ET ADOLPHUS EARTH-LIKE PLANETS

ET ADOLPHUS back from earthlike planets.
I just returned from visiting a few hundred earthlike planets in our galaxy and others. Yes, there are tens of millions of planetary systems similar to our own. Each one has its sun at the center of orbiting planets. Each one has at least one habitable planet where intelligent life does exist – some systems have more than one such planet.
Like humans, no star is exactly the same as another. It is also true that no star system is the same as another – each star, with its orbiting planets, is unique. I find this fact fascinating: although people are similar, although stars are similar, although star systems are similar, although planets are similar, each one is unique. Each one was born and will die. Each one exists in a unique space and time – each one never existed before or will ever exist again.
As we humans venture out into the universe in search of star systems closer to their birth than their death, in search of habitable spaces for our ballooning population, the ability to adapt will be a critical necessity. If the human species is to survive the chaotic and violent process of change in universal systems, every unique human trait must be employed – therefore every human being, each one of us, might very well be a key to humans surviving extinction.
As I encountered other intelligent beings in habitable zones, it was apparent that, although similar, they are different in many respects – not just in their physical characteristic but their behavior as well: some are more regarding of each other than humans tend to be, while others are more ruthless than humans know to be. Just as we can't explicitly predict human behavior the behavior of other intelligent beings is even more incomprehensible and unpredictable.
Well, fellow travelers I'm off again to the edge of our universe – this time to be inside a dying star at the end of its life. You earth-bounds look up and think about me once in a while, I'll get your thoughts even though we never meet.
Adolphus A. Ward
www.adolphusward.com/.net
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/97591

SYSTEMIC OBSTACLES

SYSTEMIC OBSTACLES/FOCUSSED ANALYSIS
There are systemic obstacles that stand in the way of social, political, and economic progress for African Americans. These obstacles must be identified and critically examined. Middle-class and poor African Americans should be the exclusively focus of the examination. A private group of five (5) – critical analysts – should be formed to structure and conduct the examination.
I've conceptualized a model that could be used to structure and conduct the analysis. I use the acronym L. E. E. – Law, Education, Employment. The question that could be put in the hands of the group is: What in the Law, what in Education, what in Employment slows or blocks the efforts of Black Americans to better their lives?
When the committee has completed its work the findings would be given to the public, to legislators, to educators, and employers – with recommendations for rooting out the obstacles that slow or block the progress of African Americans. This effort would not fit well in a standing (public) institution because of the obvious political constraints. I know that I neither have the economic, social, and political standing, nor, I fear, the intellect to construct the analyst group. So, if this speculation has any value worth carrying forward someone else will have to do it.
Adophus A. Ward
Writer/Actor

ET ADOLPHUS with a note

This is ET Adolphus saying hello to fellow travelers and you unfortunate earth-bounds. Just took a look at myself in a pool of water on a Martian moon. I am indeed an extraterrestrial – bags underneath my eyes and chin, my head's going bald, my elbows and knees of knobbier, and my skin is cold and beginning to shrivel and crack like a planet too far away from the sun. Earth-bounds might see this as horrible but travelers know it's the way it should be – I've been traveling at speeds well beyond that of light for more than ten thousand years and I am just now mature enough to explore other universes. Well, I'm off to visit those earth-like planets scientist think may be habitable for human-kind – I'll let you know what I find.

YOUNG BLACK MEN IN PRISON

A few years back I wrote an essay suggesting that young black men in prison are there because want to be. In the essay I suggested that the hard work of learning an employable skill was more than they wanted to undertake, so they chose the risky and quick way to making money – knowing, or at lease expecting, they would end up behind bars. I went on to suggest that prison takes these YBM out of the hard-work of having to earn a legal living while at the same time providing a handy excuse why they can't ever be productive members in a community. My speculation was and is born out of the notion that we, all of us, make choices; we choose the course our lives take. Yes, the social, political, and economic processes in America are constructed to limit those choices – to obstruct the progress of black people; but we can overcome those obstacles. Just one suggestion – what do you suppose would happen if a group of young black men went to a learning institution demanding to be enrolled in a specific course of skill development; a course that would lead to a good job at its completion? This country is willing to build more prisons it can just as easily build more classrooms, hire more teachers. Sleep on it