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2011年6月22日，派特裏克.崔西醫生在洛杉磯加德納小學的亮名儀式上作了一個深刻而感人的演講。（邁克爾.傑克遜曾上過這個小學，88年他向該小學捐贈了一個體育館，他的名字被刻在體育館上，在他被誣陷的時期，該小學迫於壓力，遮蓋了他的名字。去年，在粉絲們的努力下，邁克爾的名字終於被重新亮出。昨天，舉行了正式的亮名儀式。）
53年前，印第安那州一個小鎮上，誕生了一個黑人小男孩。那是一個不同的時代，那個時代中，非洲裔美國人的人權運動正努力從白種美國人的壓迫下獲得自由。
那也是戰後新一代美國人長大後每個人的時代，他們的父輩從殘暴的奧斯維辛和布痕瓦爾德集中營解救了囚徒，那個時代的歐洲人對美國人充滿了深深的、持久的感激。
正如一個猶太大屠殺的倖存者——Elie Wiesel在1999年在白宮一個重要集會演講中所說：“感激定義了人類身上的人性。”
今天，我們應該對一個美國黑人小男孩懷著感激，他的名字是邁克爾.傑克遜，我有幸稱他為我的朋友，一位堅持保護世界上的孩子、貧民、以及疾病和不公受害者的人。
邁克爾對他所見的世界上受苦受難的人深深擔憂，他更擔憂那些對此冷漠的人。我們第一次見面時他對我說的第一句話是：
“非常感謝你對非洲人民的幫助。”毫無裝腔作勢，毫無排場和炫耀，他唯一關心的是生活在各個大洲的其他人，也包括我們所誕生的地方。
我曾去過非洲，親眼目睹愛滋病瘟疫造成的毀滅性後果。當我們討論這些時，他的眼中含著眼淚，他說：我們必須一起為非洲人民做些什麼。
他打算在盧旺達開一個大型演唱會，我們乘他的私人飛機一起去到那裏，下來後看到他的偉大朋友——納爾遜.曼德拉。悲傷的是，那些計畫沒有實現，世界失去了一個最偉大的人道主義者。
在Elie Wiesel的那次演講中，他也談到了冷漠。他說：“對世界上受苦的人冷漠，人就不像人。”對那些冷漠的人來說，他或她的鄰居無足輕重，他們的生活沒有意義，由於冷漠，他人對他們來說降格成抽像的存在。淡漠總是使侵略者收益——而受害者，由於感到被遺忘而痛苦加劇。
邁克爾.傑克遜感到了那種痛苦，不僅僅為饑餓的兒童，還為他自己，美國人仍然對那加諸在他身上的不公正漠不關心，使他在自己家鄉的土地上，實際上成為囚徒，導致他飛往中東，最終在愛爾蘭——我的家鄉，找到清靜。
諷刺的是，一個如此關心他人的人，被他自己國家的人排斥。他感到深深地痛苦，有一次他曾與我討論，但大多數時候他不想談，我從不掀開那些痛苦的回憶。像他那樣，背井離鄉不是常態。
邁克爾.傑克遜從不會漠不關心，他給黑暗帶來光明，給絕望帶來希望，當他能夠給予同情時，他絕不會殘忍地拒絕。
我們剛開始一個新世紀，新千年，第一個十年是這個星球所經歷的最嚴酷時期之一。這個世紀以世貿中心和五角大樓遭受恐怖襲擊開端。這些事把這個大國拖入了伊拉克和阿富汗的衝突。超過20多個國家有戰爭，給人性投下了黑暗的陰影，如此多的暴力，如此多的痛苦……如果今天有一件事，為了保持對邁克爾.傑克遜的紀念——那就是不要仍然對我們在周圍看到的苦難漠不關心。
有時候我感到上帝拋棄了這個世界，海地發生的可怕地震，屍體被鋼鋸從建築物中切割出來；在尚比亞的葬禮，做棺材的人忙著敲釘子直到深夜；北愛爾蘭街頭，有人因為口音不對而被割喉。
我曾在巴格達住過，我曾是薩達姆.侯賽因的囚犯，我帶著北愛爾蘭戰爭的創傷，今天我要在這裏告訴你們，上帝看著所有這一切不義，他給我們送來了邁克爾.傑克遜來幫助解決……
70年前，一艘船載著1000名猶太人——被聖路易斯港拒絕而送回納粹德國。這艘船已經在美國的海岸上，被遣返給獨裁者。
這發生在美國，現代歷史上所有新國家中最民主、最慷慨的國家。今天這些又發生了，異國的海岸上，無辜的兒童被轟炸，被襲擊。別讓它發生，支持邁克爾所支持的，去摧毀不公正，抗擊疾病，拯救我們所住的星球。
什麼是邁克爾.傑克遜的傳承？未出生的未來世代會如何記住他？
讓我們感謝上帝，給我們送來天使，曾和我們在一起，讓我們對所見的錯事不要漠不關心。今天他在天上俯看我們，如果有一件事是邁克爾想讓我們做的、能讓他開心的，那就是不要拒絕被壓迫被侵害的受害者。如果不知道該如何做……只要想想：
“邁克爾會怎麼做？”
願世世代代的後來人永遠記得他，感謝他。
Dr. Patrick Treacy’s Speech at Gardner St. Elementary, June 22, 2011
source : http://www.mj-777.com/
Yesterday, June 22, 2011, Dr. Patrick Treacy gave this profoundly moving speech at Gardner St. Elementary School which Michael once attended and which once again proudly displays his name on its auditorium.
The event at which this speech was made was a private function set up to honor Michael’s humanitarian legacy, and was done in association with the Michael Jackson Tribute Portrait.
Dr. Treacy’s Speech:
Fifty three years ago, a young black boy was born in a small town in Indiana . This was a different time, a time when the African-American Civil Rights Movement tried to gain freedom from oppression by white Americans.
It was also a time when the next generation of post-war Americans were growing up, the sons of soldiers who had freed prisoners from the tyranny of prison camps like Auswitch and Buchenwald, a time when all of Europe was filled with a profound and abiding gratitude to the American people.
As Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust said in a speech to an important gathering of White House dignitaries in 1999 ‘Gratitude is what defines the humanity of the human being’.
And gratitude is what we should now have today for that young American black boy. His name was Michael Jackson, someone I am privileged to call my friend, somebody who often stood alone to fend for the children in the world, for the destitute, for the victims of disease and injustice.
Michael was very troubled by the suffering he saw in the world and even more to the indifference to it. His first words to me when we met were
‘Thank you so much for helping the people of Africa ’.
There were no airs and graces, no pomp and circumstance and his only concern was for the lives of other people who lived on a different continent than the one in which either of us were born.
I had been to Africa and seen the devastation of the plague of HIV at first hand and when we discussed it, there was tears in his eyes and he said we had to do something together for the people of Africa.
He planned to hold a great concert in Rwanda and we would fly there together in his private plane and then down to see his great friend, Nelson Mandela. Sadly, these events were not to happen and the world lost one of its great humanitarians.
In that speech, Elie Wiesel had also some words to say about indifference. He said ‘To be indifferent to the suffering in the world is what makes the human being inhuman’.
For the person who is indifferent, his or her neighbour is of no consequence. Their lives are meaningless as indifference reduces the other to an abstraction. Indifference always benefits the aggressor — never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.
Michael Jackson felt that pain, not just for the hungry children, but for himself when the people of America remained indifferent to the injustice that was perpetrated upon him making him a virtual prisoner in his own land, causing him to flee to the Middle East and eventually find solitude in Ireland, my home.
What an irony that someone who cared so much about the rest of humanity was rejected by his own. It was a pain he felt deeply and one that on occasion he discussed with me, but mostly he did not want to talk about it and I never opened those painful memories …being like him, exiles beyond the norm.
Michael Jackson was never indifferent. He brought light where there was darkness, hope where there was despair; he never turned away from cruelty when he could give compassion.
We have just started a new century, a new millennium. The first ten years have been some of the most brutal the planet has ever encountered. The century started with terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. These actions dragged this great nation into conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan . There have been wars in over twenty countries, which cast a dark shadow over humanity: So much violence, so much pain.
If there is one thing to do today, to preserve Michael Jackson’s memory — that is not be remain indifferent to the suffering we see all around us in the World.
There are times when I feel God has abandoned this world, the terrible earthquake in Haiti where bodies were cut from building by hacksaw, the funeral undertakers in Zambia where the coffin-makers work banging nails in wood late into the night, the streets of Northern Ireland where throats are cut for pronouncing a word on a beer bottle with the wrong accent.
I have lived in Baghdad, I have been a prisoner of Saddam Hussein, I carry the war wounds of Northern Ireland and I say to you here today that there is a God who looks down on all of this wrong and he brought us Michael Jackson to help to solve it.
Over seventy years ago a ship with a human cargo of one thousand Jews — was turned away from the port of St. Louis back to Nazi Germany . The ship, which was already on the shores of the United States , was sent back and the people left to the fate of the dictator.
This happened in America , a country with the greatest democracy, the most generous of all new nations in modern history. It is happening again today, with the bombing and terrorization of innocent children on foreign shores. Don’t let it happen, stand up for the things Michael stood for, to wipe out injustice, to combat disease and try and save the planet we live in.
What will the legacy of Michael Jackson? How will he be remembered by generations as yet unborn?
Let’s be grateful to God that he sent us such an angel to live amongst us for a while and let us not be indifferent to the wrongs we see around us. If Michael ever wanted us to do one thing that would make him happy as he looks down over us today it would be not to turn away from the victims of oppression and aggression and if in doubt about ever knowing what how to act. . . just think . . .
. . . ‘What Would Michael Do?’
-Dr. Patrick Treacy
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