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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 we are going to generalize why stop at America. Being black seems to be a “disability” worldwide.


41 posted on 01/19/2018 9:15:33 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: rjsimmon
I saw that one. The article did note there was a class system in Ghana(?)....but not based on race.

I think the HBC educated folks are going to be in for a surprise.

There is a noticeable difference between people who have immigrated from the various countries in Africa compared to blacks born in the USA.....I'll take the immigrant attitude any day of the week.

42 posted on 01/19/2018 9:15:41 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Acting like a savage and expecting Democrats to improve your life is a disability.


43 posted on 01/19/2018 9:17:33 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey Kimani: Try reading the info in this post:

“Why some African Americans are moving to Africa”

Take obama with you.

Thanks


44 posted on 01/19/2018 9:22:38 AM PST by Mouton (The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let’s see...

There are 8 times as many white people, as black but...

nearly 45% of Welfare families are black. You always hear “there are more whites on welfare than blacks”, which is true, but not 8 times as many. That would be a fair comparison.

So... nearly half of all Black families are on welfare.

Government employees are over 1/3 black. Some places are 75% black employees.

Black people are 1/8th of the population, but are nearly 1/2 of all Welfare, sitting on their asses.

And have over 1/3 of all government jobs.

All being paid for by working white families.

Who are the slaves now?


45 posted on 01/19/2018 9:28:51 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: rjsimmon

Good for them.


46 posted on 01/19/2018 9:30:52 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: rjsimmon
From the article: "You might not have electricity, but you won't get killed by the police either."

Given that there are five times as many Caucasians in the US as there are Blacks, and given that the Black crime-rate is ten times that of the Caucasian crime rate, there should be twice as many Blacks killed by police as Caucasians.

The reality is that there are only half as many Blacks killed by police. One-fourth as many as there should be statistically.

Cops actually treat Black criminals with kid gloves. THAT is the problem. It hurts the Black victims of Black crime, as well.

But maybe cops never shoot anyone in Ghana.

47 posted on 01/19/2018 9:41:52 AM PST by ChicagahAl (I am Henry Bowman. You should be, too.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s a self-inflicted disability - at least she recognizes it’s a disability even as she ignores the Truth about why....


48 posted on 01/19/2018 9:41:58 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives......;-))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Kimani Paul-Emile just wants a disability placard to hang from her mirror so she can park in Handicapped spaces.


49 posted on 01/19/2018 9:49:36 AM PST by Rebelbase (1/12/18 read the word 'shithole' more times in one day than in my entire life up to that that point.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wanting to turn an entire race of people into zoo animals. This should a serious crime. What an incredibly wicked woman!


50 posted on 01/19/2018 10:02:29 AM PST by KyCats
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is there evidence that it is a disability in Haiti, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, and the Congo too?


51 posted on 01/19/2018 10:06:29 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She might be right.

Watch Judge Judy. A whole bunch of People who show up are Black and a number of them seem to be on SS Disability.
(There are a bunch of Caucasians as well, but the ratio doesn’t seem to be a high)

Oh yeah, there is never a Cane, Walker or Wheelchair in sight. Good old Judge Judy always asks them what their Disability is and they always have a Deer in Headlights look for a second or two before answering.

Of course that is just an observation. I DVR the Show and when I need a laugh I watch it, especially since two of it’s biggest Sponsors are SS Disability Lawyer Dr. Phil LaTour (who is also a Psychologist, wink wink) and my favorite, Ambulance chasing Lawyer (I’ll fight for you) Larry H. Parker.


52 posted on 01/19/2018 10:20:06 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Shithole".)
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Affirmative Action law has designated minorities as inferior and the hammers of the federal government will force you to bend your knee to let minorities ahead of you in line. I don’t believe this in the least. The law is wrong.


53 posted on 01/19/2018 10:25:23 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: USCG SimTech

What a low-expectation, keep-the-brother-down LIB loser. What a racist.


54 posted on 01/19/2018 10:30:09 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Imagine, people pay a lot of tuition money to pay this moron’s salary!


55 posted on 01/19/2018 10:32:54 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism us truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One, a ‘disability’ largely brought upon yourselves and a ‘disability’ because most of you were and are still gullable enough to believe the nonsensical BS that comes from the political party (yes, the party of slavery) that sought to keep you in chains...or have you forgotten that when you sold your souls, so to speak, Kimani Paul-Emile?


56 posted on 01/19/2018 10:39:37 AM PST by cranked
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

While I wouldn’t wish a physical disability on anyone, she ought to feel what it’s like and to see how the rest of the world (consciously or unconsciously) regards disabled people. Then she would see how utterly idiotic her assertion really is.


57 posted on 01/19/2018 10:46:02 AM PST by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Way to keep the colored people down lady. Democrats own it.


58 posted on 01/19/2018 10:48:38 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What this really is about is reparations. And what a gigantic insult to non-victim-status blacks. Geesh.


59 posted on 01/19/2018 10:53:26 AM PST by KJC1 (Illegals: One hand out and the other one flipping us the bird)
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To: KJC1
"What this really is about is reparations. And what a gigantic insult to non-victim-status blacks. Geesh. "

Yup. All Blacks get a monthly racism check paid for by your tax dollars.(Money taken from you)

60 posted on 01/19/2018 11:17:24 AM PST by blam
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