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The story of the International African American Museum is a good 20 plus years old.
国际非裔美国人博物馆已经有二十多年的历史了。
You know, our former mayor of Charleston read a book that changed his perspective on the relationship between the African-American community in heritage and enslavement.
查尔斯顿前市长读过一本书，这本书改变了他对非裔美国人的文化遗产和奴役关系的看法。
Then the circle got even wider and folks decided that this period of slavery is neither the beginning nor the end of the African-American journey.
人们不再那么狭隘，他们认为，这段奴隶制时期既不是非裔美国人故事的开始，也不是结束。
The South, these are our roots, not just the roots of black folks. The south is the root of the nation and it's our foundation, and it's really important to understand that foundation.
南部是我们的根源，而不仅仅是黑人的根源。南部是民族之根，是我们的基础，了解这个基础非常重要。
It's not that we are uncovering things that we didn't already know, because these stories have been kept in whispers.
这并不是说我们正在揭露一些不知道的事情，因为这些故事一直被秘密封存。
What is really interesting is that pro or con, everyone is talking about these stories right now.
有趣的是，无论赞成还是反对，现在每个人都在谈论这些故事。
That's when monuments are made. That's when museums come forward.
这就是修建纪念碑和博物馆的意义。
We have to build these places where we can tell the story, save the story, steward the story.
我们必须修建这些，这样才可以讲述故事、保存故事、管理故事。
But one of the challenges has been the curation of the story: who's picking the stories, who's telling the stories, what stories do we believe should have grand institutions.
一大挑战是策划故事：由谁挑选故事，由谁讲述故事，哪些故事应该存放在宏伟的机构中。
And arguably, the African-American story has not been in the category. That was thought to need a grand institution.
可以说，非裔美国人的故事并不属于这一范畴。人们认为这需要一个宏伟的机构。
And while arguably, every American history museum should be talking about African-American history as this is a part of American history.
可以说，每个美国历史博物馆都应该讲述非裔美国人的历史，因为这是美国历史的一部分。
There is also room to have entire spaces dedicated to the story, so we can get into the nuances, so we can talk about it from different perspectives.
我们还有进步的空间，还可以将整个机构都用于讲述非裔美国人的故事，这样我们就可以深入了解细微差别，从不同角度讨论。
