Random Thoughts at The Intersection of Race, White Privilege, and Disability Rights Advocacy
Black letters on a white field read "No one is asking you to apologize for being privileged; people want you to stop using your privilege in ways that require an apology." Ilana Alazzeh I've spent the weekend thinking about Ted Landsmark , Danuta Danielsson , Edward Crawford , the miseducation of KKK children, the dominant and at times toxic culture in disability rights activism, and what happens when marginalized people intersect with white privilege. Occasionally I think in pictures. So let me share the people I'm discussing in the way they came to mind as their lives intersected with mine. In 1976, when I was 15 years old, Stanley Forman took a photograph during the fight to desegregate Boston schools that won a Pulitzer Prize the following year. That day Ted Landsmark became the victim of white protesters like teenager Joseph Rakes, who tried to assault the civil rights attorney with a flagpole bearing the American flag. Pulitzer Prize winning photo "The So...