種族歧視

US has yet to overcome its tortured racial past
美國仍未擺脫種族對立的歷史陰影


哈佛法學院教授高登-利德:傑弗遜曾指出,美國白人無法克服對黑人「根深蒂固的偏見」。最近因黑人青年之死引發的騷亂證明,令人不安的種族關係史仍然困擾著美國。

For a founding father who usually took a sunny view of his nation’s prospects, it was a darkly pessimistic prophesy. In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson argued that if – as he hoped – America’s black slaves were one day set free, the result would be conflict and an inevitable descent into racial war.

儘管湯瑪斯•傑弗遜(Thomas Jefferson)是一位通常對國家前景持樂觀看法的國父,但他曾提出一則充滿陰鬱悲觀味道的預言。在《維吉尼亞筆記》(Notes on the State of Virginia)一書中,傑弗遜指出,如果就像他所希望的那樣,有一天美國黑奴獲得了自由,那麼將會爆發衝突,並且不可避免地演變爲種族戰爭。

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