So is no one going to talk about how Madison Cawthorne was instrumental in stoking insurrection or are nondisabled people unfamiliar with white supremacy in the disability community?

For all that talk about calling racism a disability you don’t seem to want to deal with it...
Disabled BIPOC have been raising the alarm on this for years but people fail to listen. White supremacy is a part of the disability community no matter how much you want to brush these things aside.

The fact is that any POC with a disability on this app has been met with as
Much racism from disabled peers as anyone else.

Do you think the who’re woman stabbing people at target from her wheelchair during the BLM protests was an isolated incident?

We have been trying to sound the alarm for years but because you’re used to treating disabled people
Like children, you don’t believe such complex systems could operate within the disability community.

I personally have heard such statements from white disabled people like “the ADA is as bad as Jim Crowe.” And “being disabled is the same as being Black.” There are disability
Community leaders caught on camera saying “Democrats care more about illegals than disabled people.” And yet, you all don’t recognize any of this.

Madison Cawthorne is just as culpable, but I don’t see him being held to account any time soon. Because you all have given him
The tools to escape it because you all have a hard time even admitting these things exist. And which system is going to hold accountable a man who “stood in is wheelchair to ‘inspire’ Americans?”
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