The power to resist and exist in America, a response to the efforts to erase marginal groups from American history and whitewash the national narrative.
As a Jew, the traditions, history, and stories of Judaism are vital to my self-identity. A well as how I see the current political moment as one of danger. I do not think you can have a coherent view of Jewish history and maintain confidence in any authoritarian regime.
Thank you for sharing this, david. It really stretches my mind to know you have such a strong identity rooted in your traditions, history, stories... which is so foreign to me I can barely comprehend it. Thinking of what it would it be like to have a long line of tradition behind you, a history that is beyond personal but of a people of which you are a part, and stories, even as much of it is to break your heart.
I'm coming from a place of feeling like an orphan for most of my life, or at least, not a part of, not really belonging.
My self-identity is based in part on being half-Asian, but I was not raised in that culture, and the one I did grow up in as half-White, didn't accept me or my mother or siblings. We arrived in the US ten years after Pearl Harbor. We were nobody's favorite people.
And the secrets held in our family just isolated us more.
I think we find our way though. I have pieces of stories and memory and experience, every little scrap that I can retrieve that makes me feel more whole, that gives me a greater sense of who I am. And I want to learn more about the cultures and people, their traditions, their stories that I have a connection to by way of genes.
I also have no confidence in any authoritarian regime or leader, except that they will betray you. Some will pay more dearly, but no one escapes the cost.
Thank you for opening up a lot of things for me to ponder. ❤️
As a Jew, the traditions, history, and stories of Judaism are vital to my self-identity. A well as how I see the current political moment as one of danger. I do not think you can have a coherent view of Jewish history and maintain confidence in any authoritarian regime.
Thank you for sharing this, david. It really stretches my mind to know you have such a strong identity rooted in your traditions, history, stories... which is so foreign to me I can barely comprehend it. Thinking of what it would it be like to have a long line of tradition behind you, a history that is beyond personal but of a people of which you are a part, and stories, even as much of it is to break your heart.
I'm coming from a place of feeling like an orphan for most of my life, or at least, not a part of, not really belonging.
My self-identity is based in part on being half-Asian, but I was not raised in that culture, and the one I did grow up in as half-White, didn't accept me or my mother or siblings. We arrived in the US ten years after Pearl Harbor. We were nobody's favorite people.
And the secrets held in our family just isolated us more.
I think we find our way though. I have pieces of stories and memory and experience, every little scrap that I can retrieve that makes me feel more whole, that gives me a greater sense of who I am. And I want to learn more about the cultures and people, their traditions, their stories that I have a connection to by way of genes.
I also have no confidence in any authoritarian regime or leader, except that they will betray you. Some will pay more dearly, but no one escapes the cost.
Thank you for opening up a lot of things for me to ponder. ❤️