WHITE MEN BEING or I’d Really Like to be With You — BUT I Can’t

White Men Being or

I’d Really Like to be With You — BUT I can’t

“Why can’t you?”

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Privileged white men — my peers — disproportionately are “not there” when it comes to “doing the work”!

In white Anti-Racism spaces, I normally see about 20–25% men, 75–80% gender-non-binary and/or women. Among the white men, we het/hettish men seem even more under-represented.

In an embodied, not head based, nine-month training with Resmaa Menakem, less than 5% of us were male. I struggled there. (The struggle was a good challenge for me.) I’m “very male” in significant ways!

Before going further, I’d like to dedicate this writing to two very special People:

Esther Armah — an amazing Black Woman https://www.theaiej.com/about + my review of her excellent book: https://www.georgemarx.org/2024/06/emotional-justice-esther-armah-amazing.html

I was lucky (and privileged) both to hear her speak and to briefly talk with her and have our picture taken together.

and: Tom Mosmiller — a white man — who has “done the work”. During the AIDS epidemic Tom was working finding necessary housing for those who needed it most. His professional and…