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Fear is the nature of what is expected of Black people.
This is the fear I imagine Justin Colby’s family experiences through the night as their son is missing in the hands of the Chicago Police Department.
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And to call these protests violent outbursts of fearful people is to undermine the amount of time such events as George Floyd has been manifest.
It’s such a simple statement, but it speaks volumes to the nature of what my elders have taught me all my life for me to be so resilient to the parasite of fear.
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And yet, I remember my time in Kingdom Hall as a child.