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Instead they will make assumptions about who they think you are based on their limited notion of the world.
相反，他們會基于對這個世界有限的認知假設你是什么樣的人。
And my husband and I know how frustrating that experience can be.
我丈夫和我知道這樣的經歷是多么地讓人感到沮喪。
We've both felt the sting of those daily slights throughout our entire lives
我們都被生活中存在的歧視刺痛過，
the folks who crossed the street in fear of their safety;
有人在和我們一起過馬路的時候擔心自身安全；
the clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores;
百貨公司的柜員總是提防我們；
the people at formal events who assumed we were the "help"
人們在正式場合認為我們是“來幫忙的人”，
and those who have questioned our intelligence, our honesty, even our love of this country.
還有人質疑我們的智力、誠實，甚至對于這個國家的熱愛。
And I know that these little indignities are obviously nothing compared to what folks across the country are dealing with every single day
我知道，我和我丈夫經歷的這些無禮的事，相比于那些每天都在被無休止冒犯的黑人同胞顯然是不值一提的。
those nagging worries that you're going to get stopped or pulled over for absolutely no reason;
你們可能一直擔心會被毫無理由地禁行；
the fear that your job application will be overlooked because of the way your name sounds;
你們可能害怕自己的工作申請因為名字聽起來就是黑人而直接被忽略；
the agony of sending your kids to schools that may no longer be separate, but are far from equal;
你們苦惱自己的孩子在學校時，即使不再被隔離，但也遠不能被平等對待；
the realization that no matter how far you rise in life,
你們面臨的現實是無論自己多么努力工作，
how hard you work to be a good person, a good parent, a good citizen -- for some folks, it will never be enough.
多么努力地做個好人、好家長好公民，但對一些人來說，你永遠做得不夠好。
And all of that is going to be a heavy burden to carry. It can feel isolating.
所有這一切將是沉重的負擔。它讓人感覺到被孤立。
It can make you feel like your life somehow doesn't matter
可以讓你覺得你的人生在某種程度上并不重要，
that you're like the invisible man that Tuskegee grad Ralph Ellison wrote about all those years ago.
就像是塔斯基吉校友拉爾夫·埃利森多年前寫的一樣，“你看起來如隱形人一般”。
And as we've seen over the past few years, those feelings are real.
在過去的幾年里，正如我們所見，這些感受是真實的。
They're rooted in decades of structural challenges that have made too many folks feel frustrated and invisible.
它們扎根于幾十年的結構性挑戰中，而挑戰失敗的結果令太多的人感到沮喪、無望。
And those feelings are playing out in communities like Baltimore and Ferguson and so many others across this country.
這些情緒在全美，如巴爾的摩、弗格森等城市爆發出來。
But, graduates, today, I want to be very clear that those feelings are not an excuse to just throw up our hands and give up.
但是今天，我要明確地告訴大家，那些情緒不是我們放棄的借口。
Not an excuse. They are not an excuse to lose hope.
更不是我們失去希望的理由。
To succumb to feelings of despair and anger only means that in the end, we lose.
屈服于絕望和憤怒的感情只是意味著最終我們失敗了。
