| You come upon a SCROLL that reads: On the Friday before Martin Luther King Day, students at a local high school crowd into the auditorium. They are having an assembly to celebrate Martin Luther King, who single-handedly ended racism in America forever. Now we do not discriminate. We are colorblind here. Throughout much of the next neighborhood over, ramshackle apartment buildings dot the cracked pavement. The school in that neighborhood receives less funding. The color of the student majority's skin is irrelevant. We are colorblind here. Just downtown, a man is shot dead in the street by police for carrying a woodcarving knife. The color of the man's skin and the color of the officer's are irrelevant. We are colorblind here. Two men grab a woman outside the 76 down south and drag her across the street into a building. No cars stop. The color of the men and woman's skin is irrelevant. We are colorblind here. You pocket the SCROLL and approach a dead-end with a scarecrow. The wind blows and the stiff stalks of hay in the its joints rustle. You feel a strange presence emanating from the scarecrow. Do you: |