Wednesday, October 28, 2015

MY THOUGHTS ON WHITE RACISM AND ENFORCEMENT

THOUGHTS ABOUT WHITE RACISM AND ENFORCEMENT I know it’s a little difficult for some to explore the causes leading up to a violent brutal act by anyone – especially when the act is committed by a person in a position of trust. I’m the kind of person who likes to explore the whys of things; I don’t ignore what happened but my focus is on why; discovering that information I might find a way to prevent it happening again. White racism has conditioned white men to consider them self to be potent. White racism has conditioned black men to consider them self to be impotent. White racism has conditioned both men to see each other in the way they’ve been conditioned. White racism imbues all institutions with white potency and black impotency – black men and women have been lynched, burned alive, torn to pieces, and castigated when and where ever they attempted to demonstrate black potency. Black men have been forged into fearing the potency of white men. White men have been forged into believing they have the power to do whatever they want to a black person – without retribution. Black men and boys fear the potency of white men so much that we remain frozen in fear while our women and children are brutally assaulted and murdered. What is so insidious about white racism is that it encourages black men and boys to kill each other – black men and boys do that without any fear at all. In fact we enjoy demonstrating our potency against one another. http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC

Monday, October 26, 2015

THOUGHTS ON POWERLESS POOR PEOPLE

MY THOUGHTS ON PEOPLE WITHOUT POWER Below I share some dark thoughts about poor people who totally depend on others for their health and wellbeing. These powerless people are usually herded into communities without adequate infrastructure – living spaces, roads, sidewalks, street-signs, communications transportation water or sanitation systems; poor people are usually without jobs that pay a livable wage, without schools that prepare their children for life, without adequate police protection. Powerless people are preyed upon by individuals in and outside their communities. I’m reading a book titled Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington – she exposes the medical experimentation done on black people during and after slavery: unethical experiments performed without the consent of powerless victims. Most of the surgical explorations were performed without pain inhibitors – death rate among these victims was unimaginably high. There is no power in numbers when the numbers are all poor. Powerless people are in constant pain: poor means powerless means pain. I have found that where you have a community of powerless poor people you will also find an abundance of alcohols drugs and churches – all offering relief to the endless pain being endured there. Predators too are present in poor communities and delude themselves into thinking they are in control of their own lives and that of the victims they stalk; they believe themselves to be providing victims with some measure of pain relief; instead they, like the medical experimenters are adding to the existing pain while providing no lasting pain relief. The only people in poor communities who enjoy some relief from pain are the predators – but they too are victims: they just don’t know it. http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY HEMORRHAGING

MY THOUGHTS ON MILWAUKEE’S VIOLENT DEATHS I start by repeating something everyone knows or should know – where ever you find a community locked in by poverty and the absence of education and jobs to alleviate that poverty, violence will be present and become a way of life. When people are starving and can’t feed their minds and bodies they will feed on each other; some among those people will become cannibals – no matter the color of their skin. Don’t conclude that I’m saying the problem is systemic and nothing can be done to solve it. Human choices create social problems and human choices can solve them. Since Milwaukee, that’s all of us, has a community that’s bleeding-out, logic tells me we have to first stop the bleeding. This means stopping the persons who are killing us. There are those among us who don’t give a damn about human life – they place no value in it. We can’t continue to hide and protect them while they continue to kill us. I’ve long considered the phrase ‘killed in a drive-by’ an understatement – one is led to believe that a killer fires into a crowd or house indiscriminately and an innocent life is taken. That’s not true. A killer more often than not has a specific target. When we make the effort to determine who the target was a killer can be more easily identified. There has to be collaboration between law enforcers and residents in impoverished communities to remove killers from among us. Some law enforcers must get rid of the notion that all residents in a community are to be treated as criminals. That attitude provokes law abiding residents to withhold information that could lead to removing killers from the community. WE MUST STOP THE BLEEDING! http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

THOUGHTS ON WASHINGTON JUSTICE OR ELSE

MY THOUGHTS ON WASHINGTON 10/10/15 – JUSTICE OR ELSE I was not in Washington DC on that day. I thank C-Span for covering the event live – I witnessed all of its coverage. There were volumes spoken about Justice but only a few vague lines about Or-Else. If in fact Or-Else really does exist it was not given during C-Span’s coverage. The sad thing about it is that’s what the MARCHERS came to hear. The MARCHERs came for something they could take home and employ that would help change their lives. They did not come to be told that the vengeance of God is the only Or-Else black folk can ever rely on. They came to be given something they could do and not something they could pray for – they did not come again to wait for God’s vengeance. I’m an atheist. I don’t say that boastfully – my atheism is more about what I don’t believe than what I do. I don’t believe in a Supreme Being; I don’t believe in a Devil – a Heaven, a Hell, a Christ (here, gone, coming, or coming back.) I do believe the destiny of the human race is in our hands. No one is coming to save us from ourselves – NO ONE! All institutions: religions, nations, political parties, economic systems, social systems, and others have at least one fatal flaw – all institutions define themselves by exclusion. They tend to see the world as Us and Them. When one adds that institutional flaw to the mission that all institutions seek to perpetuate themselves by propagating and enforcing their beliefs it’s easy to see that conflict is inevitable. I think we humans have a shot at being somewhere in this awesome and growing universe a billion years from now provided we do not define ourselves to the exclusion of others. Like it or not we’re all humans; like it or not we’re all in these United States (the world) and none of us are leaving. So we damn well better find a way to make that reality work for the better for all. http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC

Monday, October 12, 2015

TRILOGY OF FAMILY FICTION

I have written a trilogy of Historical Family Fiction. Each book is set in a specific time and place; the stories are made up but the time, place, and historical events are true. HARVEST THE DUST is Book 1 of the trilogy and is set in Arkansas – 1934. It is a time when Jim Crow Laws governed the lives of black people – what they could and could not do; where, when and how they could do it. The Great Depression is devastating the nation’s economy; cotton is the staple crop; and Arkansas’ fertile land has turned to dust. Go to www.audible.com, www.amamazon.com, www.adolphusward.net for more information.

Friday, October 9, 2015

JUSTICE OR ELSE

MY THOUGHTS ON ‘JUSTICE OR ELSE’ Tomorrow the 10th of October is the day Minister Farrakhan has called peoples of color to a gathering at our nation’s capital. The gathering is expected to attract more than a million men who are dissatisfied with the social, political, and economic status of themselves and their families. The men see themselves and their family as being locked-up and locked-out of education, jobs, housing, healthcare and the sense of well-being enjoyed by others; particularly middle class white people. The dissatisfied of color see the affluence of middle class whites and those at the top and rightly conclude they are outside the means to share in that affluence. Not only are they outside but they are systematically kept there by federal and state laws, policies, and practices. The gathering, then, is to say to our federal government, ‘We demand justice or else.’ I don’t believe justice will ever be freely provided to those who are without a strong political and economic voice. Justice for all is not a reality in America. The gathering on 10/10/2015 will speak for many people who cannot be there. http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

HISTORICAL FAMILY FICTION

I have written a trilogy of Historical Family Fiction. Each book is set in a specific time and place; the stories are made up but the time, place, and historical events are true. HARVEST THE DUST is Book 1 of the trilogy and is set in Arkansas – 1934. It is a time when Jim Crow Laws governed the lives of black people – what they could and could not do; where, when and how they could do it. The Great Depression is devastating the nation’s economy; cotton is the staple crop; and Arkansas’ fertile land has turned to dust. Go to www.audible.com, www.amamazon.com, www.adolphusward.net for more information.

Thursday, October 1, 2015

PLANNED PARENTHOOD

Again PLANNED PARENTHOOD – my view I have and will continue to support Planned Parenthood – even in the face of fetal-tissue, abortion, and black genocide propaganda. At the core of my position is the fact that it is a woman’s soul right to make those decisions vital to her health and wellbeing. My contributions and tax dollar are well place in the services provided by Planned Parenthood. Many women are able to choose services that would otherwise be out of their financial reach. Whether or not PPH should continue to receive federal funding is not a debatable issue with me. All women are infinitely better off with Planned Parenthood. http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC