The Voiceless Minority

Above is an image of a logo from a movie titled Patrice: The Movie. It is yellow and in large print.  Happy, fabulous Friday. Before I get into today’s post, I want to thank everyone for their support and amplification of my articles and the entire Voiceless Minority community recently. Your support and encouragement inspires me and all the other writers who have helped amplify the voice of the voiceless. Several years ago, I wrote a blog, which I will link at the end of this article. It is entitled I Can Write, But It Is Time for You to React. I am happy to report you have taken up that call to action in more ways than I could have imagined, and I am eternally grateful for your support. Okay, enough with inflating your head as you are reading this. Now, down to the fun stuff. Last September, Patrice: The Movie premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Shortly after, in October, it premiered on HULU. I will link an article written by Amy Kuperinsky for Disability Scoop that outlin...

All men were created equal. This is what it says in our Constitution. Discounting the irony in which it doesn’t mention the 3/5 slave’s clause. This is otherwise a good concept. It essentially implies that no matter one’s race, creed, religious belief, nationality, or any other distinguishing characteristic in America, they should be granted an equal opportunity. I have written a blog, which discussed a little bit of a piece of landmark legislation known as the American With Disabilities Act. However, today while doing some early morning reading, I was forced to ask myself this question, “Have we come all that far?”        This year on July 26, The Americans with Disabilities Act will celebrate 23 years. It is almost a quarter-century old. It’s almost at the point where it has to make a significant life decision and stop relying on mommy and daddy but has changed for people with disabilities since the Act? My argument is that on the surface, improv...

  Happy Monday, everyone. We hope you enjoyed our post from Friday. Today, we will discuss a rather disturbing trend. Last October, Disability Sco T op published an article entitled How School Shooting Fears Led to A 10-Year-old Boy with Autism Being Handcuffed. Due to the publication's limited number of free views per month, I will summarize the article below before I comment on the issues it raises. In 2023, after saying to a teacher that he should bring a gun to school so that kids would listen to him, it would come out later that the student wasn't referring to using a firearm in the typical way. Instead, he wanted to ride it like a horse so that kids could laugh with him. While this does not make sense to most people, we must understand that people with Autism have a different way of thinking about things sometimes, and they may not understand the impact of their words. Especially given the context in which they say certain things. America has always been on edge, and righ...