Outing Blue Privilege: A Call for Public Love Because Public Safety Is Not Enough Douglass gentleness

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First published in 1975

and full humanity of children

and who of us is exempt

Outing Blue Privilege: A Call for Public Love Because Public Safety Is Not Enough Douglass gentlenessPublic love is protest and policy advocacy. Policy advocacy is a civic prayer that impacts the soul of the nation. There are so many ways we patrol, punish, and compromise our humanity; ways we impugn our faith and shred the fabric of democracy. Policing and punishment hover over us as matters of life and death. Our world aches for a species of love strong enough to undo the personal, collective, and structural terror and trauma of policing and