RACISM IS EVIL AND DESTRUCTIVE

ABLEISM IS JUST AS BAD – BUT MOST DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT IS

Every time a city says it cannot afford to make a restroom, pool, park, bus station, etc accessible -- it is blatantly discriminating against people with disabilities.

Each time government says it is impractical, impossible, implausible and unfeasible to retrofit for accessibility -- it is practicing ableism.

Ableism is the evil equal to racism.

Racism = Discrimination against people of color that causes great harm, pain and death.

Ableism = Discrimination against people with disabilities (PWDs) that causes great harm, pain and death.

Racism continues to exist, but to everyone with half a brain or half a heart, it is considered wrong and terrible.

Before the Civil Rights Movement, racism reigned as the most ugly, irrational and dangerous chapters in American history.

Ableism (tragically) flourishes and expands.

Mayors think nothing of labeling PWDs as being burdensome and too costly to accommodate.

City Commissioners use pejorative language such as "wheelchair bound" and refuse to fix sidewalks and create safe crosswalks.

City Managers think nothing of dehumanizing PWDs by labeling them as “confined to a wheelchair” while refusing to support innovative programs that would support equity and inclusion.

America will be a better place when we understand the horrors of ableism.

We all must join together to fight racism and ableism.