Uncle Buck on Politics, Policy and Hate

Editorial/Non-Fiction

Political 

Again, it’s the usual things in the course of a lifetime that cause you grief and pain.  In those times you go to your bible, your religion or your God and seek to console or help friends and family.  

I speak of death.  

The death of one of my late Uncle’s wives had us talking, wondering why she, Josefina, with all the insurance she had and with all the children she has, died with so much debt.

I had Skyped Uncle Buck late Saturday night past and asked him about Josefina, her attempt to purchase land and her lust for life.  (Josefina worked with Uncle Buck’s daughter, cousin Bessie when she lived in Los Angeles).  “Boy, listen good, them hate filled krackers in Congress, from the South, who have money, family and blood, our blood, invested in health care want our people dead and broke, not necessarily in that order. Hear me RJ!”

Uncle Buck had his glass full of Jack while speaking to me as Bessie attended to him.  He loves the novelty of Skype but really doesn’t like computers, although he was forced to learn to use them by Bessie.  “Uncle Buck is the death of Josefina a result of societal failure or her own failures?  She was a Corrections Officer with a full disability pension.”

“Yeah RJ, but they treat her different than her coworkers(1), she is a woman, she is of Mexican descent and she was treated by second rate doctors who gave her second rate care.(2)  This is what people don’t see, the hate and prejudice that goes on in hospitals with feigned compassion and a plastic smile.  You can have the same insurance as a white man and still not get the same care.”(3)

“Uncle Buck, how do you know she was discriminated against?”  “RJ, Josefina had a coworker with the same heart problems and high blood pressure issues she did.  Josefina’s coworker had the same insurance but was referred to a different set of Doctors working out of the same hospital and then moved to a facility that specializes in cardiac care.  Josefina is dead, her white coworker alive, why?  Because of the politics of healthcare; laced with hate, hate with a smile.”

“Uncle Buck, are Josefina’s children pursuing any kind of legal action?”  “Too soon to tell RJ, the sting of death is still fresh in their souls as it is in ours.  But even if they have overwhelming proof and I believe Lucinda (Josefina’s daughter) does, it will take years of litigation to get justice for a woman that is dead.  You know what I say is true, your wife RJ died to just that kind of negligence.”  Now the sting of death was renewed fresh in me, as was the anger.

“RJ, I don’t have to tell you how much credible sources have reported on this kind of discrimination from CBS, ABC and CNN, but also the CDC and the World Health Organization, and if those race hating, low life krackers Romeny and Ryan get elected you can be assured they will see to the financial ruin of anyone of color to seize their assets and set up a wage slave class like they have in China and India.”(2) (9)

Uncle Buck took a sip of his Jack Daniels and Jumped on his soap box.  “That Ryan boy he fudges numbers like Bernie Madoff used to do, Ryan is a numbers man…just like Reinhard Heydrich was the numbers man for German National Socialism. (8) 

And just like Heydrich, Ryan plans a ‘final solution’ for Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and healthcare in America…that solution boils down to dead minorities.”

“Uncle Buck, that’s kind of extreme judgment, isn’t it?” “RJ, these people are extremists, the worst kind of extremist, racists and sexists masquerading as public servants.  They are bought and paid for by lobbyists of several ilk, including big oil, insurance companies, multinational corporations and banks.  Their extremist agenda is anti-social, anti-woman, countercultural and anti-American.”

“Though I would tend to agree, I would hesitate to be that extreme without proof, but I do admit, that Romney and Ryan have not given details of any of their plans, only repeal of the Healthcare law, a good law Uncle Buck.” “RJ, boy…you know exactly what they will do, you have a dead wife, a dead father and a brother with cancer being treated in a ‘B’ facility at best, what proof do you need?”

“RJ, just be careful you don’t let them do to your mother what they did to your wife and your daddy.  How many people are living in their cars?  How many people have lost everything they have due to hospitals and bad doctors?  How many people right now are trying to figure out how to live without jobs, without heathcare and some without hope?”

Before I could get a word in edgewise, still dealing with the sting of Uncle Buck’s words he continued.  “Romney is a Mormon, the book of Mormon teaches them to marginalize people of color “because your under the curse of Cain” (4) because you have dark skin.  This marginalization will become national policy, a new institutionalized racism and sexism, codified and made law. (7)  

        Akin, the kracker running for the Senate who articulates ‘legitimate rape, has helped Ryan write anti-healthcare bills that died on the floor of Congress.(5) (6) (9)

These are the people who are running for office, hiding their contempt for the poor, women and minorities under the banner of Government waste.  The only waste in government is Congress itself.  Josefina is only one in thousands of women who will die unless all kinds of changes are made to healthcare, you hear me RJ?”

“I hear you Uncle Buck!” I was hurt and exhausted and Uncle Buck saw that.  “Listen RJ, just do what you must to get the President re-elected.  Because if you don’t the America you now live in will be more like 1948 than 2012 and all the civil and social rights and justice people died and sacrificed for will become wasted.  So straighten up, get yourself ready to fight, one way or the other.  You hear me boy?”

“Yes sir, I hear you?” “Go to bed RJ, you look tired, rest now because you may not have the chance to rest later.”  Uncle Buck called in Bessie, to turn this ‘Skype thang off.'  I was not only sad, but bitter.  The recollection of all the death and pain in my life just made me angry again.  

But the difference is I am resolved to stand more firmly…my Daddy did.

1) http://www.naswdc.org/diversity/women/womenhealth.asp

2) http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6494540n

3) http://cnsnews.com/news/article/white-house-says-obamacare-stops-insurance-companies-discriminating-against-women

4)http://www.christiandefense.org/mor_black.htm
5) http://askmormongirl.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/what-do-mormons-believe-about-african-americans/
6) http://www.cc.utah.edu/~njb4/mormonnegative.html
7) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810998,00.html
8) http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERheydrich.htm
9) http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/26344/#.UGvYDJjA91E

RJ