I guess I like Oprah, I think. I don’t watch her much. Well I am not a stay at home mum, neither am I unemployed. Oh. Sorry so used to saying that when people ask me if I watched such and such soap opera. Let’s back up a bit. I just got laid off recently, like millions of Americans. For the first time I really don’t feel bad about my misfortune. Okay I feel bad but I don’t feel like a loser. The good thing about all of this is that I actually have time to take better care of myself. Now only if I had some money to do that with. I have insurance but it seems every time I go to the doctor I end up receiving a bill in the mail stating I owe $100 dollars there,$230 here. What is up with that? Sometimes I just don’t go. I know I should. I have a serious problem with sugar and salt intake. I don’t know how my mum and Dad handle it. My dad is retired. My mum is on the line with the diabetes thing, you know? I’m sure thousands of Americans stay away from the doctor because of money. On one of Oprah’s many shows which come included with Dr. Oz and Dr. Green. They are like batteries, I think.
Well her segment was on “Diabetes the silent killer" and she was on a mission. Not the usual mission, a real mission, like the one where she trots off to South Africa, like water buffalo crossing a river. I’m not suggesting that she looks like a water buffalo, it’s just that when they make up their mind to go, they just go for it, alligators and all. She usually gets this way when she is discussing serious matters regarding her" people”, I just said that cause it sounds cool, I think she’d make a good leader; Okay maybe not, this isn’t exactly a positive article but it’s not a negative one either. So forget the presidency for now. She is concerned about minorities in American, especially black Americans. Yes those People. And I do believe she is genuinely concerned.
So anyway she directed her worries or concerns toward a group of Black Church Ladies from the good old town of Dayton, Ohio. When Oprah gets that come on now Folks, look in her Eye, well let’s just say you feel like your twelve years old again. What’s wrong with these silly old women? Don’t they know what’s going on?!!! Diabetes is an epidemic!!!! Oprah says, “It’s annihilating the African American community literally!!!" Well. The only problem here is that it’s not so much about black Americans not taking the time out of their busy schedule because they don’t feel like it or don’t realize they are going to drop dead. Sorry I meant to say be, “silently killed." from an over abundance of Cheeseburgers and fries which costs only one dollar. So if I gave a homeless guy $2 a day, he might be probed to diabetes but he also wouldn’t starve to death.
So what are we talking about here well apparently what wasn’t talked about on the show. Money! Hello! Oh yeah the thing I never seem to have enough of. What needed to be mentioned was that blacks and Latino Americans are uninsured at a rate almost 3 times higher than white Americans. In 2008 at least 40% of blacks were uninsured at some point. This also included black Americans making over $84,000 a year.
Now let’s not forget heredity. African Americans are twice as likely as their white counterpart to have type II diabetes. Many of the ladies from the Dayton Ohio church had type II diabetes according to Dr. Ian Smith. Dr. Smith is an African American doctor AKA now linked to the Oprah posse or battery backup. Dr. Smith went on to conclude that bad habits are hard to change. Black Americans don’t want to change their eating habits and are quite stubborn about it. He made a comment that this disease is about attitudes, as Oprah looked on so badly wanting to pull out the switch she snapped from her very own tree earlier that morning, to whip them with.
Okay so I will not stop by McDonalds to get my biweekly fix of cocaine French fries. Yep I agree, they must be Laced with something. Let me go to the gym instead seeing as I’m no longer working my 12 hour shift. I think I have 2 more days of insurance left. I don’t think I can fit the doctor in. He’ll only prescribe me unaffordable meds for one thing or another, which I probably need. You know this is all my mothers fault, they should have her on Oprah and I get to pick the switch and Oprah gets the first 5 licks for being clueless.
