu,

the work of reforming our criminal justice system

je delo reformiranja našega sodnega sistema

is just about the only thing that the right and the left

edina tema, o kateri se tako levi kot desni

are coming together on.

strinjajo.

I did not think I would see this political moment in my lifetime.

Nisem verjela, da bom ta politični trenutek doživela.

I think many of the people who have been working tirelessly

Verjamem, da ogromno ljudi, ki neutrudno delajo,

to write about the causes and consequences

da bi zapisali vzroke in posledice

of our historically high incarceration rates

naše zgodovinsko visoke stopnje zaporne kazni

did not think we would see this moment in our lifetime.

niso verjeli, da bodo dočakali ta trenutek.

The question for us now is, how much can we make of it?

A vprašati se moramo, kaj se iz tega lahko naučimo?

How much can we change?

Koliko lahko spremenimo?

I want to end with a call to young people,

Rada bi zaključila s pozivom mladim ljudem,

the young people attending college

mladim, ki obiskujejo faks

and the young people struggling to stay out of prison

in tistim, ki se borijo, da ne pristanejo v zaporu,

or to make it through prison and return home.

ali, da bi se prebili skozi zapor in se vrnili domov.

It may seem like these paths to adulthood are worlds apart,

Morda se zdi, da sta ti 2 poti na poti v odraslost svetove narazen,

but the young people participating in these two institutions

a mladi, ki so del teh dveh institucij

conveying us to adulthood,

in odraščajo,

they have one thing in common:

imajo eno skupno stvar:

Both can be leaders in the work of reforming our criminal justice system.

oboji so lahko voditelji v delu za reformo našega sodnega sistema.

Young people have always been leaders in the fight for equal rights,

Mladi so bili vedno vodje v boju za enakopravnost,

the fight for more people to be granted dignity

dostojanstvo

and a fighting chance at freedom.

in možnost borbe za svobodo.

The mission for the generation of young people

Naloga generacije mladih,

coming of age in this, a sea-change moment, potentially,

ki postanejo dovolj stari v tem tako pomembnem trenutku je,

is to end mass incarceration and build a new criminal justice system,

da zaključijo to množično pošiljanje v zapor in zgradijo nov sodni sistem,

emphasis on the word justice.

s poudarkom na besedi pravica.

Thanks.

Hvala.

(Applause)

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