作者wedgewu (长路漫漫)
看板KingofPop
标题追思会上Rev. Al Sharpton牧师演讲全文
时间Thu Jul 9 20:33:26 2009
首先感谢前几篇po文的版友贡献
我才能把它们综合起来
影片:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MAKLq865bk
演讲全文:
REV. AL SHARPTON, ACTIVIST:
All over the world today people are gathered in love vigils to celebrate the
life of a man that taught the world how to love. People may be wondering why
there is such an emotional outburst, but you would have to understand the
journey of Michael to understand what he meant to all of us.
For these that sit here as the Jackson family, a mother and father with nine
children that rose from a working class family in Gary, Indiana, they had
nothing but a dream. No one believed in those days that these kind of dreams
could come true. But they kept on believing, and Michael never let the world
turn him around from his dreams.
I first met Michael around 1970, Black Expo, Chicago, Illinois, Reverend
Jesse Jackson, who stood by this family until now. And from that day, as a
cute kid, to this moment, he never gave up dreaming.
It was that dream that changed culture all over the world. When Michael
started, it was a different world, but because Michael kept going, because he
didn't except limitations, because he refused to let people decide his
boundaries, he opened up the whole world in the music world.
He put on one glove, pulled his pants up, and broke down the color curtain,
where now our videos are shown and magazines put us on the cover! It was
Michael Jackson that brought blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos
together! It was Michael Jackson that made us sing "We are the World" and
feed the hungry long before Live Aid!
(APPLAUSE)
Because Michael Jackson kept going he created a comfort level where people
that felt they were separate became interconnected with his music. And it
was that comfort level that kids from Japan and Ghana and France and Iowa
and Pennsylvania got comfortable enough with each other to, later, it wasn't
strange to us to watch Oprah on television. It wasn't strange to watch Tiger
Woods golf.
Those young kids grew up from being teenage comfortable fans of Michael's
to being 40 years old and being comfortable to vote for a president of color
to be the president of the United States of America.
(APPLAUSE)
Michael did that! Michael made us love each other! Michael taught us to stand
with each other!
There are those that like to dig around mess, but millions around the world,
we are going to uphold his message. It's not about mess, it's about his love
message.
As you climb up steep mountains, sometimes you scar your knee. Sometimes you
break your skin. But don't focus on the scars. Focus on the journey.
Michael rose to the top. He out-sang his cynics. He out-danced his doubters.
He outperformed the pessimists.
Every time he got knocked down, he got back up. Every time you counted him
out, he came back in.
Michael never stopped! Michael never stopped! Michael never stopped!
(APPLAUSE)
I want to say to Mrs. Jackson and Joe Jackson, his sisters and brothers, we
thank you for giving us someone that taught us love, someone that taught us
hope. We want to thank you because we know it was your dream, too. We know
that your heart is broken.
I know you have some comfort from the letter from the president of the
United States and Nelson Mandela, but this was your child. This was your
brother. This was your cousin. Nothing will fill your heart's loss, but I
hope the love that people are showing will make you know he didn't live in
vain.
I want his three children to know, wasn't nothing strange about your daddy.
It was strange what your daddy had to deal with, but he dealt with it...
(APPLAUSE)
SHARPTON: ... he dealt with it anyway. He dealt with it for us. So, some
came today, Mrs. Jackson, to say goodbye to Michael. I came to say thank you.
Thank you, because you never stopped. Thank you because you never gave up.
Thank you because you never gave out. Thank you because you tore down our
divisions. Thank you because you eradicated barriers. Thank you because you
gave us hope. Thank you, Michael, thank you, Michael, thank you, Michael.
(APPLAUSE)
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前阵子曾拒绝来此版,因为只要来心情都会很低落
Thank you, Michael,我真的好想你......
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1F:推 kuei1982:那天看CNN就对这段话很感兴趣 有好心人能翻译全文吗? 07/10 00:08
2F:推 YSimpson:谢谢 07/10 16:33
3F:推 Bartele:讲的真好 看了都哽咽了 07/11 00:10