My first reaction was what are these people afraid of?

"I ask you, what are these people so afraid of?"

"But I learned just how afraid and unwilling people are of talking about race," he added.

My father's afraid that people will wonder what's wrong with him, if his children are blind.

Perhaps that image is one of people afraid to hold their heads up and stand proud to be Americans.

He said it is "a fairy story for people afraid of the dark"

"I don't want to walk around and have people afraid of me."

This is interesting stuff, why are people so afraid of discussing it?

"I wonder if all those people afraid to send their kids to school want to see us debate this issue in a few weeks."

There are some powerful people afraid of what I know.