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So that is a fact.
這就是事實。
Now I have this thought experiment that I play with myself, when I say,imagine if I walked you into a room and it was of a major corporation, like ExxonMobil,and every single person around the boardroom were black,you would think that were weird.
我跟自己玩思想實驗，我對自己說，設想我走入一個房間，是一家大公司的會議室，如埃克森美孚，全體董事會成員都是黑人，你會覺得這很奇怪。
But if I walked you into a Fortune 500 company,and everyone around the table is a white male,when will it be that we think that's weird too?
但如果你走入一家財富500強企業，在座的每位都是男性白人，我們什么時候會認為這也是奇怪的？
And I know how we got here.
我知道歷史是如何發展到今天的。
I know how we got here.
我知道我們是如何發展到今天的。
You know, there was institutionalized,at one time legalized, discrimination in our country.
你們也知道，在我們國家，歧視曾被制度化，有段時間還被合法化了。
There's no question about it.
這是不爭的事實。
But still, as I grapple with this issue,my mother's question hangs in the air for me:
但是，當我深陷在這個問題中時，我母親的問題依然在那里，
How did they treat you?
他們對你的態度如何？
Now, I do not raise this issue to complain or in any way to elicit any kind of sympathy.
今天，我拋出這個問題，不是在抱怨，也絕不是為了博得一絲同情，
I have succeeded in my life beyond my wildest expectations,and I have been treated well by people of all races more often than I have not.
我此生取得的成就，已超出我最大膽的期望，各個種族的人對我予以善待，要多于我所受到的惡待，
I tell the uniform story because it happened.
我告訴你們制服的故事因為那確實發生了。
I cite those statistics around corporate board diversity because they are real,and I stand here today talking about this issue of racial discrimination because I believe it threatens to rob another generation of all the opportunities that all of us want for all of our children,no matter what their color or where they come from.
我列舉企業董事會的數據是因為它們是真實的，而今天我站在這里，談論種族歧視問題，是因為我相信種族問題會威脅下一代擁有公平機會的權利，公平的機會是所有人期望所有的孩子能夠擁有的，無論膚色，無論來自何方。
And I think it also threatens to hold back businesses.
而且，我認為種族問題會威脅到商業發展。
You see, researchers have coined this term color blindness to describe a learned behavior where we pretend that we don't notice race.
你們知道，研究者造出了一個新詞無視膚色用以描述一種假裝沒注意到種族差異 的習得性行為。
If you happen to be surrounded by a bunch of people who look like you, that's purely accidental.
如果你恰巧跟一群長得跟你很像的人在一起，那純是巧合。
Now, color blindness, in my view,doesn't mean that there's no racial discrimination,and there's fairness.
所謂無視膚色，在我看來，并不意味著消除了種族歧視，帶來了公平。
It doesn't mean that at all. It doesn't ensure it.
根本就不是這樣。 無視膚色并不能保證消除歧視。
In my view, color blindness is very dangerous because it means we're ignoring the problem.
在我看來，無視膚色極其危險，因為它意味著我們有意地忽視問題。
There was a corporate study that said that,instead of avoiding race,the really smart corporations actually deal with it head on.
有企業研究表明，與其避免談論種族問題，不如直面問題，迎難而上。 這才是真正有智慧的企業的做法。
They actually recognize that embracing diversity means recognizing all races,including the majority one.
這些企業意識到，包容多元化意味著承認各種種族的存在，也包括人數最多的種族。
But I'll be the first one to tell you,this subject matter can be hard,awkward, uncomfortable-but that's kind of the point.
但我會第一個告訴你，這個問題解決起來會有困難，會棘手，會讓人感覺不舒服—但這是關鍵所在。
In the spirit of debunking racial stereotypes,the one that black people don't like to swim,I'm going to tell you how much I love to swim.
為揭露種族歧視問題的頑疾，有人說黑人不喜歡游泳，我來告訴你我有多熱愛游泳。
I love to swim so much that as an adult, I swim with a coach.
我如此喜愛游泳，以至于作為成年人，還請了一位教練。
And one day my coach had me do a drill where I had to swim to one end of a 25-meter pool without taking a breath.
有一天，教練讓我做一項訓練，我不得不在25米長的泳池里從頭游到尾，不能換氣。
And every single time I failed,I had to start over.
每次失敗后，都要從頭來過。
And I failed a lot.
我屢戰屢敗。
By the end, I got it, but when I got out of the pool,I was exasperated and tired and annoyed,and I said, Why are we doing breath-holding exercises?
最后，成功了，但當我從泳池出來后，心力憔悴，但更惱火，我說，為什么要做憋氣練習？
And my coach looked me at me, and he said, Mellody,that was not a breath-holding exercise.
我的教練看著我說，麥勒迪，這不是一個憋氣練習。
That drill was to make you comfortable being uncomfortable,because that's how most of us spend our days.
這項訓練是為了讓你適應不舒服的感覺，因為這就是我們大部分人的生活。
If we can learn to deal with our discomfort,and just relax into it,we'll have a better life.
如果我們知道如何適應不舒服的感覺，以輕松的態度來應對，我們的生活會更加美好。
So I think it's time for us to be comfortable with the uncomfortable conversation about race:
因此，我認為到了適應這個讓人感覺不舒服的種族話題的時候了：
black, white, Asian, Hispanic,male, female, all of us,if we truly believe in equal rights and equal opportunity in America,I think we have to have real conversations about this issue.
黑人，白人，亞裔，西班牙裔，男性，女性，我們所有的人。如果我們真正相信在美國擁有平等的權利和機會，我認為我們不得不真正地談一談這個話題。我們經受不起無視膚色。
We cannot afford to be color blind.We have to be color brave.
我們必須勇敢地面對膚色差異。
We have to be willing, as teachers and parents and entrepreneurs and scientists,we have to be willing to have proactive conversations about race with honesty and understanding and courage,not because it's the right thing to do,but because it's the smart thing to do,because our businesses and our products and our science, our research,all of that will be better with greater diversity.
我們—作為老師、父母、企業家和科學家—必須高瞻遠矚，樂于討論種族問題，心懷誠意、理解和勇氣，不是因為這么做是正確的，而因為這是明智的舉措，因為更廣泛的多元化會讓 商業、產品和科學研究等等一切都變得更好。
