THOUGHTS ABOUT MIGRATION AND SKILLS

THOUGHTS ABOUT MIGRATION AND SKILLS – skilled migrants better suited for migration When I refer to skills here I’m talking about what one knows how to do that can be sold to others who are willing to pay for what one knows; if what you know to do can be done by many people, almost any one, then your chance of being welcome as an immigrant to another city or country is next to zero – you will be seen as a liability: no city or country wants a poor person with little or no skills. In addition to skills, race is an important factor in determining migrant opportunity. In countries where Europeans are a majority and in control of institutions there is little opportunity for, say, black people to migrate; unless their skill level is high and in demand. Even with a high skill levels blacks will continue to be faced with the politics of European’ dominance: population numbers, institution control, and wealth. Many black people have chosen and or been forced to secure immigrant status or citizenship in another country, particularly Africa; if you examine those black migrants you’ll find that most, if not all, have skills they could employ to support themselves: Africa does not need more poor black people with no usable and or saleable skills to maintain themselves. I see reparations as an integral part of growing the skill bank of, specifically, young black people. Reparations, in my opinion, will have a painful and bloody birth. In the meantime you young people must take the lead in demanding skill development at every step of your education – the question to always ask is, WHAT SKILLS IS THIS SUBJECT TEACHING ME; WILL IT HELP ME GET A JOB WHEN I’M DONE? Don’t wait for adults to get skills for you: It’s your life, so you get them – SKILLS. MILK THE IRON COW - trailer https://youtu.be/Gh5Ybzl7E5c

STANDARD TO PREVENT SUBJECTIVE SHOOTING OF BLACK MEN

Earl Ofari Hutchinson stimulated this post by asking for solutions that might be used to prevent the police shooting of black men. A standard of conduct should be set governing the drawing and or use of a weapon. That standard should be based on the Actual, not Subjective, treat posed by a person. In the absence of an actual treat a weapon must not be drawn and or used. There should be a penalty for violating the standard.

THOUGHTS ABOUT GOVERNMENT SALE OF CITIZENS - to private owners

THOUGHTS ABOUT GOVERNMENT SALE OF IT’S CITIZENS – to private owners The business of American government is obviously business and not the welfare of its citizens. African Americans have lived within this reality since the first slave was put on an auction block. Now as more European Americans witness the sale of public lands, the loss of jobs, loss of investments and pensions, loss of homes, loss of good schools, loss of health care, they like African Americans are beginning to mistrust the conservative mantra – less government more personal control. Whites are beginning to see that they too have been sold to private owners; wealthy white men who see them as commodities to be bought and sold in a free market. In an effort to block the advances of a few black people many whites joined their wealthy owners in demanding that our government annihilate all government programs designed to assist the delayed development of black people; those whites shouted their protest to legislators and courts. Now those whites scream to the government for justice; but their only recourse is their white wealthy owners – it seems to be one of life’s axioms, when you deny the rights of others your own rights are denied. http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC

THOUGHTS ABOUT HYPERBOLE vs REALITY

THOUGHTS ABOUT HYPERBOLE vs REALITY – doing what some say we will never do I have this popcorn brain that gives back more than is put into it. Two women stimulated my brain today by putting in kernels of an idea. Barbara Roberts was the first and Nancy Peske the second. I was one of many hundreds in the Labor Dad Parade this morning. Barbara is a staff member of Actors’ Equity Association, and with the right amount of feminine finesse dropped a kernel into my brain that I, Adolphus, needed to march for Equity this day; if I didn’t march, she said, other Equity members would have to carry Equity’s banner all by themselves. I gotta tell you, Barbra and I are longtime friends, otherwise, I would have told her where she could put her drugstore psychology. A note aside; Sag-Aftra, another actors union, I’m a member, made room for our two unions to march alongside one another. THANKS SAG-AFTRA. Nancy Peske is a friend by inheritance. Her mother, who is deceased, and I shared love when Nancy was quite young. Now she is grown with a fully developed mind and also has a family. We don’t communicate often but each of us will always keep the other in our thoughts. Our recent communication centered on racial tension so present in all our lives and what future race relationships might look like without it. Nancy, baby, I don’t fucking know but this Labor Day Parade has to come close to what I hope and work for. Seated on the curbs and marching in the parade was a virtual microcosm of humanity. We’re doing what some fight like hell not to have us do – WE’RE LIVING and WORKING WITH EACH OTHER. http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC