What are they thinking?

Here Kadizzle sits deep in the south.  Kadizzle just completed his first visit to a nice nursing home.  Ned has an aunt there we will drive to the Houston area for a memorial service.  Ned and Kadizzle ate breakfast at the nursing facility.  Every person in the care of the facility was white.  Almost every person that was giving the care was black.  Now think about this.  You are white, you have been mean and nasty to black people your entire life.  Now you are an old fart and guess who is going to take care of you?  That's right, the very people who you did everything in your power to drive into poverty and misery.  To Kadizzle's amazement the black staff was so nice, and so accommodating.  All the old white people seemed to love the staff and everything was peachy. 

This all brings back memories of George Wallace.  George Wallace sold racism like few before him.  Remember when Wallace got shot in the back?  Guess who took care of George and pushed him around in a wheelchair for years.  Yup, a black man.  As mean and nasty as old George Wallace was he finally came to grips with his racism and gave it up.  Before he died he was a civil rights advocate and his daughter went on to be a good person. 

The long and short of it is when you get in a bind you never know who you will need.  In the south you can pretty well bet when you are old and shot up some black person will be your care taker.  Do you want the person you abuse today to be your care taker?  Do you want to let the black person pushing your wheelchair in the nursing home to know you voted for Roy Moore?  Very strange world we live in. 

A long time ago when old Kadizzle worked in southern West Virginia in the mining camps, black people and white people seemed to get along pretty well.  There was a simple reason.  Even the dumbest brick could realize that if you were underground and a rock fell on you and pinned you, it might be a black man that had to get the rock off you.  So no matter how stupid you were you did not insult or defame the black people you worked with. 

The nursing home tour this morning was like a preview of the future.  Kadizzle really had never been in one of these places.  This one was pretty upscale and had a lot of amenities.  Lord help you if you go to some busted up place because the Republican stole your social security.  The rich can afford nice black people, but it seems certain all the rednecks might end up in some sorrowful place where the help is not well paid.   Imagine and old Klan  member in a nursing home staffed by black people.  There is some sort of strange justice in this world and the racist may have their comeuppance.

Everyone at the home seemed to be friendly and doing pretty well.  Two old goats were sitting out in the sun smoking cigars.  Everyone had wheels hooked on them somehow even if seemingly they did not need them.  The staff must somehow convince each tenant that at any moment they might collapse. If you were not in a wheelchair they had you push a walker.   Some old coot went by pushing his walker faster than Kadizzle could run.  There were many people pushing walkers who probably should have been pulling golf carts.  Several people seemed to be in the home because of sheer laziness.  This could happen to Kadizzle.  What are you in for?  Oh, I just got to lazy to cook my own breakfast or make the bed.  At this point Kadizzle has no made up his mind.  The two choices if it ever comes to that are ask someone to shoot me or join the gang at the home.  All things considered the inmates did not seem to have it so bad.  Boredom would be the overwhelming problem, but a good case of dementia or Alzheimer would solve that.  In summary be nice to everyone, you never know who will have to pick you up off the floor or leave you there.