You know what’s interesting.

This is one of the first time I’ve heard a black celeb mention disability—

In the midst of a pandemic that has claimed the lives of 120,000 lives, primarily black and brown.

During an uprising fighting police brutality against black folk. 30-50% https://twitter.com/ynb/status/1274867607473012736
Of which are disabled or have disabilities.

Person to person ableism is a blunt weapon. You’re never just harming the people you mean to hit. It’s like being fatphobic again someone you don’t like but telling your fat friend that you didn’t mean them because they’re
Actually pretty for a fat person.

There is a reason there are rarely appeals to black Hollywood for inclusion of black disabled people, and this is one of the reasons why.

By the way, because of medical racism and bias, Black women are some of the most likely to develop
Disabilities as they age. You didn’t just lob ableism at a racist to delegitimize him, you lobbed it at every person who struggles in the same way he does physically.

By the by, the person trump was mocking in that clip was a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. What’s his name?
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