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    THE WHITE-WEST: A Look in the Mirror
    THE WHITE-WEST: A Look in the Mirror
    THE WHITE-WEST: A Look in the Mirror
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    THE WHITE-WEST: A Look in the Mirror

    By David Andersson and Rafael Edwards

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    This book is a collection of op-eds published on Pressenza. Each article looks at a different aspect of the Western dynamic as played against other cultures and as seen through current events. While the mainstream often views these issues as either political or economic, I argue that these conflicts are deeper and rooted to a cultural historical
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    PublisherDavid Andersson
    Release dateNov 15, 2021
    ISBN9781087879598
    THE WHITE-WEST: A Look in the Mirror
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    David Andersson

    David Andersson is a French- American who has lived in New York City for 27 years. A citizen journalist, photographer and publisher, David is Coordinator of the NY bureau of Pressenza and host of the Face2Face broadcast on YouTube and Facebook. His publishing experience started in the 80's with the Humanist Movement with a neighborhood newspaper in Paris.

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      THE WHITE-WEST - David Andersson

      THE WHITE-WEST: A Look in the Mirror

      THE WHITE-WEST: A Look in the Mirror

      THE WHITE-WEST: A Look in the Mirror

      David Andersson

      Prologue by Peter Geffen & Photos and Illustrations by Rafael Edwards

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      Contents

      Prologue

      Preface

      Principle 8

      Beyond the White-West vs China Cultural Clash

      Getting Control of Belarus is a Big Deal for the White-West

      Greta the Great is Back

      White Voters for Biden Political Action Front

      California: The Center of the White-West is Burning

      The Stages of Death for the White-West

      Latinx Voters for Biden Political Action Front

      October 2nd a Nonviolence Day in the White West

      European Union and U.S. at War against Refugees and Immigrants

      This is What We Really Need. ASAP

      Letter of Support to the 5th Latin-American Humanist Forum

      72nd Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

      California State of Mind

      January 6, 2021

      The Great Divorce of the Century

      The Texas Climate and Energy Phenomena

      The Root of Violence in the United States Lies in the White Community

      From National to Transnational Threat, the White-West is on the Move

      Humanizing the World vs Going Back to Normal

      George Floyd Facing the White-West

      From George Floyd to a Cultural Reconciliation Process

      Principle 11

      Epilogue

      Acknowledgements

      About The Author

      Copyright © 2021 by Pressenza / David Andersson

      Permissions to print and published all photos and illustrations have been granted by Rafael Edwards on request and on a pro bono basis.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      First Printing, 2021

      Prologue

      It is rare in our times to hear a radical voice that is neither strident nor violent, yet here is the distinguished and deeply committed humanist, David Andersson, providing just that.  In a series of forceful and accurate analyses, Andersson challenges us to look in the mirror and be honest with ourselves. Tackling the most complex issue of our time, the historic responsibility of the White world for actions that have led directly to our contemporary moral crisis, he combines facts and opinion in a humble and quite noble attempt to help us change direction.

      I met David over 20 years ago when he first came to work in (of all things) the technology department of The Abraham Joshua Heschel School in NYC that I founded in 1983.  It was probably no accident of fate that brought him to the school named for the Rabbi whose friendship and shared values-commitment with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. remains legendary.  Over the years David invited me to many events of the Humanist community in New York and he traveled with me to Israel/Palestine. I saw his humanism manifest in his openness and his personal morality and ethics reflected in his authentic compassion as evidenced in the essays that follow.

      I share with David a radical critique of our times.  I am envious of the imagination and conviction he commits to the written word.  My own teacher (and maybe by now a little of David’s as well) Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put the challenge this way: 

      To be human is to be involved, to act and to react, to wonder and to respond....To live means to be at the crossroads.  There are many forces and drives within the self.  What direction to take is a question we face again and again.  Who am I?  A mere chip from the block of being?  Am I not both the chisel and the marble?  Being and foreseeing?  Being and bringing into being?

      This book will be of great assistance to those already on the path of personal and then communal renewal. It is of even greater import to those at the crossroads.  Only we can be the ones to be bringing into being.

      Peter A. Geffen, Founder

      The Abraham Joshua Heschel School

      Founder and President,

      The KIVUNIM Institute

      Preface

      The project that eventually became this book started with George Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020. Like many Americans, I was trying to get my head around that senseless killing -- wondering (again, and then again) how anything like this could take place today, more than 50 years after the U.S. Civil Rights movement.  

      As more and more Black people were interviewed on the news, invited on talk shows, and given space for op-ed pieces, I started to realize that there is little, in reality,  that communities of colors can and should do at this time to resolve the innate racism of this country. Why should Black people be held responsible for transforming a situation they didn’t create? Why, instead, don't we focus on the people who have created this situation in the first place?

      When I say the people, I am not speaking about the hard-to-miss racists who are easily identified, interviewed on CNN, and publicly shamed for their outdated attitudes. I am talking about a collective people, with a collective set of beliefs, whose lives take place within a collective structure that has, at a

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