THE POLITICS OF FEAR

[col. writ. 10/30/10](c) '10 Mumia Abu-Jamal As the mid-term elections approach, the candidates running on the fuel of fear are so high octane that they seem like cartoons. They are either witches or Nazis, rednecks or confederates, but despite their rhetoric, they are running on first and foremost, fear: fear of a Black president. Oh, they may talk budgets, or taxes, or even big guv'ment',