What are you afraid of, America?
Racist and antisemitic incidents and language are so much more prominent than they were only recently that they seem almost unremarkable; the number of hate crimes climbed by 11.6 per cent between 2020 and 2021,“Fear has become too frequent a regular emotion,” Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, who was leading prayers when 11 Jews were slain in 2018 at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, said in an interview. “My concern is that people won’t have the tools to recognize its presence and how to work with it.
Days after the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Rev. James Green Somerville delivered a sermon to his congregation at the First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C., titled “Fear Itself.” He argued that the presence of God was an antidote to fear and that the goal of terrorism was to paralyze us with fear.
In the long arc of history, American life has been animated by enslaved people’s fears of their masters’ violence and sexually predatory actions and the countervailing When FDR, in his 1941 State of the Union address, spoke of “four essential human freedoms,” he included “freedom from fear.” Today Americans are as free as they ever have been, and yet they may be more fearful than ever, especially university students, once regarded as the most fearless cohort in society.
'Guns kill more kids than books and drag shows,' reads a protest sign outside Miami Dade College's Wolfson campus this past April.Outside the book – outside the classroom – the places where one can experience fear have expanded exponentially.“Today the prevalence of guns makes the reality of fear greater today than it was when I was growing up as a young Black boy in Flint, Michigan,” said Reggie Williams, a Cincinnati Bengals linebacker who was NFL Man of the Year in 1986.
One of those places is the school library, where culture wars have been fought over the presence of books that deal with race and gender.
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