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种族歧视
Racism
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
音乐本身是色盲的,但媒体和广播电台根据他们对艺术家的看法将其隔离。
I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.
我不知道如何定义一个平权雇佣。我最终不知道种族在我的招聘中扮演了什么角色。
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
当你想到当种族灭绝发生时发生的事情,本质上并不邪恶的人。
The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.
具有讽刺意味的是,电影中性别歧视的男性越多,女性就越容易被他们吸引。
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
我们黑人作家,因为是黑人,一生都被列在黑名单上。对我们来说,审查从肤色开始。
If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
如果人们被告知他们会做正确的事情。当他们没有被告知他们成为偏见的人质时。
Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.
偏见是一种病。当他们为你而来,或拒绝你的价值时,我必为他们的石头做好准备。我属于你。
As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.
作为一个黑人,我希望我能接触到世界上越来越多不同种族、不同肤色的人。
Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.
我和其他非白人演员合作过的很多剧本都不怎么样。很多非白人演员并不都那么棒。
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.
当我踢球的时候,我受到了种族歧视,但我只是少数黑人球员之一,我们没有得到官方的支持。
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
种族隔离在白人的压迫下是错误的,我相信在黑人的要求下仍然是错误的。
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
监狱就像我们这个时代的集中营。很多人进去后就再也出不来了,主要是黑人和拉丁美洲人。
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I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
我想成为白人的兄弟,而不是他的姐夫。
There is no such thing as a black middle class.
没有所谓的黑人中产阶级。
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
我多么希望我们生活在一个没有法律保护我们免受歧视的时代。
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
我第一次在亚特兰大坐车时,看到售票员——所有的售票员都是白人——请一位黑人妇女站起来,坐到靠后的座位上,以便给一位白人男子让座。我还看到白人被要求离开汽车的黑人区。
In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.
最终,反黑人、反女性以及所有形式的歧视都等同于同一件事——反人道主义。
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
对任何青年来说,最大的伤害莫过于让他感到,因为他属于这个或那个种族,无论他自己的功绩或努力如何,他都会在生活中获得进步。