My first thought when I heard about the shooting of Alton Sterling last Tuesday was: OK, here we are again.
上周二，当我听说Alton Sterling枪击案时，我的第一反应是：好吧，又发生了！
Then after reading about the killing of Philando Castile the next day, and the shooting of police at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas the day after, the domino effect of violence left me paralyzed.
第二天，我又读到了Philando Castile被杀案的新闻；第三天，达拉斯“黑人的命也是命”游行活动中发生警察被枪杀事件，暴力事件就像多米诺骨牌一样接连不断的侵袭，我彻底被惊呆了。
I felt in my heart it was time to put something out there and call on my fellow athletes to band together. I had to say something. I just didn't know what.
我的内心告诉我是时候要有所行动并把运动员同胞们团结起来。我必须要说点什么。只是不知该如何表达。
Every time something like this happens, people rush online to Twitter and Instagram to share their opinions. Everybody says the same thing but we never get anywhere.
每次类似事件发生时，大家都争先恐后上网到Twitter和Instagram等处发表自己的看法。每个人都说着同样的话，但形势没有丝毫的改变。
At first I wasn't going to post anything because I wanted to get all the information first. I slept on it overnight and woke up in the middle of the morning to a nagging voice: What am I going to say? I didn't want it to be the same things as everybody else: #AltonSterling, #PhilandoCastile, #DallasPoliceShooting.
一开始，我并不想发表什么，因为我想先详细了解事情的始末。夜里我想着最近种种，辗转反侧，无法安睡。凌晨我被脑海中一个声音惊醒：我不想跟其他人一样做像 #AltonSterling, #PhilandoCastile, #DallasPoliceShooting那样没有意义的事情。
When I chose to speak out, it was a matter of being honest, speaking from the heart about what's going on and calling on my colleagues to step up, get out there and put pressure on the people in charge to not let this happen anymore. No more hashtags.
当我选择大声说出自己的心声，我是诚恳的，发自内心的，面对现在的这些暴力，我号召我的同事们都站出来，向当权者施压，让暴力不再发生。不再靠标语。
Do athletes have a responsibility to stand up? I don't want to put it all on athletes. I believe all people need to rise up and make their voices heard.
运动员有义务站出来吗？我不想把责任都压在运动员身上。我认为所有人都应该站出来，发出自己的心声。
But I do think that athletes have the biggest reach, especially now with social media and all the people that follow us.
但我觉得运动员在此事上确实具有先天优势，特别是大家都在用社交媒体平台，运动员都有大量粉丝关注。
We have one of the biggest platforms to speak out, one where people pay attention to what we have to say, whether it's everyday civilians or those in positions of power. We have that influence. It's just a matter of if we want to use it or not.
我们拥有最广阔的平台来发声，你的心声会受到大家的关注，不管你是平头百姓还是权贵之士。我们的影响力巨大。就看你愿不愿使用这个平台。
Everybody uses it for different reasons. But at a time like this, you have to put aside the politics of business and whether a sponsor or somebody from a company that you represent is going to call you about it. If you're a human being, this affects everybody.
每个人玩社交媒体出于不同的目的，但在这样的时刻，你必须摒弃政治因素，不要受到别人的干扰。这事关我们所有人。
Whether you're the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or you're a mailman or you're homeless, this affects you. No athlete should think: If I speak up, I'm going to lose an endorsement or a sponsorship.
不管你是世界500强的CEO，或是邮递员，还是流浪汉，你都身在其中。你不要担心我发声了我就会掉粉，赞助商不鸟我了之类的。

Because if that's the case then you have to question the kind of people that you're doing business with and ask yourself where their heads and morals are at.
如果你的担心发生，你就得好好想想你到底都在和什么样的人在合作，他们的良心在哪里。
So what next? I don't have the answer. Nobody does. But what we can do is start bring a continuous awareness and keep this conversation going.
接下来呢？我不知道答案。没人知道。我们能做得是持续的评论，不要让话题中断，变成三分钟热度。
We can't keep riding on this merry-go-round where tragedy happens, it's all over TV and social media, everybody talks about it, then in three and four days it's over with.
以往总是悲剧发生后，电视，社交媒体都在报道，大家都在议论，三四天后，就寂静无声了。
In three weeks I'll travel to Rio with the United States' Olympic team to perform on a global stage. I haven't spoken with my team-mates yet about the opportunity before us and how we can take advantage of it, because at the end of the day I want it to be genuine.
三星期后，我会随美国奥运代表队出征里约，登上世界舞台。这对我们发声（抗议暴力）是个绝佳机会，但我还没跟我的队友们谈论此事。因为我希望做这一切是真诚的。
If you don't feel like you want to make a statement or make a stand, then don't do it. You shouldn't feel forced to do it. You have to want to do that.
如果你不想发表声明，表明立场，那就别去做。没人能强迫你。这种事必须是你自己真心实意想去做才行。
For me, I do feel like this is a platform where we should – we as athletes, we as Americans – use it for something. Whether we make a statement out there or send a message, we can show the world that we're united.
对于我来说，我真得觉得这是个好机会我们——作为 运动员，以及作为美国公民——去做些事情。不管是发表声明还是公开信，我们应该告诉世界我们团结一致。
Whatever way we want to do it, this is a chance to do something meaningful before an audience of billions. I don't know what that something is yet, but we still have time to figure it out.
不管选择什么样的方式，这是我们在亿万观众面前做些有意义的事情的机会。我暂时不知道到底要做些什么，但我们会弄清楚的。
But how can we make a change back home? You can start off small. If everybody just focuses on their own community, then we're making progress. We can't try to solve all the issues at once. We've just got to zero in on our own individual communities and once we build that up and that becomes stronger, then I think everything will settle down and be cool again.
但在我们自己的国家是否要先开始行动？你可以从小事做起。先从我们的社区做起，我们一定会取得进展。我们肯定一次解决不了所有问题。我们先从自己的社区做起，一步步发展壮大，最终所有事情都能慢慢解决。
There needs to be a mutual respect from both sides: between the police officers and the people in the streets. We have to reintroduce that respect factor into our local communities because there's no respect from either side anymore.
我认为警察和市民应相互尊重。在我们的社区，必须重新提倡尊重。因为现在双方都毫无尊重可言。
We all know our history, especially when it comes to sports and activism. We know Ali. We know Jim Brown. We know Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. But over the years as athletes started making more money, they started thinking: I don't want people to talk bad about me for talking politics. But this is not really about politics. There's nothing political about taking a stand and speaking on what you believe in.
我们都知道我们的历史，特别是那些体育届的先辈。我们知道阿里，我们知道吉姆-布朗，我们知道卡里姆-阿布杜尔-贾巴尔。但这些年来，运动员赚的钱越来越多，他们想：我不愿因为评论政治而遭到非议。但这其实于政治无关。表明自己的立场并谈论你所信仰的事情，这于政治无关。
The teams and the support systems around athletes urge them to stay away from politics, stay away from religion, stay away from this, stay away from that. But at certain times you've just got to put all of that aside and be a human being. That time is now.
球队和相关支持体系都促使运动员远离政治，远离宗教，远离这些，远离那些。但有时你要把那些都放一边，做一个纯粹的人。现在这个时候到了。

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