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In reply to the discussion: Schools must provide sports for disabled, US says [View all]FailureToCommunicate
(14,007 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 25, 2013, 07:21 PM - Edit history (1)
DU members.
Some of the posters use phrases or arguments that echo ones used to resist previous civil rights progress.
Maybe folks should spend some time actually reading up on Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall, Title IX, and the disability rights movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Disability_rights_movement ) and THEN reflect on which group they STILL do not believe should have the same rights they enjoy.
I'm guessing most here would say that (especially) public money should not be spent to benefit only the well-off, white, straight, male, able-bodied citizens.
These were long fought struggles by progressives of their eras. Let's not stop moving towards a 'more perfect union' in our era.
We can all do better.
-FTC