塔科马今日举行和解步行：重走1885年华人被驱逐之路、舞狮队领队出发
华盛顿州塔科马市一年一度的“反对种族主义和解步行”将于10月24日（周六）举行，今年正值该市华人居民被驱逐141周年。活动由华人调解项目基金会主办，免费向公众开放，上午10时在华盛顿州历史博物馆的塔霍马礼堂举行开幕式，步行队伍定于10时45分从联合车站附近出发，沿市中心与舒斯特公园大道一路走到华人调解公园，中午举行闭幕式。领队队伍包括市政、教育、商界与信仰界领袖，以及麦辉功夫龙狮协会的舞狮队；不能或不愿步行的参加者可搭乘上午10时45分从太平洋大道1911号出发的班车直达公园，返程班车定于下午1时15分返回联合车站。闭幕活动包括塔科马警察局长帕蒂·杰克逊、皮尔斯县议员罗宾·登森和前塔科马全国有色人种协进会会长乔纳森·约翰逊致辞，以及普吉特海湾大学太鼓社的表演，公园内还准备了免费热食。这条路线本身承载着一段沉重历史：1885年11月3日（背景时点），塔科马一群男子把当时留在城里的约200名华人居民（包括家庭 ）集中起来赶出城外，此后被称为“塔科马办法”。今天的步行反向重走当年驱逐之路，主办方说，这是为了记住这段历史，同时重新宣示这座城市属于所有族裔与文化的人。
Tacoma Holds Reconciliation Walk Today: Retracing the 1885 Expulsion Route of Chinese Residents, Led by a Lion Dance Team
Tacoma, Washington's annual Reconciliation Walk Against Racism will be held on Saturday, Oct. 24, in the 141st anniversary year of the expulsion of the city's Chinese residents. Hosted by the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation and free to the public, the event opens at 10 a.m. with a ceremony in the Tahoma Auditorium of the Washington State History Museum; the walk departs at 10:45 a.m. from near Union Station, proceeding through downtown and along Schuster Parkway to Chinese Reconciliation Park, with a closing ceremony at noon. The procession is led by city, education, business and faith leaders and by the Mak Fai Kung Fu Dragon and Lion Dance Association's lion dance team; participants who cannot or prefer not to walk may take a shuttle departing at 10:45 a.m. from 1911 Pacific Avenue directly to the park, with a return shuttle to Union Station at 1:15 p.m. The closing program features remarks by Tacoma Police Chief Patti Jackson, Pierce County Councilmember Robyn Denson and former Tacoma NAACP president Jonathan Johnson, a performance by the University of Puget Sound taiko ensemble, and free hot food in the park. The route itself carries heavy history: on Nov. 3, 1885, a group of Tacoma men rounded up the roughly 200 Chinese residents then remaining in the city, including families, and drove them out of town, in what became known as the "Tacoma Method." Today's walk retraces that expulsion route in reverse; organizers say it is meant to remember that history while reaffirming that the city belongs to people of all ethnicities and cultures.
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图片来源：图：塔科马联合车站（资料图）。照片：Wikimedia Commons（CC BY-SA 4.0）。Tacoma Union Station (file photo). Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
