The trauma of systematic racism is killing Black women. A first step toward change...

翻译人员: Lipeng Chen 校对人员: Zaida Zhang

Vanessa Garrison: I am Vanessa,

Vanessa Garrison：我叫Vanessa，

daughter of Annette,

Annette，

daughter of Olympia,

Olympia，

daughter of Melvina,

Melvina，

daughter of Katie, born 1878,

和Katie的女儿，生于1878年，

Parish County, Louisiana.

来自路易斯安那州巴利斯郡。

T. Morgan Dixon: And my name is Morgan,

T. Morgan Dixon：我叫Morgan，

daughter of Carol, daughter of Letha, daughter of Willie,

Carol，Letha，Willie和Sarah的女儿，

daughter of Sarah, born 1849 in Bardstown, Kentucky.

生于1849，来自肯塔基州巴兹镇。

VG: And in the tradition of our families,

VG：在我们家庭的传统中，

the great oral tradition of almost every Black church we know

我们所知道的几乎每个 黑人教堂都有一个伟大的口口相传的传统

honoring the culture from which we draw so much power,

赞颂黑人文化， 我们从中汲取了巨大力量，

we're gonna start the way our mommas and grandmas would want us to start.

我们将以我们母亲和祖母 希望我们开始的方式开始。

TMD: In prayer. Let the words of my mouth,

TMD：以祈祷的方式。 愿我口中的言语，

the meditation of our hearts, be acceptable in thy sight,

心中的默念， 都能被您接受，

oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer.

哦主啊，我的力量和救赎。

VG: We call the names and rituals of our ancestors into this room today

VG：今日，我们将先人的名字和仪式 带入这间屋子，

because from them we received a powerful blueprint for survival,

因为从她们那里， 我们了解到了为了生存的伟大蓝图，

随着非洲女性漂洋过海而来的，

strategies and tactics for healing carried across oceans by African women,

passed down to generations of Black women in America

在美国由数代黑人女性 传承下来的治愈诀窍，

who used those skills to navigate institutions of slavery

她们用这些才改变了奴隶制的走向，

and state-sponsored discrimination

改变了由国家默许的歧视，

in order that we might stand on this stage.

因此我们才得以站在这个舞台上。

We walk in the footsteps of those women,

我们追随这些女性，

our foremothers, legends

我们的祖先， 像Ella Baker，Septima Clark，

like Ella Baker, Septima Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer,

Fannie Lou Hamer 这样传奇人物的脚步，

from whom we learned the power of organizing

以她独力在密西西比的吉姆克劳

after she would had single-handedly registered

组织了60000人的投票之后，

60,000 voters in Jim Crow Mississippi.

我们见识了组织的力量。

TMD: 60,000 is a lot of people, so if you can imagine

TMD：60000人很多， 所以如果你可以想象

me and Vanessa inspiring 60,000 women to walk with us last year,

我和Vanessa去年鼓励了 60000名女性和我们同行，

we were fired up.

我们焦头烂额。

But today, 100,000 Black women and girls stand on this stage with us.

但是今天，十万名黑人女性和女孩 和我们一起站在这个舞台上。

We are committed to healing ourselves,

我们致力于治愈我们自己，

to lacing up our sneakers, to walking out of our front door

致力于系上我们的鞋带， 走出前门，

every single day for total healing and transformation in our communities,

在我们的群体中每天为 全面的治愈和转型奔走，

because we understand

因为我们理解，

that we are in the footsteps of a civil rights legacy

我们以前从未像今天如此

享受着民权运动的遗产，

like no other time before,

and that we are facing a health crisis like never ever before.

也面临着从未遇到的健康危机。

And so we've had a lot of moments, great moments,

我们经历了许多时刻，伟大的时刻，

including the time we had on our pajamas, we were working on our computer

包括我们穿着睡衣，在电脑上工作时，

and Michelle Obama emailed us and invited us to the White House,

收到Michelle Obama 邀请我们去白宫的邮件，

and we thought it was spam.

而我们以为那是垃圾邮件。

But this moment here is an opportunity.

但这个时刻是一个机遇。

It is an opportunity that we don't take for granted,

这是一个我们不认为理所应当的机遇，

and so we thought long and hard about how we would use it.

所以我们思考了很久，应该如何利用它。

Would we talk to the women we hope to inspire,

我们是和我们想要激励的女性交谈，

a million in the next year,

即下一年的一百万名女性，

or would we talk to you?

还是和你们交谈？

We decided to talk to you,

我们决定和你们交谈，

and to talk to you about a question that we get all the time,

和你们交流一个我们 一直被问到的一个问题，

so that the millions of women who hopefully will watch this

所以数以万计可能看到这个演讲的女性，

will never have to answer it again.

永远不会再要回答它了。

It is: Why are Black women dying

那就是：为什么黑人女性

faster and at higher rates

相比美国的其他人群，

than any other group of people in America

以更快和更高的速度，

from preventable, obesity-related diseases?

死于可预防的，肥胖相关的疾病？

The question hurts me.

这个问题折磨着我。

I'm shaking a little bit.

我有点发抖。

It feels value-laden.

这个问题很有价值。

It hurts my body because the weight represents so much.

它折磨着我的身体，因为它的分量太重了。

But we're going to talk about it

但我们今天就会谈论它，

and invite you into an inside conversation today

而且我们今天邀请你们进行一场深度的交流，

because it is necessary, and because we need you.

因为这很有必要， 因为我们需要你们。

VG: Each night, before the first day of school,

VG：在每个开学前的晚上，

my grandmother would sit me next to the stove

我祖母会在火炉旁，坐在我的身边，

and with expert precision use a hot comb to press my hair.

以熟练的手法用烫热的梳子梳我的头发。

My grandmother was legendary, big, loud.

我祖母的人生充满传奇， 她块头很大，也很大声。

She filled up a room with laughter and oftentimes curse words.

她的笑声充满了房间， 有时那会是脏话。

She cooked a mean peach cobbler,

她做桃子酥皮馅饼，

had 11 children, a house full of grandchildren,

有11个孩子，和满屋的孙子孙女，

and like every Black woman I know,

就像我认识的每个黑人女性一样，

like most all women I know,

就像我认识的每个女性一样，

she had prioritized the care of others over caring for herself.

她把照顾别人放在照顾自己之前。

We measured her strength by her capacity to endure pain and suffering.

我们以她承受痛苦的 能力来衡量她的力量。

We celebrated her for it, and our choice would prove to be deadly.

我们因此为她而庆祝， 而我们的决定被证明是致命的。

One night after pressing my hair before the first day of eighth grade,

在我八年级开学前的晚上， 在梳完我的头发之后，

my grandmother went to bed and never woke up,

我的祖母睡觉了，再也没有醒来，

dead at 66 years old from a heart attack.

66岁时死于心脏病。

By the time I would graduate college,

到我大学毕业时，

I would lose two more beloved family members to chronic disease:

我有两个挚爱的家庭成员死于慢性疾病：

my aunt Diane, dead at 55, my aunt Tricia, dead at 63.

我的阿姨Diane，死于55岁。 我的阿姨Tricia，死于63岁。

After living with these losses, the hole that they left,

在经历这些损失， 经历这些她们留下的伤口后，

I decided to calculate the life expectancy of the women in my family.

我决定计算我们家庭中 女性的预期寿命。

Staring back at me, the number 65.

我得到的数字，65。

I knew I could not sit by

我知道我不能袖手旁观，

and watch another woman I loved die an early death.

眼看另一个我深爱的女性早早死去。

TMD: So we don't usually put our business in the streets.

TMD：我们不常常把 我们的问题公之于众。

Let's just put that out there.

就把它束之高阁好了。

But I have to tell you the statistics.

但我要告诉你们统计数字。

Black women are dying at alarming rates,

黑人女性正以令人吃惊的速度死亡，

and I used to be a classroom teacher,

我曾是一名教师，

那时我在南亚特兰大高级中学，

and I was at South Atlanta High School,

and I remember standing in front of my classroom,

我记得站在教室前面，

and I remember a statistic that half of Black girls will get diabetes

我记得一个统计数字说， 有一半的黑人女孩会的糖尿病，

除非饮食和活动的程度有所改变。

unless diet and levels of activity change.

Half of the girls in my classroom. So I couldn't teach anymore.

我教室里面一般的女孩啊。 所以我不再教书了。

So I started taking girls hiking, which is why we're called GirlTrek,

我开始教女孩们爬山， 这也是我们被称作GirlTrek的原因，

but Vanessa was like,

但是Vanessa认为，

that is not going to move the dial on the health crisis; it's cute.

这不会解决健康危机；这作用太小了。

She was like, it's a cute hiking club.

在她看来，这就是个小小的爬山社团。

So what we thought

所以我们想，

is if we could rally a million of their mothers ...

如果我们可以号召数百万的母亲——

82 percent of Black women are over a healthy weight right now.

百分之八十二的黑人女性现在是超重的。

53 percent of us are obese.

百分之五十三是肥胖的。

But the number that I cannot,

但是我现在

that I cannot get out of my head

不能从我脑子里忘记的数字，

is that every single day in America,

是在美国每一天，

137 Black women

137名黑人女性

die from a preventable disease,

会死于可预防的疾病，

heart disease.

心脏疾病。

That's every 11 minutes.

每11分钟。

137 is more than gun violence,

137比死于枪支暴力，

cigarette smoking and HIV combined,

抽烟和艾滋病合起来的人还多，

every day.

每一天。

It is roughly the amount of people

这差不多是从新泽西到温哥华

that were on my plane from New Jersey to Vancouver.

一架飞机上的人数。

Can you imagine that?

你能想象吗？

A plane filled with Black women crashing to the ground every day,

每天，一架坐满了黑人女性的飞机坠落，

and no one is talking about it.

而没有人谈论这件事情。

VG: So the question that you're all asking yourselves right now is why?

VG：所以现在你们在问自己的问题是，为什么？

Why are Black women dying? We asked ourselves that same question.

为什么黑人女性在死亡？ 我们问了自己同样的问题。

Why is what's out there not working for them?

为什么我们现有的东西对她们不起作用？

Private weight loss companies, government interventions,

私人减肥机构， 政府干预，

public health campaigns.

公众健康运动。

I'm going to tell you why:

我告诉你为什么：

because they focus on weight loss

因为他们只注重减肥，

or looking good in skinny jeans

或是能够穿瘦长的牛仔裤而显得好看，

without acknowledging the trauma

而没有承认在黑人女性身上，

that Black women hold in our bellies and bones,

写入我们每个DNA的

that has been embedded in our very DNA.

刻入我们肉体和骨髓的伤痛。

在治疗我祖母的心脏问题上，

The best advice from hospitals and doctors,

the best medications from pharmaceutical companies

来自医院和医生最好的建议、

to treat the congestive heart failure of my grandmother didn't work

来自医药公司最好的药物没能起作用，

because they didn't acknowledge the systemic racism

是因为他们没有承认我祖母一出生

that she had dealt with since birth.

就需要面对的系统性歧视。

(Applause)

（掌声）

A divestment in schools, discriminatory housing practices,

学校中的缺失， 歧视性的住房措施，

predatory lending, a crack cocaine epidemic,

侵略性的借贷， 可卡因的流行

mass incarceration putting more Black bodies behind bars

大量的监禁夺去了 比在奴隶制顶峰时，

than were owned at the height of slavery.

更多黑人的生命。

But GirlTrek does.

但我们有GirlTrek。

For Black women whose bodies are buckling under the weight

对于那些体重远超过

of systems never designed to support them,

身体可承受范围的黑人女性，

GirlTrek is a lifeline.

GirlTrek就是生命线。

August 16, 2015, Danita Kimball, a member of GirlTrek in Detroit,

2015年8月16日，Danita Kimball， 底特律GirlTrek的一名成员，

received the news that too many Black mothers have received.

同其他许多黑人母亲 一样看到了这条新闻。

Her son Norman, 23 years old, a father of two,

她那23岁，养育着 两个孩子的儿子Norman，

was gunned down while on an afternoon drive.

在下午开车时被枪杀了。

Imagine the grief

试想一下

that overcomes your body in that moment,

在那一刻充满你全身的悲痛，

the immobilizing fear.

那不能自拔的恐惧。

Now, know this, that just days after laying her son to rest,

现在，了解了这个， 在她处理完儿子后事仅仅几天后，

Danita Kimball posted online,

Danita Kimball在网上发布了这条消息。

"I don't know what to do or how to move forward,

“我不知道我该做什么， 或该如何翻篇前进，

but my sisters keep telling me I need to walk, so I will."

但我的姐妹们一直告诉我 我要去行走，所以我会这么做。”

几天之后，

And then just days after that,

"I got my steps in today for my baby Norm.

“今天我为了我的儿子 Norm迈开了脚步，

It felt good to be out there, to walk."

在外面走路感觉不错。”

TMD: Walking through pain is what we have always done.

TMD：通过行走缓解痛苦 是我们一直做的事情。

My mom, she's in the middle right there,

我的母亲，她就在那中间，

my mom desegregated her high school in 1955.

1955年她念中学时， 种族隔离制度被取消了。

Her mom walked down the steps of an abandoned school bus

她的母亲从废弃的校车走出来，

where she raised 11 kids as a sharecropper.

身为佃农，她在那校车里养育了11个孩子。

And her mom stepped onto Indian territory

她的母亲踏上了印第安人的领地，

fleeing the terrors of the Jim Crow South.

逃离了南方吉姆克劳的恐怖。

And her mom walked her man to the door

她的母亲还把她的丈夫送到门口，

as he went off to fight in the Kentucky Colored Regiment,

他要代表肯塔基有色政权，

the Civil War.

参与内战。

They were born slaves but they wouldn't die slaves.

他们生下来是奴隶， 但是他们死时不再是奴隶。

Change-making, it's in my blood.

改变了一切，在我的血液之中。

It's what I do,

这是我所做的，

而这健康危机和我们所行走的 道路相比不值得一提。

and this health crisis ain't nothing compared to the road we have traveled.

(Applause)

（掌声）

So it's like James Cleveland.

就像James Cleveland一样，

I don't feel no ways tired, so we got to work.

我没有理由感到疲累， 我要去工作。

We started looking at models of change.

我们开始关注改变的模式。

我们的眼光遍及全球。

We looked all over the world.

We needed something

我们需要的

not only that was a part of our cultural inheritance like walking,

不仅仅是我们的文化 传承下来的东西，比如行走，

but something that was scalable, something that was high-impact,

我们还需要可以规模化的， 拥有巨大影响力的，

something that we could replicate across this country.

可以在全国范围内推广的东西。

So we studied models like Wangari Maathai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize

所以我们研究了诺贝尔和平奖 获得者Wangari Maathai的模式，

for inspiring women to plant 50 million trees in Kenya.

她在肯尼亚激励女性 种植了五千万棵树。

She brought Kenya back from the brink of environmental devastation.

她将肯尼亚从环境毁灭的 边缘救了回来。

We studied these systems of change, and we looked at walking scientifically.

我们研究了这些改变的系统， 并且从科学的角度看待了走路。

And what we learned is that walking just 30 minutes a day

我们发现， 每天只要走路30分钟，

can single-handedly decrease 50 percent of your risk of diabetes,

就可以使患糖尿病，心脏病，

heart disease, stroke, even Alzheimer's and dementia.

中风，甚至阿兹罕默症和 痴呆的风险降低50%。

We know that walking is the single most powerful thing

我们知道行走是一个女性 可以为她的健康

that a woman can do for her health,

所做的最有用的事情，

so we knew we were on to something,

所以我们知道我们确实有了些头绪，

because from Harriet Tubman to the women in Montgomery,

因为从Harriet Tubman到 蒙哥马利县的女性，

when Black women walk, things change.

当黑人女性行走时， 事情就会发生改变。

(Applause)

（掌声）

VG: So how did we take this simple idea of walking

VG：所以我们如何利用 走路这一简单的想法，

and start a revolution that would catch a fire

开展一项革命，可以传递到

in neighborhoods across America?

美国的每个角落呢？

We used the best practices of the Civil Rights Movement.

我们利用了人权运动的最佳方式。

We huddled up in church basements.

我们去到教堂的地下室中。

We did grapevine information sharing through beauty salons.

我们通过美发沙龙分享有用的信息。

We empowered and trained mothers to stand on the front lines.

我们鼓励并教育母亲站在前线。

We took our message directly to the streets,

我们直接传递了我们的消息，

and women responded.

而女性也回应了。

Women like LaKeisha in Chattanooga,

像查塔努加市的LaKeisha，

Chrysantha in Detroit,

底特律的Chrysantha，

Onika in New Orleans,

新奥尔良的Onika，

women with difficult names and difficult stories

名字难读，经历痛苦的女性

join GirlTrek every day and commit to walking as a practice of self-care.

时时刻刻都在加入GirlTrek， 并将行走看成是自我保健的方式。

Once walking, those women get to organizing,

一旦开始行走， 这些女性便组织起来了，

first their families, then their communities,

首先是她们的家庭， 其次是她们的社区，

to walk and talk and solve problems together.

一起行走，交流， 解决问题。

They walk and notice the abandoned building.

她们行走， 看到那些被遗弃的建筑。

They walk and notice the lack of sidewalks,

她们行走， 看到人行道的缺失，

the lack of green space,

绿色空间的缺失，

and they say, "No more."

然后说道，“再也不能这样。”

Women like Susie Paige in Philadelphia,

像费城Susie Paige这样的女性，

who after walking daily past an abandoned building in her neighborhood,

每天会经过她家附近 一栋被遗弃的建筑，

decided, "I'm not waiting.

她决定，“我不能等了。

Let me rally my team. Let me grab some supplies.

让我召集我的队伍。 让我拿起一些东西。

Let me do what no one else has done for me and my community."

让我做其他人不能为 我和我的社区做的事情。”

TMD: We know one woman can make a difference,

TMD：我们知道一个 女性可以做出改变，

because one woman has already changed the world,

因为一个女性已经改变了世界，

and her name is Harriet Tubman.

她的名字是Harriet Tubman。

And trust me, I love Harriet Tubman.

相信我，我爱Harriet Tubman。

I'm obsessed with her, and I used to be a history teacher.

我对她着迷， 我曾是个历史老师。

I will not tell you the whole history.

我不会和你们什么都说。

I will tell you four things.

我只和你们说四件事情。

So I used to have an old Saab --

我曾经有一辆旧的赛博——

the kind of canvas top that drips on your head when it rains --

它有着帆布的车顶， 当下雨时会滴水——

and I drove all the way down to the eastern shore of Maryland,

我开车到马里兰的东岸，

and when I stepped on the dirt

当我踏上Harriet Tubman

that Harriet Tubman made her first escape,

第一次逃脱的土地时，

I knew she was a woman just like we are

我知道她就是一个和我们一样的女性，

and that we could do what she had done,

而我们可以做她做过的事情，

and we learned four things from Harriet Tubman.

我们从Harriet Tubman那里学到了四件事。

The first one: do not wait.

第一：不要等待。

Walk right now in the direction of your healthiest, most fulfilled life,

朝着你最健康，最充实的生活方向前进，

because self-care is a revolutionary act.

因为自我保养是革命性的。

第二：

Number two:

when you learn the way forward, come back and get a sister.

当你知道怎么前进时， 回来，带上别人。

So in our case, start a team with your friends --

以我们为例， 从你的朋友开始组队——

your friends, your family, your church.

你的朋友，你的家庭，你的教堂。

Number three:

第三：

rally your allies.

团结你的同伴。

Every single person in this room

这间屋子里的每一个人

is complicit in a Tubman-inspired takeover.

都受到Tubman的 熏陶而成为一体。

第四：

And number four:

find joy.

找到乐趣。

The most underreported fact of Harriet Tubman

对于Harriet Tubman 报道的最少的是，

is that she lived to be 93 years old,

她活了93岁，

and she didn't live just an ordinary life; uh-uh.

她没有过平凡的生活；没有。

She was standing up for the good guys. She married a younger man.

她追求优秀的男人。 她嫁给了比她年轻的男人。

She adopted a child. I'm not kidding. She lived.

她收养了一个孩子。 我不是开玩笑。她活过。

And I drove up to her house of freedom in upstate New York,

我开车前往她在 纽约北部的自由之屋，

and she had planted apple trees,

她曾种过苹果树，

and when I was there on a Sunday, they were blooming.

我在那里时是一个星期天， 苹果树开花了。

Do you call it -- do they bloom?

你这么说吗——它们开花吗？

The apples were in season,

苹果正当季，

and I was thinking, she left fruit for us,

我就在想，她为我们留下了果实，

the legacy of Harriet Tubman, every single year.

Harriet Tubman的遗产， 每年如此。

And we know that we are Harriet,

我们意识到我们就是Harriet，

and we know that there is a Harriet in every community in America.

我们意识到美国每个 社区中就有一个Harriet。

VG: We also know that there's a Harriet in every community across the globe,

VG：我们还意识到全球范围内 每个社区中也有一个Harriet，

and that they could learn from our Tubman Doctrine,

他们可以从我们的 Tubman法则中汲取知识，

as we call it, the four steps.

我们称之为，四步法。

Imagine the possibilities

试想一下

beyond the neighborhoods of Oakland and Newark,

从奥克兰和纽瓦克的周边，

to the women working rice fields in Vietnam,

到在越南稻田里耕作的女性，

tea fields in Sri Lanka,

在斯里兰卡茶园里工作的女性，

the women on the mountainsides in Guatemala,

再到危地马拉山脉上的女性，

the indigenous reservations throughout the vast plains of the Dakotas.

达科塔广袤平原上原住民保护区中的女性， 她们带来的可能性。

We believe that women walking

我们认为女性开始行走，

and talking together to solve their problems

共同交流解决问题，

is a global solution.

是一种通用的方案。

TMD: And I'll leave you with this,

TMD：我就说道这里，

because we also believe it can become the center of social justice again.

因为我们还认为这会再次 成为社会正义的中心。

Vanessa and I were in Fort Lauderdale.

Vanessa和我在劳德尔堡。

We had an organizer training,

我们办过组织者的培训，

and I was leaving and I got on the airplane,

我正要离开， 要踏上飞机，

and I saw someone I knew, so I waved,

我见到了我认识的人， 所以我挥了挥手，

and as I'm waiting in that long line that you guys know,

当我在那长队里面等待的时候， 你们知道的，

waiting for people to put their stuff away,

等人们放好他们的东西，

I looked back and I realized I didn't know the woman but I recognized her.

我回头看了看，意识到 我不认识那个女人，但我认得出她。

And so I blew her a kiss because it was Sybrina Fulton,

于是我给了她一个飞吻， 因为那是Sybrina Fulton，

Trayvon Martin's mom,

Trayvon Martin的母亲，

and she whispered "thank you" back to me.

她轻声对我说了“谢谢”。

And I can't help but wonder what would happen

我不禁想到， 如果在那天有很多女性

if there were groups of women walking on Trayvon's block that day,

正好走在Trayvon的街区， 会发生什么，

or what would happen in the South Side of Chicago every day

或是如果有很多女性， 母亲，婶婶，表亲每天

if there were groups of women and mothers and aunts and cousins

走在芝加哥的南部，

walking,

会发生什么，

or along the polluted rivers of Flint, Michigan.

或是在密西根州弗林特市 走在那污染的河水旁。

I believe that walking can transform our communities,

我认为行走可以改变我们的社区，

because it's already starting to.

因为这已经开始发生了。

VG: We believe that the personal is political.

VG：我们相信个人的也是政治的。

Our walking is for healing, for joy, for fresh air,

我们的步行是为了治愈， 为了乐趣，为了清洁空气，

quiet time, to connect and disconnect, to worship.

为了安静时间，为了联系和舍离， 为了礼拜祈祷。

But it's also walking so we can be healthy enough

但同时，通过步行， 我们可以变得健康，

to stand on the front lines for change in our communities,

站在我们社区改变的前线之上，

and it is our call to action to every Black woman listening,

我们的使命就是为了让每个 黑人女性倾听而采取行动，

every Black woman in earshot of our voice,

每个黑人女性能听到我们的声音，

every Black woman who you know.

你认识的每个黑人女性。

Think about it: the woman working front desk reception at your job,

试想一下：你工作前台的接待女性，

the woman who delivers your mail, your neighbor --

给你送邮件的女性， 你的邻居——

our call to action to them, to join us on the front lines

我们的使命是让她们加入 我们，站在改变你们社区的

for change in your community.

第一线。

TMD: And I'll bring us back to this moment

TMD：让我们回到此刻，

and why it's so important for my dear, dear friend Vanessa and I.

为什么这对我和我亲爱的 朋友Vanessa如此重要？

It's because it's not always easy for us,

因为这对我们来说不总是简单的，

and in fact, we have both seen really, really dark days,

事实上，我们都经历过十分黑暗的日子，

from the hate speech to the summer of police brutality and violence

从仇恨言论到我们去年见证的

that we saw last year,

充满警察暴力的夏天，

to even losing one of our walkers,

甚至到失去我们行者中的一个，

Sandy Bland, who died in police custody.

Sandy Bland，她死于警方监禁。

But the most courageous thing we do every day is we practice faith

但我们每天所做的最大胆的事情， 就是我们坚定信念，

that goes beyond the facts,

凌驾于事实之上，

and we put feet to our prayers every single day,

我们每天都会祈祷，

and when we get overwhelmed,

当我们感到手足无措时，

we think of the words of people like Sonia Sanchez, a poet laureate,

我们想到桂冠诗人Sonia Sanchez的话，

who says, "Morgan, where is your fire?

她说，“Morgan，你那团火焰在哪里？

Where is the fire that burned holes through slave ships

那在奴隶船上烧了一个孔， 所以我们才可以呼吸的

to make us breathe?

火焰在哪里？

那把生米做成熟饭，

Where is the fire that turned guts into chitlins,

that took rhythms and make jazz,

富有节奏，孕育爵士，

that took sit-ins and marches and made us jump boundaries and barriers?

带领我们静坐和游行， 让我们越过边界和障碍的火焰在哪里？

You've got to find it and pass it on."

你必须找到它并传承下去。”

So this is us finding our fire and passing it on to you.

所以我们站在这里， 找到了火焰，并传给你们。

So please, stand with us,

所以请你们和我们并肩，

walk with us as we rally a million women

和我们一起行走， 就如同我们召集百万女性

to reclaim the streets of the 50 highest need communities

去收复这个国家中50个最需要的

in this country.

社区街头。

We thank you so much for this opportunity.

非常感谢给我们这个机会。

(Applause)

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