陌上美国美国这段时间，两个主要大党分别在召开全国党代表大会(National Convention)，正式提名本次大选年参选的候选人，代表自己党去竞争新一任的美国总统。
上周民主党DNC大会在威斯康辛州紧锣密鼓地结束，这周，共和党选择北卡州开启了RNC大会。形式上大部采用的是现场演讲，而不是提前录制。昨天晚上十多位演讲嘉宾亮相，其中有家庭主妇、骨癌幸存者、佛州枪击案一位遇难高中生的父亲、川普大儿子和其拉丁裔移民女友、曾经是古巴难民的佛州商人、印度裔前南卡州长及前美国驻联合国大使，等等。从普通老百姓到官员政要到总统家人，不一而足。
在这些出场的演讲者中，有一位格外引人注目。那就是南卡州的国会参议员蒂姆·斯科特(Tim Scott)。他的讲话既没有过多地攻击对手党的总统候选人拜登(Biden)，也没有空泛地谄媚川普，而多是从具体的政策议题分析入手就事论事。内容上不是空谈“让美国重新伟大(MAGA)”，而是从他家庭一个世纪内从棉花地的奴役苦工到华盛顿的国会议员的经历证明，美国现在比以前好。这番演讲结束，小编周围好几位对本次大选投票兴趣黯然的朋友感慨，“斯科特以后去选总统吧。我投他!”
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以下是南卡州国会参议员蒂姆·斯科特在2020年共和党全国代表大会上的演讲全文翻译及英文原文。
所有收听观看和参与这个政治过程的朋友们，愿上帝保佑你们。今夜不是我曾经预想到的，但是我们的国家正在经历许多我们没有想到的事情。从COVID-19疫情全球大流行到乔治·弗洛伊德事件(George Floyd，点击前文)和布伦娜·泰勒(Breonna Taylor，一名被警察枪杀的紧急医护服务人员，非裔）的去世，2020年正在以几十年来罕见的方式考验着我们的国家。但是，不管面临的挑战是什么，美国人每四年一次，聚在一起投票。分享使我们的国家变得强大的故事，并从中总结教训，让我们的孩子和孙辈们从中扬长避短，把生活建设得更加美好。虽然这次选举较量是在唐纳德·川普和乔·拜登之间进行，但这远不是只关于川普和拜登的事情。这是关于美国的（建国）承诺。这是关于你和我……我们的挑战与伤痛，希望与梦想。这是关于我们在面对诸如警察改革之类关键问题时的应对态度和解决方式……当民主党人称我们的工作为敷衍性努力，并在谈判中不满地走出会议室时，他们更执着于问题而不是解决方案。我们是需要一个为成功提供培育土壤的社会，还是一种可以因为略微的不同意就取消一切的文化（点击：一文读懂“取消文化”）？我知道我的立场，因为你知道，我活在我母亲的美国梦中。我7岁那年，父母离婚了。我们住到了祖父家的两居室的房子里……我，我的妈妈和我的兄弟共享一个只有一张床的房间。为了养家糊口，我妈妈每天工作16个小时。她知道，如果我们能找到机会（第二天的主题将是，美国是机会之地），那么更好的事情将会发生。我曾经以为我必须打好橄榄球才能生活成功......而我懈怠了学习功课。我9年级的时候（相当于国内高一）四门课不及格......分别是西班牙语，英语，世界地理和公民教育课。相信我，在参议院任职7年后，我知道自己可不是国会中唯一公民教育课也挂科的人。但是，即使我九年级时候挂科，我的母亲还是说：“如果你的目标是月球，即使你错过了，你也将到达星海之中。”即使在我不信任自己的时候，她也从未对我失去信心。由于她的鼓励，我上了暑期学校，补上了功课赶上了班。第二年，我遇到了给我人生带来启蒙的人约翰·莫尼兹(John Moniz)，他是美式连锁餐饮店小鸡菲拉餐馆(Chick-fil-A)的一名前台服务员。约翰发掘了我身上连我自己也没有注意到的品质，并开始教我许多宝贵的人生经验。比如，获得一份工作固然是件好事，但创造工作机会会更好。有收入可以改变自己的生活方式，但是创造财富利润可以改变自己的社区！他为机会埋下了种子，授人以渔——这也是我跟总统正在共同努力的一项举措，为陷入困境的贫困社区带来超过750亿美元的私营部门投资。我将自己过去的人生教训铭记在心……从自己的生活经历中总结经验。我意识到，高质量的教育是孕育美国奇迹的最重要的源泉。这就是为什么我一直为学校教育而奋斗，确保每个社区中的每个孩子都能接受高质量的教育。当父母有选择权时，他们的孩子才有更大的机会。总统为此与我并肩作战。后来，我开始了自己的成功私营生意。这就是为什么我知道鼓励增长的税法对我们至关重要。实际上，在2017年降低了税率之后（点击前文），我们看到了国库收入的增加。放心，民主党人不希望您知道这一点！在开始我的事业并拥有了地方政府工作经历后，我于2010年竞选国会众议员。该选区位于南卡罗来纳州的查尔斯顿，南北战争开始的地方。我的竞争对手是传奇参议员斯特罗姆·瑟蒙德(Strom Thurmond)的儿子。您可能会问：一个单亲穷人家庭的黑人孩子，如何在共和党选民占多数的初选中，与小瑟蒙德竞争，并赢得选举？由于城市中心的演变，这个选区是一个白人选民人口压倒性的地区。但是选民们是根据我的能力和政策，而不是我的肤色来评判我。我们生活在一个只希望您相信坏消息的世界……种族，经济和文化两极分化的新闻满天飞。事实是，我们国家的轨迹总是向着公平的方向螺旋上升。我们还没有完全成为我们想要的理想之地......但是感谢上帝，我们比从前更好！我们一直在努力做得更好......当我们遇到挫折时，我们会爬起来重试。我们不接受取消文化（点击前文），也没有激进地——其实是毫无根据地——相信今天的情况比1860或1960年代更糟。我们需要改进，但是我相信国家的美好信念和许诺，即对所有人无论男女，被神平等地创造的承诺。如果您今晚正在收看这个电视转播，我打赌您也在这样做。在过去的四年中，我们在实现这一承诺方面取得了巨大进展。川普总统建立了有史以来最具包容性的经济。COVID-19之前，本届政府创造了700万个新的工作，其中三分之二雇用的是女性，非裔和西裔。解决世代贫困的首个重大努力——创立经济开发区。我们通过减税，将老百姓辛苦赚来的收入重新投入人民的腰包，尤其是对于像我成长的类似单亲家庭——将单亲母亲的税赋平均削减了70％。川普总统支持对单亲妈妈和工薪家庭的减税措施，并将这些政策签署为法律……我们国家的情况会更好。所以，我在此要问您，美国人民，不要光看候选人说什么，更应该看他们做成了哪些事情。这次选举关系您的未来，至关重要的是要全面了解川普和拜登的记录。拜登说，如果一个黑人不投票支持他，那他并不是真正的黑人。1994年，拜登领导通过了一项犯罪法案，该法案将数百万非裔美国人关进了监狱。川普总统的刑事司法改革法修正了拜登造成的许多错误，并使我们的体系对所有美国人而言更加公平。拜登没能成功扶持我们国家历史悠久的黑人大学(Historically black colleges and universities, HBCU)……在确保我们的年轻人能够接受优质高等教育的斗争中，他们应当责无旁贷。再次，为清理拜登留下的混乱局面，川普总统签署了法律，为传统黑人大学提供了历史性的高额资金，并且对此立法，这是有史以来第一次为他们提供永久性的资助！而现在，拜登关注着您的钱包.....除非您是蓝州的百万富翁。我是认真的——这是他们解决大流行病的方法之一。他们想要更多的钱，您可以自掏腰包，去帮助曼哈顿的精英和好莱坞大亨们减税。但是，共和党人通过了川普总统影响一代人的税制改革法案，该法案降低了单亲妈妈、在职家庭和有需要的人的税务负担。因此，当谈到拜登所说的事情时，更要看他的行为和他的政策。看看他在华盛顿47年里，已经做过的和没有做的事情。女士们，先生们，人们并不总是能看到这些失败，因为他们认为我们正在就一个问题的两方面进行自说自话的政策辩论。我们关注重点是具体的政策——而拜登的激进党羽试图永久改变做美国人的意义。没错，拜登和竞选搭档哈瑞斯（前文：哈瑞斯其人其事）想要一场文化变革，带来一个根本上完全不同的美国。如果我们让他们成功，他们将把我们国家变成社会主义乌托邦。而历史告诉我们，这个道路只会导致苦难和灾祸，特别是对于那些希望改变人生的勤劳上进的人们。相反，我们必须专注于美国的（建国）承诺。我知道这是什么一种旅程。明天是我祖父99岁的生日。在他成长过程中，他经历过见到白人来，必须过马路让路的日子。他在三年级时候被迫辍学采摘棉花，备受羞辱，并且从此再未有机会上学识字。然而，他活着看到他的孙子，成为第一个竞选成功，入驻国会参众两院既做过众议员又成为参议员的非洲裔美国人。我们一家人一个世纪内从棉花地的奴役苦工到华盛顿的国会参议员。这就是为什么我相信美国的下一个世纪可以比上一个世纪更好。这个国家有成千上万的家庭，像我的家庭一样，充满了寻求实现美国梦的潜力。今晚我在这里告诉您，支持共和党将使您最大程度地实现这一梦想。https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6NWDEE2Uj8
演讲英文全文:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/24/politics/tim-scott-rnc-speech/index.html
To all of you tuning in and participating in the political process, God bless you.This isn't how I pictured tonight, but our country is experiencing something none of us envisioned.From a global pandemic, to the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, 2020 has tested our nation in ways we haven't seen for decades.But regardless of the challenges presented to us...every four years...Americans come together to vote...To share stories of what makes our nation strong, and the lessons we have learned that can strengthen it further for our children and grandchildren.Because while this election is between Donald Trump and Joe Biden...it is not solely about Donald Trump and Joe Biden.It's about the promise of America. It's about you and me...our challenges and heartbreaks, hopes and dreams.It's about how we respond when tackling critical issues like police reform...when Democrats called our work a token effort, and walked out of the room during negotiations because they wanted the ISSUE more than they wanted a solution.Do we want a society that breeds success, or a culture that cancels everything it even slightly disagrees with?I know where I stand, because you see, I am living my mother's American Dream.My parents divorced when I was 7 years old. We lived in a two bedroom house with my grandparents...me, my mom and my brother sharing a room and a bed. My mom worked 16 hours a day to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads.She knew that if we could find the opportunity, bigger things would come.I thought I had to use football to succeed in life...and my focus on academics faded away. I failed my freshman year of high school -- four subjects...Spanish, English, world geography, and civics.Trust me, after spending 7 years in the Senate, I know I'm not the only one in Congress who failed civics.But even while I was failing the 9th grade... my mother always said, "when you shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you will be among the stars." She never lost faith in me, even when I lost faith in myself. Because of her encouragement, I went to summer school and caught up.The next year I met my mentor, John Moniz...a Chick Fil-a operator. John saw something in me that I could not see in myself, and started teaching me valuable lessons in life...Like, having a job was a good thing, but creating jobs would be better. That having an income could change my lifestyle, but creating a profit could change my community!He planted the seeds of what would become Opportunity Zones -- this initiative the President and I worked together on is bringing over 75 billion dollars of private sector investment into distressed communities.I took those lessons to heart...and started putting the pieces of my life together. I realized a quality education is the closest thing we have to magic in America.That's why I fight to this day for school choice...to make sure every child, in every neighborhood has a quality education.I don't care if it's a public, private, charter, virtual or home school.When a parent has a choice, their kid has a better chance. And the President has fought alongside me on that.Later in life, I started my own successful small business. That's why I know it is critical for us to have a tax code that encourages growth.We actually saw revenues to the Treasury increase after we lowered taxes in 2017. Rest assured, Democrats do not want you to know that!After starting my business and spending time in local government, I ran for Congress in 2010. The district is based in Charleston, South Carolina...where the Civil War started...against a son of our legendary Senator, Strom Thurmond.You may be asking yourself how does a poor black kid...from a single parent household...run and win a race in a crowded Republican primary against a Thurmond?Because of the evolution of the heart, in an overwhelmingly white district... the voters judged me on the content of my character, not the color of my skin.We live in a world that only wants you to believe in the bad news... racially, economically and culturally-polarizing news.The truth is, our nation's arc always bends back towards fairness. We are not fully where we want to be...but thank God we are not where we used to be!We are always striving to be better...When we stumble, and we will, we pick ourselves back up and try again.We don't give into cancel-culture, or the radical -- and factually baseless -- belief that things are worse today than in the 1860s or the 1960s.We have work to do...but I believe in the goodness of America...the promise that all men, and all women are created equal.And if you're watching tonight, I'm betting you do, too.Over the past four years, we have made tremendous progress towards that promise.President Trump built the most inclusive economy ever. 7 million jobs created pre-COVID-19, two thirds of which went to women, African-Americans and Hispanics.The first new, major effort to tackle poverty in a generation -- Opportunity Zones. We put hard earned tax dollars back in people's pockets by cutting their taxes, especially for single parent households like the one I grew up in - cutting single mother's taxes 70% on average.President Trump supported these tax cuts for those single moms, and other working families, and signed these policies into law...and our nation is better off for it.So, I'm going to ask you...the American people...not to look simply at what the candidates say...but to look back at what they've done.This election is about your future, and it's critical to paint a full picture of the records of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.Joe Biden said if a black man didn't vote for him, he wasn't truly black.Joe Biden said black people are a monolithic community.Joe Biden said poor kids can be just as smart as white kids.And while his words are one thing, his actions take it to a whole new level.In 1994, Biden led the charge on a crime bill that put millions of black Americans behind bars...President Trump's criminal justice reform law fixed many of the disparities Biden created and made our system more fair and just for all Americans.Joe Biden failed our nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities... heaping blame on them as they fought to ensure our young folks had access to higher education.Once again, to clean up Joe Biden's mess, President Trump signed into law historically high funding for HBCUs, as well as a bill to give them permanent funding for the first time ever!And now, Joe Biden wants to come for your pocketbooks.... Unless you're a blue state millionaire.I'm serious -- that's one of their solutions for the pandemic. They want more money you're your pocket...going to help Manhattan elites and Hollywood moguls get a tax break.Republicans, however, passed President Trump's once-in-a-generation tax reform bill that lowered taxes for single moms, working families and those in need.So, when it comes to what Joe Biden says he'll do...Look at his actions. Look at his policies. Look at what he already did and did not do while he's been in Washington for 47 years.Ladies and gentlemen, people don't always see those failures, because they think we're having a policy debate on two sides of an issue.That is not what is happening.Our side is working on policy -- while Joe Biden's radical Democrats are trying to permanently transform what it means to be an American.Make no mistake: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want a cultural revolution. A fundamentally different America.If we let them...they will turn our country into a socialist utopia...and history has taught us that path only leads to pain and misery, especially for hard-working people hoping to rise.Instead, we must focus on the promise of the American journey. I know that journey well.My grandfather's 99th birthday would have been tomorrow. Growing up, he had to cross the street if a white person was coming. He suffered the indignity of being forced out of school as a third grader to pick cotton, and never learned to read or write.Yet, he lived to see his grandson become the first African American to be elected to both the United States House and Senate.Our family went from Cotton to Congress in one lifetime. And that's why I believe the next American century can be better than the last.There are millions of families like mine across this nation...full of potential seeking to live the American Dream.And I'm here tonight to tell you that supporting the Republican ticket gives you the best chance of making that dream a reality.God Bless you, and may God continue to bless the United States of America.
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