I am feared yet I’m fetishized

Elijah L Wheeler,
Gaithersburg, MD.

I’m a big Black man that can feel the fear of others as I enter their spaces, yet I also hear and am told of their amazement of my aesthetic. My muscles, my skin tone, my voice…as if their “amazement” is envious, jeaolous and hateful all at once…


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