My Best Friend called me and said:

“Rebecca, I get what y’all are saying on twitter, but no. Y’all need to make this shit accessible because we don’t have time. And yes, this is your responsibility. It doesn’t hurt you to make this accessible...”

Yikes and ouch!

I’m sitting with this. I don’t disagree with it. I‘m now realizing accessibility in a new way. It’s not about saying people don’t “understand” or are not “smart”. It’s about creating ways for people to identify what they already know but may not fully recognize.

Being enlightened is not always learning something new. It’s about awakening something in you that’s always been there and never activated. When I’m enlightened, it’s not because I didn’t know it, it’s just that I couldn’t recognize it as such.

It’s the development of language. This is why Toni Morrison stated that language is something we DO. It’s a function that not only needs to be engaged, but needs to be accessible for folks to participate in. We need to clean up terms. Accessibility is one of them.