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Simon Willison

Why?

Because they live in America, a country that still has living citizens who's grandparents were born into slavery - and who remember hearing stories of slavery from their grandparents when they were children.

I'm from the UK but I live in the USA now. Until I moved here I had never understood how recent and raw the wounds of slavery were.