Today, I am going to plagiarize the words of Martin Luther King Jr. when he gave the famous speech Free at Last. As he spoke that day in Washington D.C. he told how the Negros had been given a check with insufficient funds. Today, I am going to tell you how the diabetics of this nation have been given the same check, and the medical system will never acknowledge the truth about diabetes because that would cause a drop in profits. However, God gave the insight for two men to provide the perfect treatment for diabetes, the natural approach with insulin injections. About 90 years ago, two men, provided the mechanism for diabetics to escape the dreaded consequences of a slow and painful death. .

“In the fall of 1920 Dr. Frederick Banting had an idea that would unlock the mystery of the dreaded diabetes disorder. Before this, for thousands of years, a diabetes diagnosis meant wasting away to a certain death. Working at a University of Toronto laboratory in the very hot summer of 1921 Fred Banting and Charles Best were able to make a pancreatic extract which had anti diabetic characteristics,” according to the article The discovery of Insulin: A Canadian medical miracle of the 20^th century.

I personally remembered many years ago wasting away. I recalled how my feet shrank and slopped around in my shoes. I remember puking and pooping myself to almost death. So of course, one would wonder with Banting and Best’s discovery why diabetics have not escaped the misery and suffering. With almost a century past, why have drugs been used when every medical researcher knows the whole problem has to do with insulin, and that altering the body with drugs will never suffice?

As a diabetic, I have been treated as a third class citizen, been fired twice, been banned from management opportunities and sent home from work due to diabetic issues that had nothing to do with my ability to do my job. Many diabetics just like me, have been seared in the flames of injustice, a prejudicial attitude.

Here I am following the Christmas of 2009, and diabetics have been enslaved to the medical system and the drug companies, when we should have been granted freedom in 1920. With the attitude toward me and many of my peers who are genuine diabetics, I can not state the words in an eloquent manner. Just the other day, I read the famous speech by Martin Luther King, and I realize his fine words provided to him by God certainly apply to my struggles today – my struggle to free all diabetics from the bondage of the medical system. So I will quote those words from King because they certainly apply to my thoughts today.

“One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

    “In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

 While this passage pointed directly to the establishment of this nation, which refused to treat the Negroes with justice, I think that any race, any man, and one with a disease such as mine has every right to have what anyone else has. No man has a right to act in a prejudicial manner. Even type 2 diabetics can live without drugs. If diet and exercise alone fail, insulin will give them freedom. With insulin, diabetics have no need to fork over all their income to doctors, they have no reason to waste time in the doctors’ offices, and they have every reason to be free from the bondage of the American medical system.

I know many of you today will not want to accept this because you trust doctors more than God. God commands that the gluttonous behavior is a sin, that he commands us to take action. Every great leader has had to take action in order to fulfill God’s promise. For the Negro, Martin Luther King lost his life. But he said it was not the length of your life but the quality of your life that matters, knowing that his assassination had drawn near.

Further, I have no doubt that I too will die of the assassins bullet one day because the establishment is not about to lose profits. If every diabetic took my approach, few would even need to see doctors and they would be a crushing financial blow to the medical personnel who became involved in medicine because they can make lots of money ripping off the consumers.

Like King, I too feel that I have been to the mountain top, and I have seen the promised land. My eyes have seen the truth, even if, others have not seen the truth that has been revealed to me. I am getting older now. I look around me and I see all these young faces. You will hear those older than you tell you many things during the course of your life. Many things told you will be just plain wrong. Beware as I convey my message.

All around me I see evidence that diabetics can live in perfect health. I see it in diabetics who live as ideal examples; I read it in science journals. The truth is everywhere around you. The steps all diabetics need to take are everywhere. So why do we continue to allow the health care professionals to continue allowing diabetics to die at the rate of 500 per day? We as a nation have the most medical mistakes of other industrialized nations. One such mistake happened when the wrong leg was amputated. I went a dentist one time and he planned to extract the wrong tooth. I made a huge fuss.

In a similar manner to King, I look forward to the day doctors will sit down with diabetics like me to discuss how we can do a better job of preserving diabetics’ health, and keeping them from spending a fortune on medical care. I ask all medical practitioners to sit at the table of justice, the table of love, the table of mercy and the table of reason. I ask all of you who have the moral integrity to join me today in my quest for universal justice not only in race, but also for those who suffer from chronic diseases who get fired, sent home from work and banned from promotions simply because they have to inject insulin every two hours. God would never approve of those firings. Will you, and would you?

I am going to again quote King because what he said about the plight of the Negroes also applies to those with chronic diseases.

And I now quote: “And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."