It’s time to BE about it, if I’mma be about it.

This is so on-the-nose, I can’t caption it with snark that does it justice.

Sent this letter to my County Executive, yesterday, with the final sentence of it tacked on after two different eyes I ran the letter by suggested that I seek appointment.

Office of the [COUNTY] Executive

Good morning:

I am writing to express my concerns regarding the recent appointment of the Human Rights Commissioner of [COUNTY], [NAME]. Concerns which I believe are well-shared, by the other members of the [COUNTY] community.

Recently, during the January 20 episode of [RADIO SHOW], the Human Rights Commissioner and I came to a parting of ways, regarding the nature of human and civil rights, and the compromises made by the Civil Rights Movement even as they pursued full equality and equity, and justice.

I was and am of the opinion that such a movement cannot have even a small place for prejudice and hypocrisy — the very things it struggles against. And that through the lens of history, such hypocrisy will be viewed with a lens that’s unsparing, and rightfully so. I spoke specifically of Bayard Rustin, one of the cornerstones of the Civil Rights Movement in the middle of the twentieth century. I said that not standing up for Rustin’s rights to live authentically as a gay man, without being shunted to the side and hidden away despite his indispensable help in…