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"Is it truly fair to judge a man based on our 21st century understanding of morality?"
“根據我們21世紀對道德的理解來評判一個人，真的公平嗎？”
Some believe that if America is to successfully dismantle systemic racism, it needs to confront the reality of the nation's dark history—and accept that even the nation's Founding Fathers need to be taken off their pedestals.
一些人認為，如果美國要成功地消除系統性的種族歧視，就需要面對美國黑暗歷史的現實——接受甚至連美國的開國元勛都要被從基座上取下來。
Student Roman Leaphart started a petition last week, urging the University of Missouri to remove a statue of Jefferson from the campus quad due to his ties to slavery. It has since collected more than 3,000 signatures.
學生羅曼·利普哈特在上周發起了一項請愿活動，敦促密蘇里大學將杰斐遜的雕像從校園廣場移走，因為杰斐遜與奴隸制有聯系。此后，此項請愿活動已收集了3000多個簽名。
"Mizzou has no room for a racist slave owner on our campus... where thousands of black students pass by everyday, forced to deal with imagery of the past in the future where we should be promoting equality, diversity and inclusion," the petition says. "A memorial of a racist has no place on our campus."
“密蘇里大學校園中沒有種族主義奴隸主的立足之地……每天有成千上萬的黑人學生從這里經過，他們被迫在未來還要處理過去的影像，在未來我們應該促進平等、多樣性和包容。”請愿書中寫道。“種族主義者的紀念碑在我們校園里沒有立足之地的。”
Leaphart told KOMU that a similar petition had been started in 2015, but didn't gain much traction. "I think now is the right time to bring this back up because this is one of the first, easiest steps," he told the station.
利普哈特告訴KOMU，在2015年就開始了一項類似的請愿活動，但并沒有引起太多的關注。他告訴電視臺，“我認為現在就是重新開始的時候，因為這是第一步，也是最簡單的一步，”
Since his petition started gaining traction, a counter-petition has been launched, apparently by an anonymous student, to save the Jefferson statue. "Is it truly fair to judge a man based on our 21st century understanding of morality, when the man we are judging lived in a time where slavery was the norm?" it asks.
自從他的請愿獲得關注，一個匿名的學生發起了一項明顯相反的請愿活動，以挽救杰斐遜雕像。“基于我們21世紀對道德的理解來評判一個人，而這個被評判人生活在奴隸制是常態的時代，這真的公平嗎？”請愿書中問到。
A petition to remove a Jefferson statue outside the student center at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York was started by Jaloni Owens two years ago, but has been gathering steam in recent days.
兩年前，賈洛尼·歐文斯發起了一項請愿書，要求將位于紐約亨普斯特德的霍夫斯特拉大學學生中心外的杰斐遜雕像移除，但最近幾天，請愿書的聲勢越來越大。
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