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Back the Black and Blue

What do you do when you're a black cop at a Back The Blue protest with a Black Lives Matter counter-protest in front of you, to left and right, and possibly pursuing your rear and career? Which direction does your identity choose, if not to feel troubled by a false choice either way? Is there some platform, strange principle, peculiar position among Mattering Political Black Lives that you cannot have a healthy vocation while carrying a ballistic weapon and continue being a Black Life in good and valued standing? Or, to Back my Blue, must I succumb to StraightWhitePatriarchal Privilege? Are there any color boxes still widely open and deeply inviting? Can I not aspire to become a non-binary bound, non-white, ecofeminist for EarthRights to health and safety and peace and restoring green justice? Recognizing and appreciating only Earth as Master, Mistress, Goddess, Sacred Eden. Discarding old school memories of enslaved custody of imprisoned eyes and ears for hearing, suppressing custody of healthy taste and fragrantly smelled beauty, of cooperative touch and globally compassionate feeling, Regarding green lives matter schools and reschooled deep learning full 20/20 ownership of Black and Blue and Green proud lives for multicultural mediation.

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