Courage is contagious | Damon Davis

翻译人员: 芷蘅 张 校对人员: Lipeng Chen

So, I'm afraid.

没错，我很害怕。

Right now,

现在，

on this stage,

在舞台上。

I feel fear.

我感到恐惧，

In my life, I ain't met many people

生活中，其实我并没有遇到过很多

that will readily admit when they are afraid.

敢于真正表达自己的恐惧的人。

And I think that's because deep down,

大概是因为

they know how easy it spreads.

他们很明白恐惧可以传染。

See, fear is like a disease.

看到了吧，恐惧就像疾病。

When it moves, it moves like wildfire.

它可以像烈火一样侵蚀移动。

But what happens when,

但是在这种情况下，

even in the face of that fear,

即使面临着恐惧，

you do what you've got to do?

你会做你该做的事情吗？

That's called courage.

这就是勇气了。

And just like fear,

也像恐惧一样，

courage is contagious.

勇气也可以传染。

See, I'm from East St. Louis, Illinois.

我来自伊利诺斯州的东圣路易斯。

That's a small city

是个小地方，

across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.

在密苏里州圣路易斯的密西西比河对岸。

I have lived in and around St. Louis my entire life.

我一生都住在圣路易斯及其附近。

When Michael Brown, Jr.,

当这个普通的少年，

an ordinary teenager,

Michael Brown, Jr，

was gunned down by police in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri --

2014年在密苏里的弗得森被警察枪杀——

another suburb, but north of St. Louis --

弗得森是圣路易斯的北边的另一个市郊——

I remember thinking,

我不禁思考，

he ain't the first,

他并不是第一个，

and he won't be the last young kid to lose his life to law enforcement.

也不会是最后一个在强制执法 面前失去生命的年轻孩子。

But see, his death was different.

但是他的死亡很不同。

When Mike was killed,

我记得Mike被杀时，

I remember the powers that be trying to use fear as a weapon.

我记得有权力的人想要把恐惧当成武器。

The police response to a community in mourning was to use force

警察对这个在哀悼的群体的回答，

to impose fear:

就是利用权力施与恐惧：

fear of militarized police,

对警察，

imprisonment,

监禁，

fines.

惩罚的恐惧。

The media even tried to make us afraid of each other

媒体通过宣传这个故事

by the way they spun the story.

想让我们都彼此害怕。

And all of these things have worked in the past.

这些事情都在以前发生过并且很管用。

But like I said, this time it was different.

但就像我说的，时代变了。

Michael Brown's death and the subsequent treatment of the community

Michael的死亡和之后对待我们群体的态度

led to a string of protests in and around Ferguson and St. Louis.

是弗得森和圣路易斯抗议的导火索。

When I got out to those protests about the fourth or fifth day,

当我第四、五天去参加这些抗议时，

it was not out of courage;

已不再是出于勇气；

it was out of guilt.

而是出于罪恶感。

See, I'm black.

我是黑人。

I don't know if y'all noticed that.

不知道你们注意到了没有。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

But I couldn't sit in St. Louis, minutes away from Ferguson,

但我不能安静的呆在距弗得森 只有几分钟车程的圣路易斯，

and not go see.

而不动身前往。

So I got off my ass to go check it out.

所以我起身前往。

When I got out there,

我到达的时候，

I found something surprising.

我看到一些让我吃惊的东西。

I found anger; there was a lot of that.

我看到了愤怒，很多愤怒。

But what I found more of was love.

但是更多的我发现了爱。

People with love for themselves.

人们对自己的爱。

Love for their community.

对群体的爱。

And it was beautiful --

很感人——

until the police showed up.

直到警察出现。

Then a new emotion was interjected into the conversation:

然后新的情绪被注入对话中：

fear.

那就是恐惧。

Now, I'm not going to lie;

我不撒谎的说；

when I saw those armored vehicles,

当我看到那些装甲的车子，

and all that gear

那些装备，

and all those guns

手枪，

and all those police

包括警察，

I was terrified --

就我个人而言——

personally.

我很害怕。

And when I looked around that crowd,

而我看看周围的人群，

I saw a lot of people that had the same thing going on.

我发现他们和我一样。

But I also saw people with something else inside of them.

但是我也看到了另一些人。

That was courage.

他们有勇气。

See, those people yelled,

他们呼喊着，

and they screamed,

大叫着，

and they were not about to back down from the police.

他们没有因为警察而退缩。

They were past that point.

他们已经经历过这个点。

And then I could feel something in me changing,

我感受到了我内心的变化，

so I yelled and I screamed,

于是我也开始呼喊，

and I noticed that everybody around me was doing the same thing.

我注意到我周围的人也在呼喊着。

And there was nothing like that feeling.

从没有过那样的感觉。

So I decided I wanted to do something more.

我决定我要做更多的事。

I went home, I thought: I'm an artist. I make shit.

回到家我想，我是个作家，我写文章。

So I started making things specific to the protest,

所以我便开始写关于抗议的很具体的事，

things that would be weapons in a spiritual war,

不仅在精神战斗中可以作为武器，

things that would give people voice

也可以让人们发声，

and things that would fortify them for the road ahead.

还可以帮助人们构筑前方的路。

I did a project where I took pictures of the hands of protesters

我拍了一张抗议者们的手的照片，

and put them up and down the boarded-up buildings

张贴到用木板封住的建筑和

and community shops.

社区的商店上。

My goal was to raise awareness and to raise the morale.

我的目标就是宣扬这种意识和士气。

And I think, for a minute at least,

我认为至少有一分钟，

it did just that.

我做到了。

Then I thought, I want to uplift the stories of these people

然后我想宣扬那些当时我觉得勇敢的人，

I was watching being courageous in the moment.

他们的故事。

And myself and my friend,

于是我和我朋友，

and filmmaker and partner Sabaah Folayan

电影制片人和伙伴Sabaah Folayan，

did just that with our documentary,

利用纪录片‘’谁的街道？‘’，

"Whose Streets?"

完成了它。

I kind of became a conduit

我感觉对于给我的所有勇气，

for all of this courage that was given to me.

我完成了传递。

And I think that's part of our job as artists.

我认为这也是我们艺术家工作的一部分。

I think we should be conveyors of courage in the work that we do.

在工作中我们都要成为勇气的传播者。

And I think that we are the wall between the normal folks

我们是在普通人和

and the people that use their power to spread fear and hate,

利用权力传播恐惧和 憎恨的人之间的一堵墙，

especially in times like these.

尤其是这种时刻。

So I'm going to ask you.

所以我要问大家。

Y'all the movers and the shakers,

所有的行动者和动摇者，

you know, the thought leaders:

思想的领导者：

What are you gonna do

拥有着可以使我们不再恐惧的

with the gifts that you've been given

天赋的你们，

to break us from the fear the binds us every day?

打算怎么做？

Because, see, I'm afraid every day.

因为看到了吧，我每天都很害怕。

I can't remember a time when I wasn't.

我完全想不到哪个时候我不害怕。

But once I figured out that fear was not put in me to cripple me,

但是想到恐惧并不是来打倒我的，

it was there to protect me,

而是保护我，

and once I figured out how to use that fear,

当我明白了怎么利用恐惧，

I found my power.

我就找到了我的力量。

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

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