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#Disability Solidarity!
During the 1977 protests that led to signing of the 504 regulations of the 1973 rehabilitation act Black Panthers brought the protesters pizza. Solidarity! 
We know that white supremacy and systemic racism is woven into American culture and history. As disability advocates we believe it is beyond time to take a stand against it. There is no time to lose, because somewhere in America every day, we see people being killed for very little reason other than being profiled for the color of their skin. A black person is killed every 28 hours by a police officer or other people protected by the state. Many of the unarmed victims of these police shootings and extra judicial killings are also people with disabilities. In addition, the criminalization of psychiatric and neurological disabilities has filled jails and prisons with people who need mental health services, the overwhelming majority of whom are Black people and other people of color.
Access Living adds our voice to the chorus of people who say that Black Lives Matter. The world we want to live in is a world where black people have full freedom. None of us will be free until all of us are free.
https://www.accessliving.org/1410ga64
Access Living adds our voice to the chorus of people who say that Black Lives Matter. The world we want to live in is a world where black people have full freedom. None of us will be free until all of us are free.
https://www.accessliving.org/1410ga64
