美国急需的一场演讲！他或许是能救国的当代马丁路德金

陌上美国

本周三，拜登总统按惯例在美国国会发表讲话，他选择的时间恰在上任百日的前夜。同样依据传统，总统的对手党派可以派出代表，就总统讲话做出回应演说。这次由南卡国会参议员Tim Scott（蒂姆·斯科特）代表共和党，做了该重要发言。

斯科特参议员从个人奋斗及家庭经历出发，鼓舞像他曾经一样被贫困困扰的美国人，追求美国梦，并称这些理想只有在美国这片土地上才能实现。他还用详尽的事实点破对手党派所做的一系列缺乏常识和国民共识的行为，指出美国面临的严峻社会文化危机，鼓舞国家走出纷争，从合作角度一起向前迈进。

其温和又不失敏锐的演讲风格，机智洞察而富有实践经验的内容，带有个人色彩鼓舞人心的经历，都让人耳目一新。该演讲获得轰动效应，斯科特的网站都因为访问人数潮水般涌入而出现过载的问题。

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01. 中文翻译

晚上好我是来自超棒的南卡州的国会参议员蒂姆·斯科特！

我们刚刚听了拜登总统的首次国会报告，我们总统说的听上去似乎不错，他的报告用了很多好词。拜登总统向你承诺，能够团结我们国家的特别的领导力，降低社会内压，并成为所有美国人的领袖。

这是他们的口头的基调，你刚刚从演讲中又一次听到这些。但是我们国家已经很疲劳这些空洞的承诺了，我们需要真正能团结国家的政策和进展。

在过去的三个月中，总统和他的党的行动，进一步地分裂了我们。我不会花大家的时间去攻击和搞党派争执，那些你随时可以从电视上看到。我想在这做一个真诚的对话，关于常识和共同点的沟通，关于我们国家正在滑离共享的基石，以及我们该如何一同前进。

在我成长过程中，我从没有想过自己有一天能站在这里。当我还是个孩子的时候我父母离婚了，我妈妈带着我和我兄弟搬到了我外祖父家。我们三个人就住一个房间。我心情困顿，充满愤怒，甚至差一点从学校退学。

但是我被（神）保佑着。首先我有一个虔诚的母亲。请允许我，对那些单亲妈妈们说，那些努力谋生辛勤工作的母亲，当你们为生活困惑时候

不要发愁，神在保佑着你惊人的努力，你的孩子就像我一样。

我也曾经被另一个人保佑，就是一个叫约翰·莫尼兹的Chick-fil-A（快餐店）的营销商。

我最终获得了各种机会，这些只有在美国才可能发生。

在过去的一年中，我看到新冠攻击我曾攀爬过的每级社会阶梯。很多家庭过早地失去了父母和爷爷一辈的亲人，很多独立小业主陷入困境。

成为基督徒曾改变了我的生活，但是几个月前太多的教堂被关闭。

更让人难过的是，成百上千万的孩子失去了一年的学习机会，他们一天都耽误不起。今天让孩子不能去学校上学，相当于拖累他们成年后的未来。

我们的公立学校几个月前就应该开放了，其他国家就如此做了，私立和教会学校也如此做的。科学数据显示，开放学校是安全的。但是拥有权力的成年人往往把科学扔在了一边，而像我当年一样的孩子，会因此落后了。

我看到的最清楚的例子就是，学校对我们的重要性。因为我们知道，教育是在美国最接近奇迹的事情。

去年，在共和党的领导下，两党五次合作通过了COVID有关的立法。当时的国会支持了我们的学校、医院，拯救了经济，并资助了“神速行动”，在创纪录的时间内提供了疫苗。在参议院中，所有五项法案均获得了超过90票，常识获得了共识。

今年2月，共和党人告诉拜登总统，我们希望继续两党合作，以完成这场斗争。但是民主党人想独自做，他们要花近2万亿美元通过了一个党派立场鲜明的法案。按（拜登的）白宫的夸耀说法，是历史上最左倾的法案。其中只有1％的预算跟疫苗有关系，而且没让立即重开学校。

COVID曾经让国会五次跨党派合作，这届政府却使我们分裂。

我们本来有另一个可以团结的议题，基础设施建设。共和党人支持所有我们通常当成基础设施建设的项目，修路，建桥，港口，机场，水路，高速宽带。我们全力以赴支持这些。但再一次，民主党人要把这个事弄成一党利益，他们甚至不会通过建桥（指合作）来实现建桥。只有不到6％的总预算是用于公路和桥梁，这是一个只有立波儒喜欢的大政府浪费清单。

此外，一代人一遇的遏制工作机会的增税政策。根据专家们的看法，一言以蔽之，就是个拉低美国普通工人工资，让经济缩水的方案。

今晚我们还听说了所谓的家庭计划，更多的税务负担甚至更多的支出。从出生到大学，让政府更加干预您的生活。美国梦的美丽在于，家庭可以自主定义它，我们应该为所有家庭扩大机会和选择，而不是让自认为自己最懂的民主党人的意识形态去决定哪些问题上投入金钱。

以打压经济为代价的基础设施建设支出有违常识；削弱南部边防并制造危机，也完全没有同情心；总统也放弃了他几十年来坚持的一些原则，现在他说，纳税人应为堕胎提供资金；他为扩增最高法院大法官人数在暗度陈仓。

这些都没有国民共识。

我们国家最为缺乏共识的事就是，不顾一切地谈种族。我经历过歧视的痛苦，我知道无缘无故被叫走的痛苦；在商店购物，被盯着的感觉。我记得每天早餐时候，祖父都会打开报纸阅读，但是后来我意识到，他并不识字，他只是想树立好榜样。

我也经历过另一种不宽容，我被立波儒的激进主义者称为“汤姆大叔”，还被骂N-word(黑鬼)。就在上周，一家全国性媒体宣布我家不贫困反而有特权，因为我祖上多年前有个世代拥有土地的亲戚。相信我，我以亲历证明我们需要的治愈远未结束。

2015年，在沃尔特·斯科特枪击案后，我写了一份法案，为警察佩戴随身摄像镜头提供资金。去年，在布莱安娜·泰勒和乔治·弗洛伊德案后，我提出了一个更全面的警察改革提案。但是，我的民主党同事阻止法案通过。我抛出橄榄枝，提出修正案。而民主党人常采用阻挠议事来阻止辩论。我的民主党友人们似乎更热衷于不去解决这些问题，但是我仍在努力，希望情况会有所不同。

当美国团结一致的时候，我们取得过巨大的进步。但是，有一股强的势力希望我们分裂。一百年前，孩子们在学校被灌输：他们的皮肤颜色是自己最重要的特征，好像他们比别人低等。

今天，孩子们被再度灌输肤色定义了他们，他们的肤色决定他们是压迫者还是被压迫者。从大学到公司，再到我们的文化，一些人假装（在种族问题上）我们根本没有取得进步，来赚钱并获得权力，去扒开那些我们本已经要获得治愈的伤痕。

你知道，这样是错误的，我很清楚地知道：美国不是个种族主义国家，用歧视的做法去反歧视，是开历史倒车。利用我们过往的痛苦有目的地封杀当前的辩论，也很错误。

我是个一生都在南方投票的非裔美国人，投票权对我是带有个人感情色彩的要事。共和党人跟选民一致，支持在更难作弊前提下更容易投票的改革

。多数美国人支持早投票同时支持出示选民证件，这包括非裔和西裔美国人。常识带来共识。

但是今天，这种对话的基础已经崩溃了。佐治亚州通过了一项法律，扩大早期投票，防止无借口的邮寄投票。并非拜登总统宣称那样，实际上该法案没有减少选举日的时间。如果您确实读过该法案，那么就该知道它代表主流民意。在佐治亚州，早投票比在民主党治理下的纽约都容易。

但是左派不想让你知道这些，他们希望人们在对法案不知情下就加入反对。真相查证人员已指出白宫在发表虚假陈述，总统甚至荒谬地声称这比吉姆·克劳法还要糟糕。

到底发生了什么？让我告诉您：民主党要独揽大权。这种错误炮制的愤怒

有可能助力民主党的新法案，该法案将让民主党席卷控制所有50个州的选举，它将把公共资金输血给您反对的政治运动，并使跨党派的联邦选举委员会成为一党主导。这些都无关于公民权利或过去发生的种族主义，只是与操纵将来的选举有关。

呵，不，同样是阻挠议事，奥巴马和拜登当参议员时，他们赞扬阻挠议事；民主党人去年阻止我的警察改革立法时，使用了阻挠议事。转眼，阻挠议事就变成了种族主义遗物。原因只是因为，现在他们掌权。种族不是一个被一方利用去推行一切的政治武器，这点太重要了。

对我们国家来说，现在本该是个快乐的春天季节，本届政府继承了已经被前任扭转的形势。得益于川普政府主导的“超速行动”，安全有效的疫苗正在战胜疫情。多亏了我们去年的两党合作，就业率正在反弹。

那么，为什么我们感到如此分裂，焦虑呢？一个充满希望的国家不应感到负担沉重。承诺将团结国家的总统，不应推动使我们分裂的议程。美国家庭值得拥有更好的明天，而我们知道什么是更好的日子。

就在疫情爆发前，我们拥有一生中最具活力的经济：非裔、西裔和亚裔美国人，都实现了历史最低失业率；也是女性近70年来，最低的失业率；而且，低收入人群工资增长速度高于高收入人群的增幅，收入最低25％的人的工资增长，快于收入最高的25％的人群。

我们做到了这些是因为，共和党改善每个美国人的机会。另外，我们还通过了改善内城的法案，刑法改革法案，并第一次给黑人大学批准永久的联邦资助，我们在努力攻克毒品危机，重建了我们的军队，并给像我妈妈这样的单身母亲减税。

我们美好的前途不来自政府的计谋，也不会是社会主义的空想。美好的前途来自你，我这些美国大众，黑人，西裔，白人，亚裔；共和党或民主党；勇敢的警察和黑人邻居们；我们不是敌人，我们是一个大家庭。

我们一起生活在世界上最伟大的国家。在这个国家，我的爷爷在他94年的生命里看到了，家庭成员从采摘棉花的奴隶到美国参议员。

所以我不仅充满希望，而且满怀信心地认为我们的未来会更好。原罪不是故事的结束，它不会永远在我们和我们国家的灵魂里，真正的故事是救赎。

我现在站在这里，是因为我妈妈以前在我困难的时候为我祈祷。我认为我们的国家和我有类似的经历，因为几代的美国人用他们当时的方式祈祷，上帝都聆听并赠予。

所以我想用，帮助我在新冠期间度过难关的一首赞美诗，来结束我的发言。音乐是新的，但歌词是来自圣经。

祈祷上帝保佑你，拥有你

让他的脸庞照耀你，给你带来光彩

让上帝在你身前、身后、身旁

无论你喜悦还是忧伤时

上帝在眷顾你

愿上帝继续眷顾我们的国家

我们的家庭和子子孙孙，延续千万代

晚安，愿上帝保佑美国！

02. 英文全文

Good evening. I'm Senator Tim Scott from the great state of South Carolina. We just heard President Biden's first address to Congress. Our president seems like a good man. His speech was full of good words, but President Biden promised you a specific kind of leadership. He promised to unite a nation, to lower the temperature, to govern for all Americans no matter how we voted. This was a pitch, you just heard it again, but our nation is starving for more than empty platitudes. We need policies and progress that brings us closer together. But three months in, the actions of the president and his party are pulling us further and further apart.

I won't waste your time with finger pointing or partisan bickering. You can get that on TV any time you want. I want to have an honest conversation. A common sense and common ground about this feeling that our nation is sliding off his shared foundation and how we move forward together. Growing up I never dreamed I would be standing here tonight. When I was a kid my parents divorced, my mother and my brother and I moved in with my grandparents. Three of us sharing one bedroom. I was disillusioned and angry, and I nearly failed out of school, but I was blessed. First, with a praying mom. And let me say this to the single mothers out there, who are working their tails off working hard trying to make the ends meet, wondering if it's worth it: you bet it is. God bless your amazing effort on heart of your kids. I was also blessed by a Chick-fil-A operator, John Moniz. And finally, with a string of opportunities that are only possible here in America.

This past year, I've watched COVID attack every rung of the ladder that helped me up. So many families have lost parents and grandparents too early. So many small businesses have gone under. Becoming a Christian transformed my life, but for months too many churches were shut down. Most of all, I'm saddened that millions of kids have lost a year of learning when they could not afford to lose a single day. Locking vulnerable kids out of the classroom is locking adults out of their future. Our public school should have reopened months ago. Other countries did. Private and religious schools did. Science has shown, for months, that schools are safe. But too often powerful grown-ups set science aside. And kids like me were left behind.

The clearest case I've seen for school choice in our lifetimes. Because we know education is the closest thing to magic in America. Last year, under Republican leadership, we passed five bipartisan COVID packages. Congress supported our schools, our hospitals, saved our economy and funded Operation Warp Speed, delivering vaccines in record time. All five bills got 90 votes in the Senate. Common sense found common ground. In February, Republicans told President Biden we wanted to keep working together to finish this fight. But Democrats wanted to go it alone. They spent almost $2 trillion on a partisan bill that the White House bragged was the most liberal bill in American history. Only 1 percent went to vaccinations, no requirement to reopen schools promptly.

COVID brought Congress together five times. This administration pushed us apart. Another issue that should unite us is infrastructure. Republicans support everything you think of when you think of infrastructure. Roads, bridges, ports, airports, waterways, high-speed broadband-- we're in for all of that. But again, Democrats want a partisan wish list. They won't even build bridges to build bridges. Less than 6 percent of the president's plan goes to roads and bridges. It's a liberal wish list of big government waste. Plus, the biggest job-killing tax hikes in a generation. Experts say, when all is said and done, it would lower wages of the average American worker and shrink our economy.

Tonight, we also heard about a so-called family plan. Even more taxing even more spending to put Washington even more in the middle of your life, from the cradle to college. The beauty of the American dream is that families get to define it for themselves. We should be expanding opportunities and options for all families, not throwing money at certain issues because Democrats think they know best. Infrastructure spending that shrinks our economy is not common sense. Weakening our Southern borders and creating a crisis is not compassionate. The president is also abandoning principles he's held for decades. Now he says your tax dollars should fund abortions. He's laying groundwork to pack the Supreme Court. This is not common ground.

Nowhere do we need common ground, more desperately been in our discussions of race. I have experienced the pain of discrimination. I know what it feels like to be pulled over for no reason, to be followed around the store while I'm shopping. I remember every morning at the kitchen table, my grandfather would open the newspaper and read it, I thought. But later I realized he had never learned to read it, he just wanted to set the right example. I've also experienced a different kind of intolerance. I get called Uncle Tom and the n-word by progressives by liberals. Just last week, a national newspaper suggested my family's poverty was actually privilege. Because a relative owned land, generations before my time. Believe me, I know first-hand, our healing is not finished.

In 2015, after the shooting of Walter Scott, I wrote a bill to fund body cameras. Last year, after the deaths of Brianna Taylor and George Floyd, I built an even bigger police reform proposal. But my Democratic colleagues blocked it. I extended an olive branch, I offered amendments. But Democrats used to filibuster to block the debate from even happening. My friends across the aisle seem to want the issue more than they wanted a solution. But I'm still working, I'm hopeful that this will be different. When America comes together, we've made tremendous progress. But powerful forces want to pull us apart. A hundred years ago, kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was their most important characteristic. As if they looked a certain way inferior.

Today, kids are being taught that the color of their skin defines them again. And if you look a certain way, they're in an oppressor. From colleges, to corporations, to our culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress at all. By doubling down on the divisions we've worked so hard to heal. You know this stuff is wrong. Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country. It's backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination. And it's wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.

I'm an African American who's voted in the South my entire life. I take voting rights personally. Republicans support making it easier to vote and harder to cheat and so do the voters. Big majorities of Americans support early voting and big majorities support voter ID, including African Americans and Hispanics. Common sense makes common ground. But today, this conversation has collapsed. The state of Georgia passed a law that expands early voting, preserves no-excuse mail-in voting and despite what the president claimed, did not reduce election day hours. If you actually read this law, it's mainstream. It will be easier to vote early in Georgia than in Democrat-run, New York. But the left doesn't want you to know that. They want people virtue signaling by yelling about a law they haven't even read. Fact checkers have called out the White House for misstatements. The president absurdly claims that this is worse than Jim Crow.

What is going on here? I'll tell you: a Washington power grab. This misplaced outrage is supposed to justify Democrats' new sweeping bill that would take over elections for all 50 states. It would send public funds to political campaigns you disagree with and make the bipartisan Federal Elections Commission partisan. This is not about civil rights or our racial past, it's about rigging elections in the future. And no, the same filibuster that President Obama and President Biden praise when they were Senators, the same filibuster that the Democrats used to kill my police reform bill last year, has not suddenly become a racist relic just because the shoe is now on the other foot. Race is not a political weapon to settle every issue the way one side wants. It's far too important.

This should be a joyful springtime for our nation. This administration inherited a tide had already turned. The coronavirus is on the run thanks to Operation Warp Speed and the Trump administration our country is flooded with safe and effective vaccines. Thanks to our bipartisan work last year, job openings are rebounding. So why do we feel so divided, anxious? A nation with so much cause for hope should not feel so heavy laden A president who promised to bring us together should not be pushing agendas that tear us apart. The American family deserves better. And we know what better looks like. Just before COVID, we had the most inclusive economy in my lifetime. The lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for African Americans, Hispanics and Asians. And a 70-year low, nearly, for women. Wages were growing faster at the bottom than at the top. The bottom 25 percent saw their wages go up faster than the top 25 percent.

That happened because Republicans focus on expanding opportunity for all Americans. In addition to that, we passed opportunity zones, criminal justice reform and permanent funding for historically Black colleges and universities for the first time ever. We fought the drug epidemic, rebuilt our military and cut taxes for working families and single moms like the one that raised me. Our best future will not come from Washington schemes or socialist dreams. It will come from you: the American people. Black, Hispanic, white and Asian, Republican and Democrat, brave police officers and black neighborhoods. We are not adversaries, we are family. We are all in this together and we get to live in the greatest country on Earth. The country where my grandfather in his 94 years saw his family go from cotton to Congress in one lifetime.

So, I am more than hopeful, I am confident that our finest hour is yet to come. Original sin is never the end of the story. Not in our souls and not for our nation. The real story is always redemption. I am standing here because my mom has prayed me through some really tough times. I believe our nation has succeeded the same way. Because generations of Americans in their own ways have asked for grace and God has supplied it. So, I will close with a word from a worship song that really helped me through this past year of COVID. The music is new, but the words draw from Scripture. May the Lord bless you and keep you, make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May his presence go before you and behind you, and beside you, in your weeping and your rejoicing. He is for you. May his favor be upon our nation for a thousand generations and your family and your children and their children. Good night and God bless the United States of America.

参考资料：

1.https://www.newsweek.com/read-full-text-tim-scotts-republican-rebuttal-joe-bidens-joint-address-congress-1587308

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