“You are not alone, we are here with you”
（后面有中文翻译）
There was a speech presented by Brandon, an African-American speaker from Teen Truth at my school today. He gave a great presentation.
The presentation started with a video (I cannot find the video, so I'm going to summarize it). It's a short movie that make by a student years ago, it told a conversation that the narrator heard in the hall way at school when he is going to his English class. The narrator heard a white girl talked to an Asian girl about a black man who was cleaning the window, then they called him a "nigger", but at the end of the video, he said, that wasn't a black man, but a disable cleaning the window, and the girls called him a "retard".
Then Brandon talked about his own life, his famliy was poor and he has three siblings. He only have one pair of jeans, but he flips it everyday to make people think he has two pairs. At third grade, in his English class, his teacher asked him what he want to do in the future, Brandon said he wants to help someone like him. The teacher said, you cannot help people if you cannot read. Brandon answered: "But I can talk." Brandon has reading disability, and he did it, he is a speaker now, and gave this great speech. When Brandon was in high school, one day, his elder brother came and said: "Hey, I killed someone." He said that he feels sad because he and his brother spend days and nights together and share almost everything, but now, his brother is going to spend his rest of his life in prison. Also in high school, junior year, one of his teacher met him in the hall way and told him a joke: "The only thing that a person do to change his life is reading", Brandon said in that moment, all the memories came back, he wants to laugh but also cry, because he has reading disability, so he talked to another teacher about it, and that teacher said, you know what, the teacher telling the joke is right, reading is the only thing a person could do to change his life. Since then, he started to read everything he could find, just to change his own life. Then he said, "I'm the only child in my mom's four children, who lives like what she dreams."
He talked about the pressures, he had pressures just like what he had talked about, we have pressures every day, every time, every moment, the pressure might be going to a good college or university, or getting a better job and have higher salary, but no matter what, we need to beat them, and kick them in butt, and “You are not alone, we are here with you”. A 14-year old girl killed herself a day after jumping from the roof, don’t do that, because “You are not alone, we are here with you”.
今天在我学校有来自 Teen Truth 的非裔美国人演讲者 Brandon 的演讲。 他做了一个很棒的演讲。
演讲以一段视频开始（我找不到视频，所以我要总结一下）。 这是一个学生多年前制作的短片，它讲述了叙述者在去他的英语课时在学校走廊上听到的一段对话。 解说员听到一个白人女孩和一个亚裔女孩谈论一个正在擦窗户的黑人，然后他们称他为“黑鬼”，但在视频的最后，他说，那不是黑人，而是 擦窗户的残疾人，女孩们称他为“弱智”。
然后布兰登谈到了自己的生活，他的家庭很穷，他有三个兄弟姐妹。 他只有一条牛仔裤，却天天翻来覆去让人以为他有两条。 三年级时，在他的英语课上，他的老师问他将来想做什么，布兰登说他想帮助像他这样的人。 老师说，你不识字就不能帮助别人。 布兰登回答：“但我会说话。” 布兰登有阅读障碍，他做到了，他现在是一名演讲者，并发表了精彩的演讲。 布兰登上高中的时候，有一天，他的哥哥来了，说：“嘿，我杀了人。” 他说，他很难过，因为他和哥哥日日夜夜在一起，几乎分享一切，而现在，他哥哥将在监狱里度过余生。 同样是在高中，大三的时候，他的一位老师在走廊上遇到了他，并给他讲了一个笑话：“一个人唯一能改变他生活的事情就是读书”，布兰登说那一刻，所有的回忆都来了 回来，他又想笑又哭，因为他有阅读障碍，所以他和另一个老师谈起这件事，那个老师说，你知道吗，老师讲的笑话是对的，阅读是一个人唯一可以做的事情去改变他的生活。 从此，他开始阅读一切能找到的东西，只为改变自己的人生。 然后他说，“我是我妈妈四个孩子中唯一的孩子，她过着她梦想的生活。”
他谈到了压力，就像他所说的那样，他有压力，我们每天、每时每刻都有压力，压力可能是上一所好大学或大学，或者找到更好的工作和更高的薪水 ，但无论如何，我们都要打败他们，踢他们的屁股，“你不是一个人，我们在你身边”。 一个 14 岁的女孩在跳楼一天后自杀了，不要那样做，因为“你并不孤单，我们和你在一起”。（Google translate机翻，可能有错请见谅）
There was a speech presented by Brandon, an African-American speaker from Teen Truth at my school today. He gave a great presentation.
The presentation started with a video (I cannot find the video, so I'm going to summarize it). It's a short movie that make by a student years ago, it told a conversation that the narrator heard in the hall way at school when he is going to his English class. The narrator heard a white girl talked to an Asian girl about a black man who was cleaning the window, then they called him a "nigger", but at the end of the video, he said, that wasn't a black man, but a disable cleaning the window, and the girls called him a "retard".
Then Brandon talked about his own life, his famliy was poor and he has three siblings. He only have one pair of jeans, but he flips it everyday to make people think he has two pairs. At third grade, in his English class, his teacher asked him what he want to do in the future, Brandon said he wants to help someone like him. The teacher said, you cannot help people if you cannot read. Brandon answered: "But I can talk." Brandon has reading disability, and he did it, he is a speaker now, and gave this great speech. When Brandon was in high school, one day, his elder brother came and said: "Hey, I killed someone." He said that he feels sad because he and his brother spend days and nights together and share almost everything, but now, his brother is going to spend his rest of his life in prison. Also in high school, junior year, one of his teacher met him in the hall way and told him a joke: "The only thing that a person do to change his life is reading", Brandon said in that moment, all the memories came back, he wants to laugh but also cry, because he has reading disability, so he talked to another teacher about it, and that teacher said, you know what, the teacher telling the joke is right, reading is the only thing a person could do to change his life. Since then, he started to read everything he could find, just to change his own life. Then he said, "I'm the only child in my mom's four children, who lives like what she dreams."
He talked about the pressures, he had pressures just like what he had talked about, we have pressures every day, every time, every moment, the pressure might be going to a good college or university, or getting a better job and have higher salary, but no matter what, we need to beat them, and kick them in butt, and “You are not alone, we are here with you”. A 14-year old girl killed herself a day after jumping from the roof, don’t do that, because “You are not alone, we are here with you”.
今天在我学校有来自 Teen Truth 的非裔美国人演讲者 Brandon 的演讲。 他做了一个很棒的演讲。
演讲以一段视频开始（我找不到视频，所以我要总结一下）。 这是一个学生多年前制作的短片，它讲述了叙述者在去他的英语课时在学校走廊上听到的一段对话。 解说员听到一个白人女孩和一个亚裔女孩谈论一个正在擦窗户的黑人，然后他们称他为“黑鬼”，但在视频的最后，他说，那不是黑人，而是 擦窗户的残疾人，女孩们称他为“弱智”。
然后布兰登谈到了自己的生活，他的家庭很穷，他有三个兄弟姐妹。 他只有一条牛仔裤，却天天翻来覆去让人以为他有两条。 三年级时，在他的英语课上，他的老师问他将来想做什么，布兰登说他想帮助像他这样的人。 老师说，你不识字就不能帮助别人。 布兰登回答：“但我会说话。” 布兰登有阅读障碍，他做到了，他现在是一名演讲者，并发表了精彩的演讲。 布兰登上高中的时候，有一天，他的哥哥来了，说：“嘿，我杀了人。” 他说，他很难过，因为他和哥哥日日夜夜在一起，几乎分享一切，而现在，他哥哥将在监狱里度过余生。 同样是在高中，大三的时候，他的一位老师在走廊上遇到了他，并给他讲了一个笑话：“一个人唯一能改变他生活的事情就是读书”，布兰登说那一刻，所有的回忆都来了 回来，他又想笑又哭，因为他有阅读障碍，所以他和另一个老师谈起这件事，那个老师说，你知道吗，老师讲的笑话是对的，阅读是一个人唯一可以做的事情去改变他的生活。 从此，他开始阅读一切能找到的东西，只为改变自己的人生。 然后他说，“我是我妈妈四个孩子中唯一的孩子，她过着她梦想的生活。”
他谈到了压力，就像他所说的那样，他有压力，我们每天、每时每刻都有压力，压力可能是上一所好大学或大学，或者找到更好的工作和更高的薪水 ，但无论如何，我们都要打败他们，踢他们的屁股，“你不是一个人，我们在你身边”。 一个 14 岁的女孩在跳楼一天后自杀了，不要那样做，因为“你并不孤单，我们和你在一起”。（Google translate机翻，可能有错请见谅）
