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Date: | Tue, 3 Jun 1997 03:04:09 -0400 |
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The Electric Edge is the on-line version of the Disability Rag magazine.
You can find it at http://www.iglou.com/why/edge/
The current issue has a good article on assisted suicide and the
disabled. The following is a brief excerpt of an article about the
recent controversy over the FDR memorial.
- Mark
People often find it easier to be a result of the past
than a cause of the future!
excerpt from http://www.iglou.com/why/edge/
Was FDR great because he was disabled? Did disability forge his
character?
Should he be celebrated because we can look to him as a disabled man
who made good?
Is disability simply one aspect of a person, like hair color, or does
having a disability inform one's being on some essential level?
Replace "disability" in the sentences above with "woman," "gay,"
''African American:" Society has heard these other debates. Do people
realize crips are now doing the same thing?
Are we a group that faces discrimination in the same way as
traditional minorities -- say, Blacks and Jews? Those of us who call
ourselves disability activists may think so. But a lot of people still
don't see it.
"I became a member of a minority group called the disabled,"
Presidential hopeful Bob Dole told a meeting of African-American
journalists in Nashville during the campaign last fall. ''And I gained
an understanding of hardship." He'd been advised the I'm
sensitive-because-I've -suffered message would play well to
minorities.
The advice was optimistic. More than one black journalist said Dole's
message was "a big stretch."
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