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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If you have common cause with Hitler, you’re doing it wrong.
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
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.
Poor Baby.
What a horrible thing to say about black people.
So Obama was the first disabled president. Got it.
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?
Life is hard.
Being stupid makes it harder.
Regardless of color.
The racist perfesser is saying blacks are inferior.
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
I get the sick feeling John Roberts would agree.
“Disability” - as in too stupid, too immoral, too slow (can’t move fast), what?
So the USA is the WESTERN Culture version of Zimbabwe???
Because my Norwegian ancestors were some real badasses and we don’t take sh*t from nobody.
what a crock of sh_t. She used her education to dream up this tripe.
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.
“Blackness, of course, is not, by itself, an impairment,” Paul-Emile writes.
What follows is therefore garbage.
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.
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