1、翻了个译，MTI专业辅导So, Im afraid.Right now,on this stage,I feel fear.In my life, I aint met many peoplethat will readily admit when they are afraid.And I think thats because deep down,they know how easy it spreads.See, fear is like a disease.When it moves, it moves like wildfire.But what happens when,even
2、in the face of that fear,you do what youve got to do?Thats called courage.And just like fear,courage is contagious.See, Im from East St. Louis, Illinois.Thats a small cityacross the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.I have lived in and around St. Louis my entire life.When Michael Brown, Jr.
3、,an ordinary teenager,was gunned down by police in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri -another suburb, but north of St. Louis -I remember thinking,he aint the first,and he wont be the last young kid to lose his life to law enforcement.But see, his death was different.When Mike was killed,I remember the powe
4、rs that be trying to use fear as a weapon.The police response to a community in mourning was to use forceto impose fear:fear of militarized police,imprisonment,fines.The media even tried to make us afraid of each otherby the way they spun the story.And all of these things have worked in the past.But
5、 like I said, this time it was different.Michael Browns death and the subsequent treatment of the communityled to a string of protests in and around Ferguson and St. Louis.When I got out to those protests about the fourth or fifth day,it was not out of courage;it was out of guilt.See, Im black.I don
6、t know if yall noticed that.But I couldnt sit in St. Louis, minutes away from Ferguson,and not go see.So I got off my ass to go check it out.When I got out there,I found something surprising.I found anger; there was a lot of that.But what I found more of was love.People with love for themselves.Love
7、 for their community.And it was beautiful -until the police showed up.Then a new emotion was interjected into the conversation:fear.Now, Im not going to lie;when I saw those armored vehicles,and all that gearand all those gunsand all those policeI was terrified -personally.And when I looked around t
8、hat crowd,I saw a lot of people that had the same thing going on.But I also saw people with something else inside of them.That was courage.See, those people yelled,and they screamed,and they were not about to back down from the police.They were past that point.And then I could feel something in me c
9、hanging,so I yelled and I screamed,and I noticed that everybody around me was doing the same thing.And there was nothing like that feeling.So I decided I wanted to do something more.I went home, I thought: Im an artist. I make shit.So I started making things specific to the protest,things that would
10、 be weapons in a spiritual war,things that would give people voiceand things that would fortify them for the road ahead.I did a project where I took pictures of the hands of protestersand put them up and down the boarded-up buildingsand community shops.My goal was to raise awareness and to raise the morale.And I think, for a minute at least,it did just that.Then I thought, I want to uplift the stories of these peopleI was watching being courageous in the moment.And myself and my friend,and filmmaker and partner Sabaah Folayandid just that with our documentary,Whose Streets?翻了个译，MTI专业辅导
