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Your generation is uniquely poised for success unlike
你們這一代人的成功機會將是最大的
Any generation of African Americans that came before it
比以往任何一代非裔美國人都大
But that doesn't mean we don't have work
但這不意味著我們沒事可做了
Because if we're honest with ourselves, we know that too few of our brothers
因為說實話 我們很多兄弟都沒有
Have the opportunities that you've had here at Morehouse
你們莫爾豪斯人所擁有的這些機會
In troubled neighborhoods all across this country
國內還存在很多問題社區
Many of them heavily African American
很多這樣的社區中都有很多非裔美國人
Too few of our citizens have role models to guide them
我們的公民 很多人都沒有楷模指引他們
Communities just a couple miles from my house in Chicago
離我在芝加哥的家只有幾英里的社區
Communities just a couple miles from here
離這里只有幾英里的社區
They're places where jobs are still too scarce and wages are still too low
這些地方工作機會仍然很少 而且薪水很低
Where schools are underfunded and violence is pervasive
學校條件很差 且暴力無處不在
Where too many of our young men spend their youth not behind a desk in a classroom
我們的很多年輕人 青春都沒有揮灑在課桌前
But hanging out on the streets
而是在街頭四處游蕩
Or brooding behind a jail cell
或是身陷囹圄 反思罪行
My job, as president, is to advocate for policies that
作為總統 我的工作是主張一些政策
Generate more opportunity for everybody
為每個人提供更多機會
Policies that strengthen the middle class
這些政策將鞏固中產階級利益
And give more people the chance to climb their way into the middle class
并讓更多人有機會步入中產階級
Policies that create more good jobs and reduce poverty
這些政策將提供更多好的就業崗位 減少貧窮
And educate more children, and give more families the security of health care
讓更多孩子接受教育 讓更多家庭具有醫療保障
And protect more of our children from the horrors of gun violence
并保護更多的孩子不受槍械暴力的威脅
That's my job
這就是我的工作
Those are matters of public policy
這些是公共政策事務
And it is important for all of us
這對我們所有人都很重要
