No one should have U.S. citizenship

没读过《黑人的灵魂》这本的书的人
without reading The Souls of Black Folk.

不配有美国公民权
But since I don't rule the world, who cares?

但是我又没权利下这个规定是吧
Chapter 2 of Du Bois' masterpiece

杜·波依斯这本著作的第二章
is an essay he called "The Dawn of Freedom."

被他自己称作是"黎明前的黑暗"
It starts out ostensibly as an essay on,

它开头的时候看上去是篇散文
kind of a little history of The Freedmen's Bureau and a little take on Reconstruction,

是关于自由民管理局和重建的历史
but he turns it into much, more.

但是在后面他讲的更多更深入了
He turns it into a meditation--

他把它变成了一种冥想
not unlike Penn Warren will do in 1961--

这不是潘·沃伦在1961年做的那种冥想
but a mediation on the meaning and memory of slavery,

这是一个对奴隶制以及内战和重建的
the Civil War and Reconstruction.

意义和回忆的冥想