能與2012年The Newsroom首集Will的speech “Why America is not the greatest country any more”媲美了，如果我有一個sharper mind。

Jay: I don’t understand what’s happening here. What country is this?Tina: This is America.Jay: This is not the America I know. When I came here with my family, we had nothing and we struggle. But we built a life here and we were welcome here. For years, my Dad kept this little picture of Ronald Regan above our kitchen table, with this quotes from him bout immigrants. “This families came here to work. They came to build. They brought with them courage, ambition, and the values of family.” That is the America I know. I am an immigrant. I am the child of immigrants. We were welcome here.Tina: And today you probably wouldn’t be.This is America. It expands and it contracts. Advances and recedes. Opens and closes. This is a country birthed in freedom and built on slavery. Separating families? They separated the black families in America for 250 years. What makes this feel so bad now is that we expect more. And that’s a good thing. This pain is progress. But do not forget who we are and where we come from. I do not forget where I came from. I grew up in West Baltimore, around the corner from where Justice Marshall grew up. This Justice Marshall. He knew my father. He stood in my living room. The elementary school I went to, Mt. Royal, I went to because of him. I’m here, because of him. He was the grandson of a slave, and he changed American law. He changed the very idea of the Constitution! He made a document that considered him three-fifths of a man. A document of liberation. This is the America I know. A beacon and a curse. Light and darkness. Hope and despair. This is America right now. But America never ends.

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1. Anna Deavere Smith的表演實在太漂亮，鏗鏘有力，抑揚(yáng)頓挫。同片演員Ben Rappaport（飾演Seth）在推上說這段獨白恰恰是Anna Deavere Smith被稱為國寶的原因。

2. 最后一句：這是我認(rèn)識的美國。是一座燈塔也是一個詛咒。是光明也是黑暗。是希望也是絕望。這是如今的美國，然而我們從不消亡。

3. 從黑人的角度解讀如今這段混亂的、以驅(qū)逐移民甚至不惜拆散家庭為使命的社會歷史不得不說沒有諷刺意味，但是演員演出了因為懂得所以慈悲的大悲大愛之感——我夸張了，請見諒。

3. 改變了法律的Justice Marshall指的是用Brown v. Board of Education推翻美國隔離教育法案的那位法官，Thurgood Marshall。他在1991年逝世。

4. “五分之三個人”是美國奴隸制時代一個針對有效選舉人數(shù)的一條協(xié)議法案。