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2024考研英语同源外刊:黑人补偿计划,是否是好的政策?

Since at least 1865. when Congress voted to set up the Freedmen’s Bureau, Americans have debated how and whether to compensate former slaves. In 2020. when Donald Trump had reawoken the left and George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man, was murdered by a policeman, the idea of reparations—paying money to the descendants of slaves—became almost mainstream. Some Democratic politicians, under pressure from activists and eager to be on the right side of history, agreed to set up commissions to study the idea. A few years later, those commissions are coming back with recommendations.

1865年，国会投票成立自由民局，在此之后，美国人就一直在讨论如何以及是否要赔偿昔日的奴隶。2020年，当唐纳德·特朗普唤醒了左翼，手无寸铁的非洲裔美国人乔治·弗洛伊德被一名警察杀害时，向奴隶的后代支付赔偿金想法几乎成为主流。一些民主党政客迫于活动人士的压力，急于站在历史的正确一边，同意成立委员会来研究这一想法。几年后，这些委员会又带着建议回来了。

Cash reparations for slavery are not popular. Only 30% of Americans support the policy. Most of those alive today played no role in Jim Crow; none can reasonably be blamed for slavery. Nor are black Americans the only disadvantaged group: try telling an unemployed Appalachian coalminer why finite tax dollars should go on reparations rather than, say, better schools or public health. Still, unpopular policies are sometimes right. Are cash reparations for African-Americans one such case?

对奴隶制的现金赔偿并不受欢迎。只有30%的美国人支持这项政策。今天活着的大多数人都没有参与种族隔离;任何人都不能因奴隶制而受到合理的指责。美国黑人也不是仅有的弱势群体：试着告诉一个失业的阿巴拉契亚煤矿工人，为什么有限的税收应该用于赔偿，而不是诸如用于改善学校或公共卫生之类的事。不过，不受欢迎的政策有时也是正确的。对非裔美国人的现金赔偿就是这样的一个案例吗?

Not long after slavery ended, the Freedmen’s Bureau collapsed. Few freedmen received compensation and many ended up working as sharecroppers for their former masters in something close to indentured servitude. Emancipation was followed by the creation of a two-tier version of citizenship that lasted for a century. Until the 1960s, many black Americans lived in fear of terrorism, were shut out of many neighbourhoods and could not vote.

奴隶制结束后不久，自由民局就垮台了。很少有自由人得到补偿，许多人成为他们前主人的佃农，类似于契约奴役。解放之后，双层公民身份的建立持续了一个世纪。直到20世纪60年代，许多美国黑人生活在对恐怖主义的恐惧中，被许多社区拒之门外，也不能投票。

 

单词

reparation/ˌrepəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/ n. 赔偿;修理;赔款;

scheme/skiːm/ n.(政府或其他组织的)计划，方案;

politics/ˈpɑːlətɪks/ n. 政治，政治活动(事务);

Congress/ˈkɑːŋɡrəs/ n. 国会，议会;

vote to 投票决定;

set up 建立，成立;

Freedmen’s Bureau 自由民局;

compensate/ˈkɑːmpenseɪt/ vt. 赔偿，偿付;弥补;

slave/sleɪv/ n. 奴隶;

reawaken /ˌriːəˈweɪkən/ vt. 重新唤起;

unarmed /ˌʌnˈɑːrmd/ adj. 没有武装的;无武器的;

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