THOUGHTS ON STOLEN COUNTRY AND RESTORING CRIMINAL JUSTICE

THOUGHTS ON STOLEN COUNTRY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE – please share I’ve been living for just about eighty-one years and most political catch phrases pass through me as easily and as often as my body’s waste – neither bowel nor bladder problems. There are, however, a couple political hypes that cause me to re-regulate my breathing. I don’t reach the point of hyperventilating – the hypes aren’t that sophisticated; they, in fact, are blatantly absurd and stupid. As a member of the black race enslaved and still exploited by America’s white leaders I urge those politicians and pundits trying to “get our country back” to search among themselves for the thieves who stole it. As for “restoring the criminal justice system,” Justice for the descendants of slaves has yet to become a reality; any restoration of what was in the courts for black people would be a road to genocide. http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC

THOUGHTS ON REPARATION - BOTTOM UP

THOUGHTS ON REPARATIONS – from the bottom up; please share If you’re a black person or a descendant of African Peoples, reparation should be of interest to you. An abundance of information on reparation is available in print; you can catch up quickly by Googling Reparation. There’s a lot of misguided information and understanding about reparations. Reparation is not intended to pay individuals for harm done them – so, if a white person calls you a nigger or a police dog bites you or even if you lose a relative at the hands of a white mob or police violence, reparation is intended to remedy the harm done to African peoples and their descendants: THAT MEANS THE WHOLE RACE, not individuals. Affirmative Action is a small but significant step toward healing the harm done to back people in America. It does not take jobs from qualified white people and give them to unqualified black people; but Affirmative Action does move qualified black people ahead of qualified white people where black people have ever been discouraged or denied entry into specific jobs or work places. CHECK BOOKS /ACTING ON MY WEB SITE http://www.adolphusward.net

RANDOM THINKING

Thoughts on RANDOM THINKING on… Woke up in the middle of the night with my mind racing around Around politicians preaching gonna give it to you You want your grandchildren to be safe from preditors Preditors who wear uniforms complete with badges of honor Honor that taste like shit Shit that falls from a drone sky killing innocence Innocence that look to us for direction Direction to a place called home Home where we can see our grandchildren’s lives without boycott Boycott for the right to exist Exist in the midst of perpetual war War for dominance in the name of democracy Democracy that behaves like plutocracy Plutocracy that boldly controls life Life that still waits for a jesus Jesus will never come Come we shall over Over the come now Now we have to take Take and make our own Own heaven right here Here… http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC www.adolphusward.net

THOUGHTS ON FRIENDSHIP AND INTEREST

THOUGHTS ON FRIENDSHIP AND INTEREST – a reflection I just finished a task I’ve been working on for a year or more – I’ve competed and uploaded my trilogy of audio books; one is already available at Audible.com and Amazon.com with the remaining two to soon follow. Before I dive into my next project, a solo performance to promote my books, I’m taking time to do absolutely nothing except visit theatres, book stores, museums, art galleries, movies, the ocean, and restaurants. At this moment I don’t give a shit if I never get back to work. My friend Lloyd Roseman and I share at least two passions – acting and the universe; yes, that vastness we too often give little or no attention. We see our sun our moon our planets our stars without really takin in the fact that there are billions of suns moons planets and star in our universe and that number is growing. On a hot day we get some idea what a violent place the sun is; any closer to that ball of molten hot stuff and we, all life on earth, would be instantly toasted; any farther away and we, all life on earth, would be instantly ice cubes. Earth is just where it needs to be for us, all life, to exist. Perhaps this fact doesn’t give you pause; but what might cause you to give some thought to our awesome universe is that everything in it is moving at unimaginably high speeds. It doesn’t take a high degree of intelligence for one to conclude that some stuff is going collide with other stuff. Solar systems are being born while others die; galaxies are being born as others die – some think universes are born and do die – these thoughts might hold your attention for at least a minute or two. Me, I’m gonna have a good breakfast in a favorite spot of mine and not think about fucking thing. http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC

LOVE 99 EQUITY UNION FOLLOWUP

LOVE 99 AND EQUITY UNION FOLLOWUP Some people find it necessary to demonize those they disagree with; early in my eighty plus years of living I learned to disagree without demonizing another person or group of persons. When I disagree with Love 99 that neither stops my respect for the work they do or my enjoyment of a performance and performers. I love theatre, all forms of it, and being an actor in it. I have friends in Love 99; for me those friendships will continue. My disagreement with Love 99 as a business is that money is made using the work of actors who do not share in the benefits produced. Simply put, when benefits flow from the work I do I want a share of those benefits – something for something. Nothing for Somethings makes no sense to me. Love 99 would use me to make money and only thanks me for it – well, Love 99, you’re not welcome; and I won’t continue working for you for nothing. In my world of thinking free things are of little or no value. People simply do not respect a person or thing they can get without paying something – something for something.

LA LOVE 99 SEAT THEATRE vs LA ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION

LA LOVE 99 SEAT THEATRE vs LA ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION – my thoughts The actors and stage-managers’ union met yesterday. The union members present voted overwhelmingly not to support LA AEA UNION’s plan to implement minimum wage contracts in 99 seat theatres. In short, union members voted to continue working for nothing. LA Actors and Stage Managers LOVE working for NOTHING! On the whole AEA members are some of the brightest people working in this business; but when we’re dumb we are really dumb. I gotta give it to LOVE 99/AEA members for laying down the best cajoling line of bullshit I’ve heard in a long time – it was most effective on the soft hearted/brains of most union members in the room. Love 99 has forced LA EQUITY and Equity NATIONAL to set aside implementation and enter discussions as to what will be implemented and when, if ever, that implementation will take place. LA AEA members who bought what LOVE 99 is selling are completely ignoring the national trend of business and government, owners/managers, to gut the effectiveness of unions to protect the best interest of their members. Love 99 members want the union but only on their terms.

THOUGHTS ON SEX AND SEXUAL PREFERENCE

MY THOUGHTS ON SEX AND SEXUAL PREFERENCE In most things important to life I would test to the right or left of the great hump. I’ve always found it impossible to follow the crowd – something about doing what everyone else is doing is repulsive to me. I don’t assume what I’m doing is better just different. The reason for my taking the way less traveled is that I like to think – I like creating and identifying choices and then choosing which way I travel. When I’m told I have no choice my reply is fuck you – that leads me to the thought I’m sharing: sex and sexual preference. I see the sex act as a purely biological and psychological function. In addition to the drive to procreate it’s good for the nervous and immune system and it feels damn good; without sex, life would have never been born and there would be no such thing as happiness. The biological/psychological sexual preference of all life is diverse – it is not clumped together in the middle of the great hump. Preference can be found at very point along the bell curve. The genitalia of humans do not predict nor define sexual preference. Males are not locked into preferring females as sexual partners; females are not locked into preferring males. The tendency, the inclination, however, is for one genitalia to choose its opposite; so most humans will be somewhere in the hump but not all in the middle. Those on the slopes of the curve are just as normal just as human as those who see themselves in the middle of the hump. http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC