Your generation is uniquely poised for success unlike
你们这一代人的成功机会将是最大的
Any generation of African Americans that came before it
比以往任何一代非裔美国人都大
But that doesn't mean we don't have work
但这不意味着我们没事可做了
Because if we're honest with ourselves, we know that too few of our brothers
因为说实话 我们很多兄弟都没有
Have the opportunities that you've had here at Morehouse
你们莫尔豪斯人所拥有的这些机会
In troubled neighborhoods all across this country
国内还存在很多问题社区
Many of them heavily African American
很多这样的社区中都有很多非裔美国人
Too few of our citizens have role models to guide them
我们的公民 很多人都没有楷模指引他们
Communities just a couple miles from my house in Chicago
离我在芝加哥的家只有几英里的社区
Communities just a couple miles from here
离这里只有几英里的社区
They're places where jobs are still too scarce and wages are still too low
这些地方工作机会仍然很少 而且薪水很低
Where schools are underfunded and violence is pervasive
学校条件很差 且暴力无处不在
Where too many of our young men spend their youth not behind a desk in a classroom
我们的很多年轻人 青春都没有挥洒在课桌前
But hanging out on the streets
而是在街头四处游荡
Or brooding behind a jail cell
或是身陷囹圄 反思罪行
My job, as president, is to advocate for policies that
作为总统 我的工作是主张一些政策
Generate more opportunity for everybody
为每个人提供更多机会
Policies that strengthen the middle class
这些政策将巩固中产阶级利益
And give more people the chance to climb their way into the middle class
并让更多人有机会步入中产阶级
Policies that create more good jobs and reduce poverty
这些政策将提供更多好的就业岗位 减少贫穷
And educate more children, and give more families the security of health care
让更多孩子接受教育 让更多家庭具有医疗保障
And protect more of our children from the horrors of gun violence
并保护更多的孩子不受枪械暴力的威胁
That's my job
这就是我的工作
Those are matters of public policy
这些是公共政策事务
And it is important for all of us
这对我们所有人都很重要
