<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Black 101 </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class="">“How are you afraid of a man</i></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class=""> running away from you?”</i></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class=""> -Toni Morrison</i></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fear is a magnetizer.</div><div class="">It changes the polarity of black bodies.</div><div class="">Makes them highly attractive to</div><div class="">bullets, police batons, tasers,</div><div class="">white rage, white guilt,</div><div class="">and blue-eyed blondes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fear is a multiplier.</div><div class="">It turns children into men,</div><div class="">men and women into monsters,</div><div class="">and non-compliant teens</div><div class="">into dangerous gangs</div><div class="">and threatening mobs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fear is a magician.</div><div class="">It turns Hip Hop into gangster rap,</div><div class="">plastic toys into guns,</div><div class="">cigarillos, cellphones,</div><div class="">wallets, brazenness,</div><div class="">and extended index fingers</div><div class="">into high caliber weapons.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fear is a revisionist history class.</div><div class="">It turns people of color into the</div><div class="">enslavers, confederate soldiers,</div><div class="">lynch mobs, klansmen, night riders</div><div class="">and terrorists.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fear is a sniper.</div><div class="">It takes dead aim, aims to kill,</div><div class="">kills for sport and pleasure,</div><div class="">is pleased to take souvenirs,</div><div class="">and stuffs and mounts its trophies.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Frank X Walker</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>