rooted in this Voting Rights Amendment,

都植根于这份《选举权修正案》
and then listen to this statement from the floor of Congress

然后再听听这份来自国会议员的宣言
by one of the most brilliant young black politicians

发言的是一位聪明年轻的黑人政客
who got himself elected among those hundreds who got elected,

他是上百个当选人之中
among the sixteen who got elected to Congress—

被选入国会的16人之一
John Roy Lynch, a former slave, self-taught, he educated himself;

约翰·罗伊·林奇奴隶自学成才
like Frederick Douglass there's mysteries about the brilliance of this guy

和弗雷德里克一样他的聪明一直是谜
But he's elected to Congress when he's twenty-six, from Mississippi,

但他26岁就从密西西比州入选国会
under Mississippi's Radical Reconstruction government,

那时密西西比还是激进派重建时期政府
so long as it lasted

直到它结束
He's still there in 1875, and on the floor of the Congress,

他一直干到1875年一直是国会议员
which was then, as you'll see in a moment,

然后等下大家会看到