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7.3 Lit Response To Countee Cullen's Incident

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Tarik Adenwala 7.3 Lit Response An “Incident” that has happen to me, and still sometimes does to this day, is very similar to Countee Cullen. He was just minding his own business when someone decides to budge in and give their racial comments, and to this day this occurs more than you may know. Cullen was called the N word for his skin tone, while I get called a terrorist for my first name and my heritage. We have no control over these factors that we are born with, but yet people still go out of their way to bring negativity and racial titles upon people like us. Cullen still remembers this incident even though he was eight when it happened, but just like him I get called racial names quite a bit to this day and especially in the month of
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