George's - Writings

  I'm still reading this book, intended for Black People - related to Racism.   I'm white. It's incredible! More - as I get deeper into it!   (I'm adding to this review as I read more and more of this book.) The study showed that a large percentage of Black professionals with ethnically identifiable names such as Lakeisha Ann Washington - would strategically list their name as L. Ann Washington, for example, rather than Lakeisha A. Washington when it came time to apply for a job. (p.17) Livingston recounted the story of a white women he (changed names) he called: "Kaitlin Wilson" , who organized a major DEI presentation at her company;   He noted that Kaitlin came to him and told him how the "name" issue resonated with her.   She stated that she'd met been rejected in her application to a sorority in college after listing her (full) name which was "Diamond Kaitlin Wilson".  Kaitlin met one of the sorority sisters who discovered that she...

  Today’s avatars of this sort of politics include California governor Gavin Newsom, a former business mogul turned politician … During his tenure as governor, Newsom has continued to burnish his credentials as a blue-state cultural warrior through championing various gender and racial equity initiatives… But behind this progressive pageantry is the fact that California remains one of the most unaffordable and economically unequal states in the country and in recent years has held the highest poverty rate of any state in the union 15 p.15-16 Especially at a time of heightened attention to race, this perhaps explains some progressives’ venom for working-class whites.   But the eagerness to exchange at least part of the working class for a professional-class constituency has been a pet project of Democratic leaders since the Clinton era, when the New Democrats – the ruthless, business-savvy alliance that reoriented the party towards policies like financial deregulation and p...

  (Primarily for)   WHITE  ANTI-RACISM  WORK (options) - Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere   (AWARE-LA – SURJ Affiliate) - Saturday Dialogue - (zoom) - https://www.awarela.org/saturday-dialogue – Looking at Masculinity & Patriarchy (LAMP) -  https://www.awarela.org/affinityspaces affinity space of white, male-presenting folks… - Catalyst Project - https://collectiveliberation.org/ - Anti-Racism for Collective Liberation - builds the anti-racist leadership of white people to support multiracial movements for collective liberation.   (MR-F) - Constructive White Conversations  (CWC)-  https://www.constructivewhiteconversations.org/ a gathering in which those who identify as white speak freely and openly about race, racism, oppression, isolation, and all related issues. - Groundwater Institute   https://groundwaterinstitute.com/ is a social enterprise that equips leaders to drive systemic change. (MR) -...

Iran is NOT our Enemy!     Iran has a horribly oppressive government!    Iran has strongly supported: Hezbollah , The Houthis, Hamas, and the Palestinian People.   Iran has strongly opposed Saudi Arabia and similarly has opposed most of the major oil producers in the Middle East.  We use the words: “terrorist” and “terrorism” in a way, which is nowhere near “legalistic” terminology, as well as in representing our biases.   The Native People living in what became The United States, as well as The Mexican People living in much of our “West” had their countries “stolen” by the settlers and later on the government of The United States.    Every treaty granting rights to The Native People was broken by The United States Government. Iran is referred to as a “Terrorist State”.   Similarly, HAMAS has been referred to as being a “Terrorist” force related to Gaza. One need not “like” Iran’s Government, nor HAMAS to recogni...