Jennifer Matthews teaches eighth grade at Moultrie Middle School in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

詹妮弗·马修斯在南卡罗来纳州芒特普莱森特的莫尔特里中学教八年级。

Moultrie said for African Americans, the past continues in the present, both in the racist ways they are often treated, and in their own attitudes towards others.

穆尔特蕾表示对非裔美国人而言, 过去的境况延续到了现在, 他们不仅在种族歧视方面区别对待, 而且对别人的态度也是一样。

For Shirley Moultrie, the clean elegant feel of the monument misrepresents the actual history of African slavery in New York, when cruelty and misery were part of everyday life.

而对于雪莉·穆尔特蕾而言, 纪念碑的整洁优雅歪曲着曾在纽约非洲奴隶制的真正历史, 那段非常时期残忍及痛苦曾是日常生活的一部分。