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onethatcares

(16,254 posts)
2. I'm old enough to remember
Mon Mar 4, 2024, 06:17 PM
Mar 4

my uncle, coal region John, complaining that the passage of Medicare would give those people the same rights as his lazy ass had for being caucasiien.

I've never forgotten his bigotted ways.

P.S. his job in 1964 was picking up dead animals off the highways and byways of the state of Pennsylvania. There was no access to healthcare at that time

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