Black 101 - Frank X Walker

[Larry Robinson]

Black 101 

“How are you afraid of a man
  running away from you?”
                                     -Toni Morrison

Fear is a magnetizer.
It changes the polarity of black bodies.
Makes them highly attractive to
bullets, police batons, tasers,
white rage, white guilt,
and blue-eyed blondes.

Fear is a multiplier.
It turns children into men,
men and women into monsters,
and non-compliant teens
into dangerous gangs
and threatening mobs.

Fear is a magician.
It turns Hip Hop into gangster rap,
plastic toys into guns,
cigarillos, cellphones,
wallets, brazenness,
and extended index fingers
into high caliber weapons.

Fear is a revisionist history class.
It turns people of color into the
enslavers, confederate soldiers,
lynch mobs, klansmen, night riders
and terrorists.

Fear is a sniper.
It takes dead aim, aims to kill,
kills for sport and pleasure,
is pleased to take souvenirs,
and stuffs and mounts its trophies.

	- Frank X Walker

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