11月17日,几位华裔高中生在美国费城地铁上到四名黑人女孩袭击和侮辱。视频中能听到她们大骂"f*ing China", "China chicken" 等侮辱性称号。下面是我写的一首Rap中英对照歌词,对于美国的亚裔歧视现状的回击。

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Asian Hate

亚裔仇恨

I can no longer stay silent for slurs hurled at my race

面对针对我的种族的侮辱,我没法再保持沉默

And I don't understand why you think we are to blame for the life you cannot escape

以及我不理解你们自己混得不好就要来怪我们亚裔

Nor can I understand why you think we are the scapegoat for the misery you face

我也不能理解你们为啥认为我们是你们人生悲剧的替罪羊

We are Asian so we are supposedly addicted to Louis Vuitton and iPhones

我们是亚裔,所以我们该对路易威登和iPhone上瘾

We are Asian so we are supposedly wealthy and lavish

我们是亚裔,所以我们该有钱且大肆挥霍

We are Asian so we supposedly occupy the 1% materially

我们是亚裔,所以我们都该是那最富的百分之一

We are Asian so we are supposedly only good at numbers, staying silently backstage and ignored by the spotlight

我们是亚裔,所以我们应当只擅长于数字,在舞台后面被忽视并把风光让给别人

We are Asian so we are supposedly meek

我们是亚裔,所以我们理所应当是温顺的

We are Asian so we are supposed to be physically weak

我们是亚裔,所以我们就该体格羸弱

We are Asian so we are supposedly down to be bullied

我们是亚裔,所以我们就该被人欺负

We are Asian so we are supposedly silent and docile

我们是亚裔,所以我们就该闷不做声且被驯服

Just like the Jews in Europe for two thousand years before the holocaust

一切理所应当,如同在犹太大屠杀之前,犹太人在欧洲两千年来的遭遇一样

Being systematically discriminated and treated with institutionalized hatred, the only medal we've got is the title "model minority"

整个社会制度都在歧视我们,对我们的仇恨已经成为一种社会机制。我们唯一得到的安慰嘉奖就是“模范少数族裔”的称号

As if no strike no demonstration and remaining nonresistant would guarantee our safety

似乎我们不抗议不抵抗的话,我们就会获得人身安全

Model minority doesn't naturally grant us Asian privilege or Asian excellence, whatever we got, we work twice as hard

作为“模范少数族裔”,我们亚裔并不会天然得到“亚裔特权”,也不会自动取得“亚裔高成就”。我们付出了两倍的努力才获得跟别人一样的东西

Our compliant Asian workforce make this country hum while you devalue our effort

这个国家(美国)的运转靠的是我们这些顺从的亚裔劳动力,然而你们贬低我们付出的努力

And we are used as an excuse by the establishment to not to provide social assistance to black and Latino

美国当权派不给黑人和拉美裔足够的社会援助,并把我们亚裔(靠自己但成功了)当做了这样做的借口

But just do make clear who hammer the wedge, who create the racial division and social apartheid?

但丫的搞清楚点,究竟是谁搞的种族分裂和种族隔离?

Being black doesn't grant you rights to bully others

你们是黑人,不代表你们就有权利欺负别的族裔

Is this as far as Black Lives Matter eventually got you?

这就是“黑命贵”运动教你们的吗?

If you want to find people to blame just pinpoint correctly the target and hit in the bullseye

如果你们想为自己的悲惨人生找一个宣泄口,请找准了目标再说,然后直击靶心

Just be clear we played no part in slavery trade

搞清楚了,我们亚裔没有买卖黑奴

Just be clear we owned no cotton fields

搞清楚了,我们亚裔没有运营棉花田

Just be clear none of us were former KKK

搞清楚了,我们亚裔没一个人以前是3K党

If you think someone should get out of this country, make it clear you too are not indigenous

如果你们认为有人该滚出这个国家,先搞清楚你们也不是本地土著

You may argue we had no part to play in American history as portrayed in mainstream media

你们也许会说我们亚裔没有参与你们美国的历史进程,因为主流媒体也都这么说

But who built the transcontinental railroad connecting New England with California, paving foundation for your Pacific supremacy?

但是是谁建立了太平洋铁路,将美国的东西两岸连在了一起,让你们美国拥有了太平洋霸权?

Under each rail lays a wandering Chinese soul, the very soul whose owner you called Yellow Peril and Chinks!

每个铁轨枕木下都有一个华工的冤魂,这个冤魂的主人被你们叫做黄祸以及小眼睛中国佬

It's our chinky hands that connect your dreams, it's our chinky eyes that browse through digits, keeping America's status of technological supremacy

是我们小眼睛中国佬的手连接了你们的梦想,是我们的小眼睛来浏览和审阅代码,保持了美国的科技霸权

If we are truly the Yellow Peril then why do you think you can walk away with the bullying?

如果我们真的是黄祸般威胁,你们为啥觉得欺负我们会没有后果?

Our ancestors conquered half the continent while civilization was sparse on this planet

世界大部分地区是原始部落时,我们的祖先就已经征服了半个大洲

Yet we are still the invisible minority, vilified marginalized as culturally pariah

然而我们仍然是隐形的少数族裔,被社会主流忽视,被诋毁被边缘化成为了文化上最低等的贱民

We Asians and other minorities are victims as well

我们亚裔和其他少数族裔(黑人、拉美裔等)都是现状的受害者

Running with one leg but faster than two legs doesn't mean single legged is better

一只腿奋力跑步,却跑的比某些人两条腿还要快,并不意味着一条腿本身就能更快

图片是美国杂志Harper's Weekly的一副海报,叫做《黄祸》。海报的上画作来自德国画家Hermann Knackfuss, 他于1895年受德皇威廉二世委托而作。画作原文为Völker Europas, wahrt eure heiligsten Güter (="Peoples of Europe, Guard your Dearest Goods," “欧洲人民,保护你们神圣的上帝”)。可以见到左边的欧洲战士和右边象征着东方的佛像。