It’s an open secret among Black men that people are usually afraid of them. Of us.
We operate in this world with that awareness, knowing that everyone else’s comfort level is more important than our own because what’s scarier than a presumably angry, aggressive black man?
Tones must be kept in check, animated responses must be muted and slights should be overlooked. Being labeled “an angry, black man” was the one stereotype Brian Flores feared most, and labored to distance himself from.
