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Table of Contents and More

Table of Contents and More

  Table of Contents and Much More   PARTIAL  - TABLE OF CONTENTS + More www.GeorgeMarx.org  - My Personal Blog www.WorkingTowardsEndingRacism  - My Anti-Racism Blog https://joinmerj.org/  -  MERJ - Men for Equity and Reproductive Justice Caring White Men Sharing Together  - www.CaringWhiteMen.com EXCELLENT FREE VIDEOS https://www.georgemarx.org/2024/03/excellent-videos-no-cost-to-watch.html -- A.    P E R S O N A L     W R I T I N G S   1.  B O O K   (+ MORE)   R E V I E W S  -   R A C I S M http://www.workingtowardsendingracism.org/2023/04/resources-updated.html 2.   R E P R O D U C T I V E    J U S T I C E https://www.georgemarx.org/2023/01/reproductive-justice-my-writings.html 3.  ISRAEL - PALESTINE - JUDAISM https://www.georgemarx.org/2022/12/palestine-israel-judiasm-posts-links-my.html 4.  R A P E   -  R E L A T E D https://www.georgemarx.org/2023/05/rape-related.html 5.  B O O K   (+MORE)   R E V I E W S  -   O T H E R https://www.georgemarx.org/2023/05/book-reviews-plus-more.htm
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Daniel Marx - My Brother

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  July 23, 1953 - April 22, 2024 My brother died last evening officially at 7:57 pm in the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey.  I was the only one in the room to see his journey move forward.    I wasn't the most "with it" of kids!   When my mother and brother came home from the hospital I evidently said:  "Who's that woman?" to my father.     In 1956, when Daniel was three we moved from Ann Arbor, Michigan to West Lafayette, Indiana.   We lived the first year in a university owned house near the intersection of Happy Hollow and North River Roads in WL.   A year later our parents bought the house at 122 North Street, across the street from Morton School where we grew up.   The upstairs apartment's living room was our bedroom, and the bedroom was our parent's bedroom. My brother was always closer to our father, and I to our mother.   In the second grade (I think Mrs. Tully's class) he was caught reading a book at
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Part II - So How Can We White Men Work Together?

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  So, how can we white men work together? Me - 40 pounds heavier - some time ago - above We can: 1.)   Show curiosity – deep curiosity about a lot of things, 2.)   Recognize, when we are deeply privileged, that we both: a.     Have a lot of potential power, individually and collectively, and b.    Feel a sense of responsibility to seriously “do the work” in sustained, significant ways, 3.)   Confront the relative complacency within ourselves and other privileged people (in general), 4.)   Feel uncomfortable, like an outsider, even perhaps an (unwilling) imposition upon others more much more than tokenly, 5.)   Network – build allyship – and confront our tendency to be “buddies”, rather than allies both with others similar to who we are in our complexities, as we are, and 6.)   Working as “outsiders” supporting the work of people,   much different from ourselves, 7.)   Take on the seeming hopelessness(es) of our worlds, with deep commitment to see the lifelong
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Part I - White Man - I'm Impatient!

  Fellow white man, I’m impatient!    We are not on the same path!    I do not want to be your “buddy”.    I am open to, and welcoming of “allyship”, however I’m very skeptical. Over five years ago we started working together.    I certainly was a “mixed bag” then.    One thing I had, though, was a drive towards serious systemic change.    Building that change required that I deepen my personal work.   I also needed to go well beyond the personal work (alone). Helping build the change necessitates: 1.     1.  Confronting other white men and welcoming their confronting of me, 2.     2.  Being deeply uncomfortable frequently, 3.     3.  Feeling like and often being an “outsider” in various spaces, 4.     4.    Listening deeply and being seriously curious, 5.     5.  Making mistakes and trying to minimize the harm that we and I create, 6.     6.  Welcoming the journey – the process – not being “end goal” attached, 7.     7.    Working with others – not being an individua
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