Renee,

        I am not sure that we are in same exact social situation as racial
minorities to the extent that we, as a group, have little survival lore.
Other
minority members have entire families and lineage from which to draw folk
lore and survival skills. Let's face it, disabilities and other groups,
such as those with nontraditional sexual preferences(orientation ?) are
after-thoughts in these laws.

Bobby





>The Martin Luther King Day celebration is very meaningful to me because I
>know that disability legislation such as the ADA would never have been passed
>without the contribution of his civil rights work and predecessors like the
>Civil Rights Acts.
>
>However, I am disheartened that in all of the discussions of discrimination
>and segregation, people with disabilities are never mentioned. Oprah did a
>very good show on racial stereotypes and which group of ethnic minorities had
>the least power. Of course, people with disabilities were never mentioned.
>
>I think as a group we need to make this observance our own in whatever manner
>possible.