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4. What is Countee Cullen's message in "Incident"?

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Countee Cullen, one of the best known poets of the Harlem Renaissance, published "Incident" in his first collection, Color, in 1925. The poem recalls a childhood "incident" in which the speaker's life is forever altered when another child uses a racist slur against him in public.

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