George's - Writings

  Sheila Kennedy, a highly intelligent blogger, spoke words in her writing today (note: this writing has been completed some time after when it was begun) which seems totally incomplete and really (inadvertently) not helpful for me, and I believe many others.   See:   https://sheilakennedy.net/2025/06/the-roots-of-maga/ A good example of a counter-narrative (who ironically was mentioned in the column) is Arlie Russell Hochschild, a peer of Sheila at age 85 – See: https://www.georgemarx.org/2019/07/arlie-russell-hochschild-anger-and.html Hochschild studied white women in Louisiana well over a decade ago.    She was listening to female Tea Party supporters. The modern day Tea Party enthusiasts I met sought a different separation – one between rich and poor.  In their ideal world, government would not take from the rich to give to the poor.  It would fund the military, and the national guard, build interstate freeways, dredge harbors, and ...

  Still, forgiveness, when given freely, can be powerful.   …   As Chris Singleton, whose mother was murdered by white supremacist Dylann Roof attested, “I’ve realized that forgiving is so much tougher than holding a grudge…It takes a lot more courage to forgive than it does to say, ‘ I’m going to be upset about whatever forever.’”    Forgiveness permitted Singleton to keep his power, to bestow grace upon someone who’d hurt him tremendously. Forgiveness is something you do for yourself before you can forgive others.   Forgive yourself for when you knew you should’ve spoken up, but you were scared.   p.222 And so I’d like to more fully describe the steps that Ama Saran taught me: (1) acknowledge the harm, (2) apologize, (3) make amends, and (4) plan to prevent future harm. p.223 https://lorettajross.com/ https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2022/loretta-j-ross This is an incredible book, written by a most wonderful individual who I greatly ...

  Fear – Trauma – Safety – Curiosity all relate to each other within all of us (in my estimation).    My own fears relate to the traumas both within me – from my entire lifetime, as well as how I’m impacted historically.   I’ve been afraid of men and boys.    As a young child I was emotionally all alone!   I had virtually no meaningful friends in my life.    I was also bullied by three boys, all two years older than me,   when I was a pre-teen.   That impacted me a lot.   I’ve never had a “99% or 100% best friend” in my entire life.    If I feel troubled in a moment or beyond that moment for a longer period of time, there is no single person that I’d seek out and confide in (now, as well as earlier in my earlier life). I didn’t start unpacking a lot of this until reasonably recently. Rashida Tlaib, George Bisharat and Marx My childhood friends who’ve meant a lot to me are few.    Moments of deep meanin...

    Noor Alyacoubi   The Electronic Intifada  12 June 2025 Displaced Palestinians have sought refuge at Gaza’s port, where they are enduring harsh conditions in makeshift tents erected along the coastline and public squares in the west of the city, 8 June 2025.  Omar AshtawyAPAimages At the beginning of April, I was catching up with my friend Mahmoud who had relocated to Beit Lahiya after Israel bombed and destroyed his home in Jabaliya. Mahmoud and I spoke over WhatsApp instead of in person, as reaching Beit Lahiya in the north isn’t easy – transportation is scarce and expensive due to Israel’s restrictions on fuel entry, and it’s a long distance from where I live in central Gaza, in al-Daraj neighborhood. Mahmoud told me about how Israel has made northern Gaza  unlivable . The homes have been destroyed, the infrastructure collapsed and the people face severe shortages of water and electricity. For over a year after 7 Oc...

(Menachem) Imanuel Marx - 06/29/1918-11/13/6 - Residence from Birth - 1927 Youngest Son of Moses Marx (1885-1973) - my Grandfather   Moses Marx - Merchant - 11 Helmstederstrasse, Wilmersdorf, Berlin In talking with several people passing by, I learned that most of the buildings on my father's block and nearby had been built around 1900.   There was damage from World War II bombing, and most of them had been repaired.   I couldn't tell with 100% certainty that the house my father lived in was (not) rebuilt (some from their doors clearly were over 100 years old), but it seems likely it is the original building, probably with the apartments made into smaller units that I imagine my grandfather's residence would have been (he was wealthy prior to the end of World War I). Plaque - re: Albert Einstein Talking with several people walking in my father's birthplace neighborhood, I learned that about 2 1/2 blocks from where my father lived from his birth in 1918, (I'm gue...