Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@thebafflermag Thank you. A poor friend returns from the store, downcast. I press for deets. He’d been swindled out of $20 change. “Didn’t you say something?” I ask. “No point,” he replies, “Nobody believes the Black man.” Me, White. Monta, a giant, inside and out; the two of us, eye-to-eye. t.co/VVKrTRid9u

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Quoted by@HumansSQ For a while I shared an East Bay home with formerly incarcerated men. San Quentin hands. For me, the shattering recognition that there, but for an accident of birth, go I.Quoted by@thebafflermag