APARTHEID - by FORCE

APARTHEID – OPPRESSION by FORCE Israeli Apartheid is not new – it inherited the structural blueprints from the United States and South Africa’s forms of Apartheid. What is new about the Israeli’s form is that it has the advantage of state-of-the-art construction materials, military weaponry, and the skills to use them effectively. What the US and SA’s experiences are reluctant to pass on to Israel is that the only way to completed control a people is to kill them all – both the US and SA have had their attempts at that. Oppressors throughout history have given the same excuse for their action – the oppressed will rise and consume us if we allow them to prosper. In today’s idiom, Israelis in fact say, ‘we need apartheid to defeat the terrorist.’ This mindset ignores what is historically obvious – oppression creates terrorist. www.adolphusward.net

WHY I WRITE BOOKS - 2

SHARING MY THOUGHTS why I write books – 2 For as long as I can remember I’ve been curious as to why I do what I do – why others do what they do. The simple answer is because I want to do it, or feel I have to. I think the same is true for others; but my questions didn’t stop there. I’ve come to the conclusion that conflict pushes us toward the choice we make. Conflict doesn’t make the choice for us – it manipulates that choice. I know that some of my behavior has created conflict in my life and the lives of others. I am certain that the action of others has brought conflict into my life. Not all behavior grows out of conflict but it is present in much of what we do. Jim Crow Laws of the south – and the more subtle forms of those laws in the north – were designed to limit the rights of Black People by controlling their behavior. Black People couldn’t hold jobs paying more money or be more important than jobs held by White People, couldn’t vote, couldn’t share public spaces with White People, couldn’t use the courts to defend their rights, couldn’t live in white communities, or couldn’t receive an education along with Whites. These laws brought conflict into the lives of Black People – the consequences of those laws are still with us. www.adolphusward.net

WHY I WRITE BOOKS

SHARING MY THOUGHTS about why I write books – 1. My books are primarily a salute to the resilience, the stubborn insistence, of Black Americans to be active citizens in a country that still, to this day, functions in the shadows of slavery. My parents and grandparents loved America; I love American – not because of Abraham Lincoln or the founding-fathers, but because my parents, grandparent, and ancestors worked bled and died to make it our home. The Elaine Riot of 1919 was but one of many rebellions by Negroes around the country that year - history records those rebellions as the Red Summer of 1919. Elaine, Arkansas was the site of the riot: the riot was sparked by Negro Sharecroppers attempting to form a Sharecroppers Union. If you’re a reader click on the site – If you’re not a reader, click anyway. www.adolphusward.net

ON AGING AND GRAVITY

JUST SHARING a few thought on aging and gravity. A while back I looked at myself in a mirror and discovered I’d morphed into ET, that wrinkly little extra-terrestrial in science fiction. True, 6 feet 2 is not short; but there was no denying the bags under my eyes, the drape of flesh beneath my chin, the saggy tit’s that used to be pect’s, and the ass that was no longer there. I can understand the tug of gravity on every part of my aging body, but I don’t understand what happened to my ass – what the fuck happened to my ass. True, I never had a big ass, but I did have enough to hold my pants up. Now it looks as if what I did have has melted away – maybe that’s what naturally happens to an aging ass, it just melts away. www.adolphusward.net

CONFLICT INFLUENCES BEHAVIOR

I’m sharing and selling - I am who and what I am by the choices I’ve made. No one, nothing has contributed more to who and what I am than me. It was and is my choice my behavior that makes me who I am. In my novels I look at how conflict influences character behavior. www.adolphusward.net.

PASTORS DECLARE WAR ON GAY MARRIAGE

PASTORS AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE The pastors and there followers will find themselves at war with their mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters, grandchildren, and whatever value the God they ignorantly serve still has - everyone bleeds, everyone dies in war. www.adolphusward.net.

PRESS RELEASE

AW IDW www.adolphusward.net PRESS RELEASE 21 APRIL 2014 Adolphus A. Ward, a seventy-Nine year old Independent Writer, released the 2nd Edition of an African American Family Trilogy. His fascinating stories examine how conflict, both inside and outside a family, influenced individual behavior and continued to affect behavior in the generations that followed. The stories, he said, are connected yet they stand alone – each with themes of its own – each with a clear beginning, middle and end. “HARVEST THE DUST” is the first of the trilogy. “MILK THE IRON COW” is the second. “STAND UPSIDE DOWN” is the third and final book. Mr. Ward’s captivating stories follow the lives of three successive generations of the Tallman Family. Ward admits he is unaware of another trilogy, in print or ebook, of African American Family life and assumes his to be unique, both in structure and story content. His stories begin on a cotton farm in Colt, Arkansas, 1934 – a time of the Great Depression and Jim Crow Laws. The stories end in two Wisconsin Cities: Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1941– a time of World War II and job discrimination, based on race; and Kenosha, Wisconsin 1984 – a time when Affirmative Action was under siege. Ward was unequivocal when he said, ‘My stories are an acclamation to the resilience of African American People.’ The trilogy is available at his website in print and ebook. He believes readers will finish his novels with an enlightened understanding of African American life. www.adolphusward.net