前期回顾:
Someone has taken a young man,hung him in a tree.
有人抓了一个年轻人,把他吊死在树上。
Who would do something this hideous?
谁会做这么可怕的事?
Michael Donald was an innocent, good Samaritan, not a thug.
迈克尔·唐纳德是个无辜的好心人,不是暴徒。
The Mobile Police Department just didn't want to believe that Mobile would still have Klan in it, but they did.
莫比尔警♥察♥局只是不愿意相信,莫比尔还有三k党,但他们确实有。
That's why we kept marching and protesting,telling them we ain't taking this lying down.
这就是为什么,我们继续游♥行♥和抗♥议♥,要告诉他们,我们不会坐视不管。
[reporter] The Klansman turned ashen as the words guilty of capital murder sank in.
[新闻播报员] 当三k党成员意识到犯有谋杀罪时,他的脸都变白了。
It was the first time since at least the early 1900s that a white had been sentenced
这是至少自20世纪初以来,阿♥拉♥巴马州第一次
to death for a crime committed against a Black person in the State of Alabama.
有白人因对黑人犯下的罪行,而被判处死刑。
Beulah Mae Donald is grieving but also seeking justice for her child.
比尤拉.梅.唐纳德很悲伤,但也在为她的孩子寻求正义。
This is a Black woman,who has just lost her son to lynching,
这是一位黑人妇女,她的儿子刚刚死于“私刑”,
finds the strength to move forward in a civil suit against the Klan in Alabama.
她鼓起勇气,在阿♥拉♥巴马州对三k党提起民事诉讼。
The stakes could not be higher.
风险太大了。
[reporter] The body of a Black man has been found hanging from a tree in Mobile, Alabama.
[播音员] 一名黑人男子的尸体,被发现悬挂在阿♥拉♥巴马州莫比尔的一棵树上。
Lynching is a tool to control and oppress Black people.
“私刑”是一种控制和压♥迫♥黑人的工具。
Racialized violence is as old as the constitution.
种族暴♥力♥和宪法一样古老。
Klans are not running around with white sheets over their head, but it's still happening.
三k党并没有在头上盖着白布,到处跑,但这种事仍在发生。
Today, people are horrified at the police.
今天,人们对警♥察♥感到恐惧。
[crowd chanting]
[人群高喊]
It's the modern-day lynching.
这就是现代的私刑。
What are we going to do about it?
我们该怎么办呢?
We move forward with people deciding,I'm bold enough, and I'm gonna make it change.
我们让人们来决定,我无所畏惧,我要让它改变。
Beulah Mae Donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the United States.
比尤拉.梅.唐纳德对付了,美国最暴♥力♥的犯罪组织之一。
This is an incredible story of courage.
这是一个令人难以置信的勇气的故事。
人♥民♥对抗三K党 第四集
-[Tamika] No justice. -[crowd] No peace.
-[塔米卡]没有公正。 -[人群]就没有和平。
-[Tamika] No justice. -[crowd] No peace.
-[塔米卡]没有公正。 -[人群]就没有和平。
And if we don't get no justice,there ain't gonna be no damn peace.
如果我们得不到公正,就不会有该死的和平。
That's the bottom line.
这就是底线。
[crowds protesting]
[人群抗♥议♥声]
There is a level of mental illness that has been inflicted upon our society that can no longer stand.
我们的社会已经承受不住,精神疾病的折磨。
(塔米卡.莫洛蕾,“直到自♥由♥运♥动♥”联合发起人)
And it didn't just start today,but it is at a critical point.
它不是今天才开始的,今天只是处于一个临界点。
[group chanting]
[人群喊声]
When you get too far away from your history,then you're unable to understand the moment
当你远离你的历史时,你就无法理解,我们所处的时刻,
we're in and the direction that we can continue to go in if we don't stop.
以及如果我们不停下来,我们可以继续前进的方向。
[crowd singing protest song]
[人群唱着抗♥议♥歌♥曲]
Lynching became a tool used by both white citizenry as well as law enforcement,
私刑成为白人公民和执法部门用来,
(埃里克.阿姆斯特朗.邓巴,《非洲裔美国人历史》作者,鲁格斯大学教授)
to control and oppress Black people.
控制和压♥迫♥黑人的工具。
While there appeared to be progress,we had the reminders of racialized violence,
虽然看起来有进步,但种族暴♥力♥,
of murder, of lynching,and we see it most clearly with the murder of Michael Donald.
谋杀,私刑,在迈克尔·唐纳德被谋杀的事件中,表现得最为明显。
[slide projector clicking]
[点击幻灯片放映机]
My uncle, Thomas Figures and my father, Michael Figures,
我的叔叔,托马斯·菲格斯和我的父亲,迈克尔·菲格斯,
they worked incredibly, incredibly hard to ensure that justice was served in the criminal case.
他们工作非常、非常努力,以确保在刑事案件中伸张正义。
(阿♥拉♥巴马州参议员迈克尔.菲格斯,唐纳德家人请的律师)
They both knew that that was not going to be enough.
他们都知道那是不够的。
(肖马瑞.菲格斯,迈克尔.菲格斯的儿子)
The Klan was just as much of a threat as it was before the criminal case.
三k党在和刑事案件的发生,一样是个威胁。
And that's when my father teamed up with Morris Dees.
就在那时,我父亲和莫里斯·迪斯合作。
(莫里斯·迪斯,“南方穷♥人♥法律帮助中心”联合创始人)
After law school, in 1960, when I got to practicing law, there were a lot of violent acts that we saw in the United States.
从法学院毕业后,在1960年,当我开始做律师时,
there were a lot of violent acts that we saw in the United States.
我们在美国,看到了很多暴♥力♥行为。
The beating of the Freedom Riders in Birmingham,
伯明翰自♥由♥乘车者被殴打,
the violent deaths around Mississippi and Georgia and Alabama, and other places.
密西西比、佐治亚、阿♥拉♥巴马等地发生暴♥力♥死亡事件。
The killing of Viola Luizzo,committed by what people suspected were Klan members,
杀害维奥拉·路易佐,凶手被怀疑是三k党成员,
but very few of them were actually apprehended.
但很少有人被逮捕。
I thought to myself, if I ever get an opportunity to get on the other side of
我对自己说,如果我有机会站在另一边
fighting those that did it,I'd do it in a minute.
与那些做了这件事的人斗争,我会立即行动。
[urgent music]
[紧张的音乐声]
I decided I'd go down to Mobile and watch Michael Donald's criminal trial.
我决定去莫比尔旁听迈克尔·唐纳德的刑事审判。
I wanted to know everything I could.
我想知道,我能知道的一切。
Following the criminal trial,my father, Michael Figures and Morris Dees
在刑事审判之后,我父亲、迈克尔·图格斯和莫里斯·迪斯
(阿♥拉♥巴马州参议员迈克尔.菲格斯,唐纳德家人请的律师)
teamed up to bring a $10 million civil suit against the Klan.
联手对三k党提出了,1000万美元的民事诉讼。
Morris Dees, he came and he talked to my mother.
莫里斯·迪斯,他来找我妈妈谈了谈。
(塞西莉亚.佩里,迈克尔.唐纳德的姐姐)
He says, "I'm gonna get everything that you want for you, Mrs. Donald,
他说:“我会得到你想要的一切,唐纳德夫人,
because you have been good through this.I don't think I could go through this."
因为你一直都很好。我想如果是我,我就熬不过去了。”
He told her that.
他跟她说了这些。
Morris Dees and Senator Michael Figures
莫里斯·迪斯和参议员迈克尔·菲格斯
went after the organization, rather than individuals.
针对的是该组织,而不是个人。
And a lot of people questioned whether he was gonna be successful.
很多人♥质♥疑他,是否会成功。
(山姆.琼斯,2005年-2013年任莫比尔镇镇长)
The Michael Donald civil case was the first time that a jury had a chance to rule on the acts of a hate group organization
迈克尔·唐纳德民事案件,是陪审团第一次有机会,对一个仇恨组织
and its members,for doing a serious, horrible lynching.
及其成员的行为,做出裁决,因为他们实施了,严重而可怕的私刑。
If we could win this case,we could wipe out all of the groups.
如果我们赢了这场官司,我们就能消灭所有的“帮派”。
Beulah Mae Donald,
比尤拉.梅.唐纳德,
having endured the emotional rigors of a criminal trial, knew that she wasn't done.
在经历了刑事审判的严酷情绪考验后,她知道自己还没有结束。
[slide projector clicking]
[点击幻灯片放映机]
My mother, she said, "The worst has already been done.My child is gone.
我母亲,她说,“悲剧已经发生了。我的孩子已经走了。
I want to make them pay for what they've done to my child."
我要让他们,为他们对我孩子的所作所为,付出代价。”
It became a national case.
这成了一个全国性的案例。
[newsreader] The Donald family felt others were involved,and filed a civil suit against the United Klan.
[新闻播报员]唐纳德一家认为其他人也参与其中,并对三k党提起了民事诉讼。
The aim was to dismantle whatever financial base the group has,
其目的是摧毁该组织的任何经济基础,
and to establish a precedent that can be used by other victims of Klan violence.
并树立一个,可供其他被三k党暴♥力♥受伤害者,能借鉴使用的先例。
We filed a civil suit against a group of named Klan individuals.
我们对三k党成员团体,提起了民事诉讼。
Bennie Hays chose Tiger Knowles and Henry Hays to do this deed.
本尼·海耶斯,选择泰格·诺尔斯和亨利·海耶斯,来做这件事。
Got them a gun, got them a rope,to go out
给他们一把枪,一根绳子,让他们出去
and find a Black person to kill,just any Black person.
找个黑人杀掉,任何一个黑人都行。
We also filed a civil suit against Robert Shelton
我们还对罗伯特·谢尔顿提起了民事诉讼
when he was the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America.
当时他还是美国三k党“帝国巫师”。
My take on Robert Shelton was that he was very smart.
我对罗伯特·谢尔顿的印象是,他非常聪明。
You could tell by the way he organized,the way he dressed.
你可以从他做事的方式,他的穿着打扮看的出来。
He wore Klan uniforms and paraphernalia around Klan gatherings and stuff,
他穿着三k党的制♥服♥和装备参加三k党的集♥会♥,
but not in the public,he was a coat and tie kind of guy,and he set up an organization that was pretty sophisticated.
但不在公共场合,他是那种穿西装打领带的人,他建立了一个相当精密的组织。
(上写着:加入并支持美国三K党联盟有限公♥司♥,在这里承接着,过去、今天及永远)
Shelton's chapters were responsible for really horrific violence.
谢尔顿的爪牙,要为可怕的暴♥力♥负责。
Shelton's people were organized and were vicious.
谢尔顿的人组织性很强,也很恶毒。
A number of them had military training,and that made them a much more dangerous threat.
他们中的一些人受过军事训练,这使他们成为更危险的威胁。
(兰德尔.威廉姆斯,前南方穷♥人♥法律援助中心三K党调查员领导人)
Over the last several months,members of the Aryan Nations Church and other neo-Nazi groups
在过去的几个月里,雅利安民族教会,和其他新纳粹组织的成员
have been connected to a whole series of very violent events.
与一系列非常暴♥力♥的事件有关。
The United Klans of America, the country's oldest group of Ku Klux Klansmen, is threatened with financial ruin.
美国历史最悠久的三家族组织——美国三k党联盟面临着财政破产的威胁。
So they started calling late into the night,in the wee hours of the morning to say, you know,
所以他们开始打电♥话♥到深夜,在凌晨说,这你能想象的到,
(阿♥拉♥巴马州参议员薇薇安.菲格斯,迈克尔.菲格斯的遗孀)
"We're gonna come and get you."
“我们会来找你算账的。”
They just kept calling, kept calling, kept calling.
他们一直在打电♥话♥,一直在打电♥话♥,打骚扰电♥话♥。
They got fired up because we sued them.
他们很生气,因为我们起诉了他们。
(丹尼.韦尔奇,前南方穷♥人♥法律援助中心首席三K党调查员)
[ominous music]
[不祥的音乐]
In 1983,the Klan burned our building in Montgomery, Alabama.
1983年,三k党烧毁了,我们在阿♥拉♥巴马州蒙哥马利的大楼。
Not only had our office been firebombed in the night by a Klan group,
不仅我们的办公室在夜里,遭到三k党组织的燃♥烧♥弹♥袭击,
Morris lived, at that time, on a farm.
莫里斯那时,住在一个农场里。
They came to my house trying to track me down and they found that I had security guards out there.
他们跟踪到我家,来找我,发现外面有保安。
They discovered, on his property,camouflaged Klan people,
他们发现,在他家的领地上,有伪装的三k党成员,
with high-powered assault rifles,trying to sneak up to Morris's house.
拿着威力强大的突击步♥枪♥,试图偷偷溜进莫里斯的房♥子。
[reporter] The neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan are closely allied.
[播音员] 新纳粹分子和三k党是紧密结盟的。
Both groups claim they have infiltrated military reserve units
这两个组织都声称,他们已经渗透进了军事预备役部队,
and can get their hands on a variety of sophisticated weapons.
能够得到各种尖端武器。
They had a hit list of people they wanted to kill.
他们有一份想杀的人名单。
The hit list assigns value to targets.
暗♥杀♥名单赋予目标悬赏。
They included everything from killing a random person of color,
他们包括了,从杀死一个随机的有色人种,
(凯瑟琳.贝鲁,历史学家及《把战火烧到家园》的作者)
all the way up to the assassination of major targets that they would like addressed.
一直到暗♥杀♥掉,他们想要解决的主要目标。
The FBI showed me a copy. I was on top of that list.
联邦调查局给我看了一份复印件。我是名单上的第一名。
One of the guys that they wanted to kill was Alan Berg,Denver radio talk show host,
他们想杀的人之一是艾伦·伯格,他是丹佛电台脱口秀主持人,
because he had a radio program, he's Jewish,and he was condemning the neo-Nazis.
因为他有一个电台谈话节目,他是犹太人,他谴责新纳粹分子。
And they mowed him down, killed him, shot him.
他们把他撞倒,杀了他,开枪打死了他。
That got our attention in a-- in a big way, I can assure you.
这在很大程度上,引起了我们的注意,我可以向你保证。
Morris Dees told my mom, "I have gotten death threats.
莫里斯·迪斯告诉我妈妈,“我收到了死亡威胁。
Are you prepared for this?"
你准备好了,迎战这些吗?”
She said, "I don't care. I just want the world to know "what has happened to my son."
她说:“我不在乎。我只想让全世界知道"我儿子发生了什么事"
Beulah Mae Donald versus United Klans of America.
比尤拉·梅·唐纳德对美国三k党。
She put her name, one person, one individual, one mother,against the Klan.
她用她的名字,一个人,一个个体,一个母亲,来反对三k党。
(康奈尔.威廉.布鲁克斯,前全国有色人种协进会主席,哈佛大学肯尼迪政♥治♥学院教授)
She knew that the Klan had no problems killing children,
她知道,三k党毫不犹豫就杀了孩子们,
why would they refrain from killing an elderly Black woman?
为什么他们不杀一个,年长的黑人妇女呢?