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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

I am a TOTAL Fool~

  I am a Total Fool I made a Huge Mistake With No One to Blame But Myself My Lesson will Be The Biggest Learning Experience of My Life Painful, Painful, Painful Most Important Most Important Most Important I am starting to Learn Slowly Taking My Time It will take me I don’t know How Long to finally Become at least Part of Whom I want(ed) to Be I had a “false start” Believing Believing I was on that Journey Already I am a Fool Who Does Care I hope …. MayDay 2024

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

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