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“Less than 18% of podcast hosts are people of color,” says Rahma, “and in my opinion, that is highly offensive in a society where that is not the case in our actual population.
WOOSTER
– Mamoudou N Diaye called for greater accountability and careful listening as society grapples with teaching and talking about racism in America. Many people in this country have been fed a single story, and not only has that single story omitted many of us, been responsible for dangerous stereotypes and so divisiveness in the populous, it fed us an extremely white-washed and heavily edited version of history, said N Diaye, keynote speaker at the College of Wooster s virtual Martin Luther King Jr. Day program.
N Diaye – a Mauritanian-American comedian, filmmaker, writer, activist and former seventh-grade science teacher – offered his insight on the fight for social justice and welcoming fresh perspectives that differ from what has been outlined in textbooks and mainstream media.