Did the executives at the Alabama Mercedes plant know that in 2011; Venus Colley-Mims an Alabama native and citizen of Montgomery had found a lump in her breast and because she was one of the thousands of Alabamans and millions of Americans who are denied and deprived of medical and access to health care would two years later in 2013 die from stage 4 cancer?
Did any of the executives, business entrepreneurs, preachers, pastors, faith leaders, educators, football coaches, the media, and politicians of the Alabama status quo and its civilization know that a subject of their society, a black woman Venus Colley-Mims was in dire need of health care that it took the stench of her rotting breast to attract the attention of an ER doctor, at of all places Momtgomery's Baptist Health Center which had been complicit in the generation of her cancer for a tragic and late referral for the diagnosis of her stage 4 cancer?
No they didn't and their ignorance isn't indictment. But the question the death of Venus Colly-Mims ask and what its formulations reveals is their culpability.
God, as preached by the countless churches lettering the Alabama landscape, contrary to their preaching didn't kill Venus Colley-Mims in all her faces, colors, gender and age anymore than has God rewarded those Alabamians privileged with access to medical and health care. What however killed Venus Colley -Mims is a type of ahumanisitic and misanthropic suppositions held by Alabama's status quo that is against and anti-expanding Medicaid and its life-saving benefit.
Venus Colley-Mims might be dead but our polemics against those barbaric, savage, and cruel purveyors of those ahumanistic and misanthropic suppositions that murdered her declares that it wasn't in vain. Just as we are expected to make of the instruction, that the blood of Abel cries out in indictment of Cain every time we are confronted with its historicity. Such is our polemic against Alabama and it's well fed status quo. That the measure of its humaness isn't in how it kills and murders it's Abel's but we know it does it and no amount of shiny Mercedes plants will conceal the fact and barbarity of its status quo.
By William Thorpe
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