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

2 March 2021

10:28 PM

2 March 2021

10:28 PM

She is the darling of the nation, the star of the inauguration, the first US National Youth Poet Laureate: she is Amanda Gorman, the person who serenaded America and the new president with a SLAM poem. Naturally, of course, Gorman’s poems have become best-sellers, and she was praised by just about everyone.

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