Interlude: Dad Was Mad
I was the first, one of the first.
我是第一個,眾多人的第一個
My first day, a state trooper caught me, put me in the backseat of the car, and meeting the other black kids, was six of us.
想起那天,一個警察把我抓了起來,扔進了車後座,然後我看見了其他黑人孩子,還有六個
And seeing all of those parents, and also KKK members having signs and throwing cans at us, spitting at us.
我看見他們的父母,還有包括三K黨成員對著我們作怪、扔東西甚至吐口水
We lived in the threat of death every day. Every day.
我每天都活在對死亡的威脅裡,每天
So I was just lost in this vacuum between integration and segregation and, and racism.
所以我迷失了在種族與其他膚色隔離的真空中
That was my childhood.
這就是我的童年
I was angry for years... angry, very angry
讓我氣憤了多年,憤怒,非常生氣