'Why is no one asking Black disabled people how they personally feel about this situation?'
. Those diagnoses often led to disabled people — particularly women and people of color, historically speaking — losing their rights and bodily autonomy."You could be diagnosed insane, and you would lose rights based on that label," Ojewumi tells POPSUGAR. Calling out ableist language, therefore, isn't just about being sensitive to other people's feelings.
As those voices and reactions took center stage, cultural and racial divisions came to the forefront."I immediately noticed who was leading the conversations about the slur . . . and the narratives that would be created," she says."I anticipated backlash and infighting between both the Black community and the disabled community, but more so the conflict when you're simultaneously both Black and disabled at the time.
Racism is pervasive in the disabled community, Ojewumi says; she's experienced it firsthand. In her experience, white disabled voices — like white voices in other contexts — wield the power and the platform. In this particular conversation, silencing Black disabled people means important nuance is lost; more broadly, that continued loss of voice and platform can amount to erasure of Black disabled people as a whole.
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