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Being black in America is a ‘disability,’ black law professor argues
The College Fix ^ | January 19, 2018 | by KYLE PERISIC

Posted on 01/19/2018 8:37:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

A black law professor argues that African Americans should embrace the notion that being black in America is a disability as a new legal strategy toward enacting protections for the black community against unconscious bias, stereotyping and structural inequality.

Kimani Paul-Emile, an associate professor of law at Fordham University and associate director of its law school’s Center on Race, Law & Justice, argues that while Africans Americans might initially spurn the “blackness as disability” label, it can actually be a wise courtroom plan.

The Americans with Disabilities Act defines “disability” as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such individual.”

“Blackness, of course, is not, by itself, an impairment,” Paul-Emile writes.

Paul-Emile listed many reasons for black peoples’ perceived disabilities, including “facing increased likelihood, relative to Whites, of living in poverty, attending failing schools, experiencing discrimination in housing, being denied a job interview, being stopped by the police, being killed during a routine police encounter, receiving inferior medical care, living in substandard conditions and in dangerous and/or polluted environments, being un- or underemployed, receiving longer prison sentences, and having a lower life expectancy.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: chatforum; education; race; racecard; society
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you have common cause with Hitler, you’re doing it wrong.


21 posted on 01/19/2018 8:53:34 AM PST by relictele
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So, according to her, Barack Obama is disabled. Condi Rice is disabled, Colin Powell is disabled, etc. And she is saying she is disabled. I am finding out each day that the black community really hates everyone who isn’t black, and they seek to destroy or take from everyone who isn’t Black. Kind of like terrorism


22 posted on 01/19/2018 8:53:46 AM PST by realcleanguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No it is not. Having an unshakable attitude that you can never win because of what ‘other people’ don’t like, IS a disability. That’s how you hobble or weaken your self from within.


23 posted on 01/19/2018 8:53:47 AM PST by lee martell
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To: ilovesarah2012

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/african-americans-moving-africa-180116092736345.html


24 posted on 01/19/2018 8:55:32 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Poor Baby.


25 posted on 01/19/2018 8:56:49 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a horrible thing to say about black people.


26 posted on 01/19/2018 8:57:58 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So Obama was the first disabled president. Got it.


27 posted on 01/19/2018 8:58:01 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: bert

It can be logically argued that inequality precipitated slavery and continues to burden the American black people
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The truth that none dare speak. Why weren’t the Norwegians ever taken as slaves?


28 posted on 01/19/2018 8:58:25 AM PST by LydiaLong
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To: dirtboy

Life is hard.

Being stupid makes it harder.

Regardless of color.


29 posted on 01/19/2018 8:58:54 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It's an asset if you have Education, proper Diction, Presentation.
30 posted on 01/19/2018 8:58:56 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The racist perfesser is saying blacks are inferior.


31 posted on 01/19/2018 8:59:54 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Associate Professor of Law
Associate Director and Head of Domestic Programs and Initiatives at Fordham Law School’s Center on Race, Law & Justice
Faculty Co-Director of the Fordham Law School Stein Center for Law & Ethics

clearly she is disabled


32 posted on 01/19/2018 9:00:24 AM PST by Jolla
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I get the sick feeling John Roberts would agree.


33 posted on 01/19/2018 9:00:26 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Disability” - as in too stupid, too immoral, too slow (can’t move fast), what?


34 posted on 01/19/2018 9:01:22 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: realcleanguy

So the USA is the WESTERN Culture version of Zimbabwe???


35 posted on 01/19/2018 9:01:45 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: LydiaLong

Because my Norwegian ancestors were some real badasses and we don’t take sh*t from nobody.


36 posted on 01/19/2018 9:02:36 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: dirtboy

what a crock of sh_t. She used her education to dream up this tripe.


37 posted on 01/19/2018 9:03:02 AM PST by Pilated (.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is no white privilege.

There is black privilege.

Otherwise, these half-black fools like Kaepernick & Uhbama would choose to be “white” - half white genetically, raised by whites, etc. Yet, they choose to be “black” because THAT is where the privilege lies.


38 posted on 01/19/2018 9:04:36 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Americans with Disabilities Act defines “disability” as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such individual.”

Blackness, of course, is not, by itself, an impairment,” Paul-Emile writes.

What follows is therefore garbage.

39 posted on 01/19/2018 9:08:05 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This ugly-a$$ thing is benefiting royally from being black. it got a job that would not be open to people who know what it means to work for a living.


40 posted on 01/19/2018 9:15:14 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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