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RT @nick_routledge: @HumansSQ 1/ As it happens, the training and illumination of a skillset honed through years of practiced refinement in the alembic of San Quentin, proved essential to my awakening to community-based restorative justice as fundamental to functional, ‘world resurrection.' Sages abound there.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 31 May 2023

A great, hidden sage has died. My sorrow, coupled with bitterness that the life, majesty and gift of Monta's beautiful soul were catastrophically fettered by the trauma of racialization; the legacy of centuries of abuse, injustice, captivity and poverty, unrelenting to this day.

Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge Nick_routledge 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.
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge Nick_routledge 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.

Photo of Monta Kevin Tindall as a small boy.
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Photo of Monta Kevin Tindall as a small boy.

Photo of Monta Kevin on the porch of the home we shared together in East Oakland. A big guy and snappy dresser!
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Photo of Monta Kevin on the porch of the home we shared together in East Oakland. A big guy and snappy dresser!

A photo at the California State Capitol of a large group of us who made the trip there to plead the cause of formerly-incarcerated folk. Kevin and I sit next to one another.
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A photo at the California State Capitol of a large group of us who made the trip there to plead the cause of formerly-incarcerated folk. Kevin and I sit next to one another.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @lukeburgis Social positioning, moral categories and virtue? Once, sharing with a homeless man, I said 'the good people'. "Oh," he replied. "The people in prison." The rationalizations and denials defining refusal of ego-death get more, not less elaborate, among the well-situated, I find.Quoted by@lukeburgis Social positioning, moral categories and virtue? Once, sharing with a homeless man, I said 'the good people'. "Oh," he replied. "The people in prison." The rationalizations and denials defining refusal of ego-death get more, not less elaborate, among the well-situated, I find.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RobertEllsberg 1/ I'll never forget the jaw-drop on a German theologian happening upon a project I was anchoring in East Oakland, CA, some years back. "Hello," I said. "Know anything about Johann Baptist-Metz or Juergen Moltmann?" Transpired she was writing her dissertation on the two giants.Quoted by@RobertEllsberg 1/ I'll never forget the jaw-drop on a German theologian happening upon a project I was anchoring in East Oakland, CA, some years back. "Hello," I said. "Know anything about Johann Baptist-Metz or Juergen Moltmann?" Transpired she was writing her dissertation on the two giants.