# Barack Obama 回應美國五月底警察殺了 George Floyd 的事件

英文原文來自 Obama Foundation 網站
以下由 Robin Lee 自行翻成中文

## 中文翻譯

這幾天，好多朋友跟我討論了 George Floyd 面朝地、死在明尼蘇達的警察膝蓋之下的影片。我想分享些我們談到的事情。

第一個來自一個經商的中年非裔美國人寄給我的 email 。

> 朋友，我跟你說， George Floyd 讓我很心痛。我邊看影片邊哭。我整個崩潰了。“用膝蓋壓著脖子” 的情境如同這個系統藐視黑人們、忽視求助的哭喊。大家都不管。太悲劇了。
>

另一個朋友用最近洗版，一個 12 歲的 Keedron Bryant 唱歌的[影片](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzmBWQ2p1sk)，來描述他感受到的挫折。雖然我朋友跟 Keedron 處境不一樣，但他們的憤怒是一樣的。我跟數百萬的其他人也感同身受。當疫情跟經濟危機打亂我們所有的生活，我們想要 “回到日常的生活” 是相當自然的。但我們得記住，好幾百萬的美國人因著他們的種族緣故，慘痛的、悲劇的、令人失望的生活對他們是“日常”的。那些生活經驗包括了健保醫療、警察司法單位，甚至是在街上慢跑、或者到公園賞鳥。這些經驗不該是 2020 美國的 “日常”。不可以再被當作 “日常” 了。如果我們要我們的孩子在一個國家下長大、要這個國家實踐他的理想價值，我們可以、也必須做得更好。關於 Geroge Floyd 的死亡，明尼蘇達的政府官員負起調查的責任，來確保伸張正義。但我們每個人，無論我們的種族、崗位是什麼，包括大多數每天辛苦、正確執法的人們，都需要負起責任。我們得一起來建創造 “新日常”，這個 “日常” 下，我們的心中、我們的社會各個層面，不該再有偏見和不公義的對待。

## 英文原文
https://www.obama.org/updates/this-shouldnt-be-normal/

I want to share parts of the conversations I’ve had with friends over the past couple days about the footage of George Floyd dying face down on the street under the knee of a police officer in Minnesota.⁣ ⁣ The first is an email from a middle-aged African American businessman.⁣ ⁣

“Dude I gotta tell you the George Floyd incident in Minnesota hurt. I cried when I saw that video. It broke me down. The ‘knee on the neck’ is a metaphor for how the system so cavalierly holds black folks down, ignoring the cries for help. People don’t care. Truly tragic.”⁣ ⁣

Another friend of mine used the powerful song that went viral from 12-year-old Keedron Bryant to describe the frustrations he was feeling.⁣ ⁣ The circumstances of my friend and Keedron may be different, but their anguish is the same. It’s shared by me and millions of others.⁣ ⁣ It’s natural to wish for life “to just get back to normal” as a pandemic and economic crisis upend everything around us. But we have to remember that for millions of Americans, being treated differently on account of race is tragically, painfully, maddeningly “normal” – whether it’s while dealing with the health care system, or interacting with the criminal justice system, or jogging down the street, or just watching birds in a park.⁣ ⁣ This shouldn’t be “normal” in 2020 America. It can’t be “normal.” If we want our children to grow up in a nation that lives up to its highest ideals, we can and must be better.⁣ ⁣ It will fall mainly on the officials of Minnesota to ensure that the circumstances surrounding George Floyd’s death are investigated thoroughly and that justice is ultimately done. But it falls on all of us, regardless of our race or station – including the majority of men and women in law enforcement who take pride in doing their tough job the right way, every day – to work together to create a “new normal” in which the legacy of bigotry and unequal treatment no longer infects our institutions or our hearts.