Pop defends, praises De La Cruz
Posted on June 13, 2013 at 7:03 pm by Dan McCarney
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich offered words of encouragement for Sebastien De La
Cruz, the young San Antonian who drew a flurry of racist comments on Twitter
after singing the national anthem Tuesday at Game 3 of the NBA Finals.
總決賽第三場比賽前，一位名叫Sebastien De La Cruz墨西哥裔美國人的小男孩為
比賽唱了國歌。事後，De La Cruz在自己的推特上收到了很多種族歧視的評論。
“I would like to say I would be shocked or surprised by the comments,”
Popovich said about an hour before tipoff of Thursday’s Game 4 at the AT&T
Center. “But given the fact that there’s still a significant element of
bigotry and racism in our nation, I’m not surprised.
「我會說我對這些評論感到很震驚，或者說很吃驚，」波波維奇說道，「但是考慮到
一些偏見和我們國家的種族歧視，我又不吃驚了。」
“It still plagues us, obviously. And what I was surprised by was how proud
these idiots were of their ignorance by printing their names next to their
comments.
「這依舊在荼毒著我們，很明顯。讓我感到吃驚的是，這幫白痴還在他們的評論後面
無知地加上了他們的名字。」波波維奇說道。
“(De La Cruz) is a class act. Way more mature than most his age. And as much
as those comments by the idiots saddens you about your country, he makes you
feel that the future could be very bright.”
「De La Cruz他的表現超越了他的年齡。並不需要在意那些白癡的評論怎麼說你的國
家，他讓你覺得未來是非常光明的。」
A sampling of the comments can be found at the tumblr site Public Shaming.
(Warning – language.)
De La Cruz, 11, was a last-minute replacement for Darius Rucker, who
experienced travel problems and missed his scheduled singing of the national
anthem.
The boy appeared on television’s “America’s Got Talent” last year, and in
April performed with the San Antonio Symphony at its traditional Fiesta Pops
concert.
由於另外一名歌手因為塞車沒能趕上比賽前的唱歌儀式，11歲的De La Cruz才能在那
場比賽中得到上場表現的機會。
男孩唱歌影片
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u92yUQfD9HQ
原文來源：http://tinyurl.com/mq8jq2p
翻譯參考：http://voice.hupu.com/nba/1438360.html