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Why does this activist think a white person can’t translate Amanda Gorman?

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Joel Diggory
Joel Diggory is a writer. He is currently researching a book called Ebony and Ivory, on the interracial writing of people from Joseph Conrad and Jack Kerouac to Frederick Douglass and Toni Morrison

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