第3096期:Cover up racist tattoos

I feel that us, as the white community, that we hold a very strong responsibility to speak up and be heard.我觉得我们白人群体肩负着重大责任去表达和发声。My name is Jeremiah Hirsch and I am the owner of Electric Pair O' Dice Tattoo in Fredericksburg, Virginia.我叫杰里迈亚·赫希，是弗吉尼亚州弗雷德里克斯堡“Electric Pair O' Dice Tattoo”的老板。Erase the hate is a campaign that we put together to cover up racist and offensive tattoos.“消除仇恨”是我们发起的一项活动，旨在遮盖种族主义和冒犯性纹身。I started to post information and stuff to raise awareness about Black Lives Matter and towards the Black community.我开始发帖来提高人们对“黑人的命也是命”运动以及黑人社区的认识。And in doing so, I had a gentleman that I went to high school with that reached out to me about having a Confederate flag tattoo on his foot that he was embarrassed of and it was hitting him even harder seeing the stuff that I was posting.在此期间，一位高中同学联系了我，他说自己脚上有个邦联军旗的文身，这让他很尴尬，看了我发的帖子后更是自惭形秽。And he asked if we would work with him on covering it up.他问我愿不愿意帮他遮掉这个纹身。So I went to the guys in the shop and I was like, I think this would be a really good opportunity for us to help this guy out and cover it up, document it and then post it and then launch this campaign of Erase the hate.然后我就到店里去跟员工说，我觉得这对我们来说是个绝佳的机会，我们可以帮他遮盖纹身，把这件事记录下来，然后发布出去，接着发起“消除仇恨”的活动。I want to cover up this tattoo that I got a long time ago. I'm getting rid of this heart here with this Confederate flag in it.我想遮掉这个很久以前的纹身。我正在去除这个带有邦联旗帜的心形纹身。The tattoo is free but we ask for a minimum donation for $100 that will go to one of the organizations that we're working with, that goes directly to the Black community.遮掉纹身是免费的，但我们要求至少捐助100美元，这笔钱将捐给我们合作的一个组织，然后直接流向黑人社区。People have really been behind what we're doing. I mean you do have some, like, a handful that are, like, against it.人们一直在背后支持我们的行动。确实有那么一小撮人反对这件事。Their argument is that it's heritage, not hate and that it's a symbolism of, you know, state freedom and stuff like that.他们声称这种南方联邦的纹身是文化遗产，而非仇恨，而且是各州自由的标志。But I feel, you know, not to be disrespectful, but I feel at the same time they're not very educated in the history of what it's behind and what it stands for and what the different declarations of the Confederacy was for. It was to keep and instill slavery.说句难听的，我觉得他们对这些事物背后的历史、代表的意义以及南方联邦各种主张的目的都不太了解。邦联的目的就是维护和巩固奴隶制。From my own experience and convictions that I've had, just seeing daily interactions and stuff like that, showed me my privilege.从我个人的经历和信念来看，仅仅是观察日常的互动之类的事情，就让我意识到了自己的特权。Being a white male in America and seeing the unjust acts and treatment towards the Black community and the huge difference between those two.作为一名美国白人男性，我看到了针对黑人社区的不公正行为和待遇，以及这两个群体之间存在的巨大差异。I wanted to get involved as much as I could. So I started actively going to protests.我想尽可能多地参与进来。 所以我开始积极参加黑人抗议活动。I'm a single dad with four kids and I've always led by an example that we see someone by their heart and their actions and that love is love, that it's universal.我是一个单身父亲，有四个孩子，我一直以身作则，告诉孩子们要通过一个人的内心和行为去看待他们，爱就是爱，大爱无疆。Everything deserves a chance and the opportunity to live and be loved.万物都值得拥有生存和被爱的机会。My upbringing, my parents were preachers and was raised in the Christian faith and as I got older and ventured out on my own, I experienced other religions and stuff.在我的成长经历中，我的父母都是传教士，我是在基督教信仰的熏陶下长大的，随着我年龄增长并开始独自探索，也接触到了其他宗教。I really connected with Buddhist and Hindu traditions and really found this parallel between religions and understanding that the universal importance is empathy, love and compassion.我真的与佛教和印度教传统产生了共鸣，并且确实发现了不同宗教之间的相似之处，也明白了共情、爱和慈悲具有普世的重要性。And then I see this connection between them and between human beings as a whole, and that being present here in this moment and where we are as a nation, is very important that we need this progressive push forward for equality for every human being that's on this planet, especially the Black community where they're affected most.然后我看到了宗教之间以及全人类之间的联系，此时此刻我们身处此地，作为一个民族，我们需要为地球上每一个人争取平等而不断向前推进，这一点非常重要，尤其是对受影响最大的黑人社区来说。