But that wasn’t the final indignity. The letter also contains a hidden message. The first letter of each paragraph is part of an acrostic of the word “resist.”

Reproach

Elevating

Speaking

Ignoring

Supremacy

Thank

Evidently, they aren’t the arts council for nothing.

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