Access Denied

 Okay Lovelies, bare with me;


    I am pretty fired up about a recent discussion I had regarding the leveled curb. I was asked if it would be acceptable to instead install small narrow curb leveling ramps made of plastic.


No.


    I made myself clear. The point was accessibility for all. Little ramps and little accommodations are a miserable placation of my concerns. And they are not just for me. The members of my condo community are aging. It might even be that most people in the market for a condo are aging. Accessibility is clearly going to be an ongoing issue.


    I was unmoving, even though the individual sent to talk to me made me uncomfortable. I will continue to stand by this issue of equanimity. For Heaven's sake, it's not like I'm asking the world. I'm asking that all residents be treated the same. It might be true that residents of mine and the other building involved do not pay dues to the association quite as high as some of the others. I suspect this is why they keep trying to brush me away like a mosquito.

    That is no excuse for quietly saying that some people matter and others do not. Anyone could fall off a curb, break a hip, and sue the Association. Access to legal representation is equal--for now. How dare they assume that I could be easily silenced?

    Being female is not a disability. Nor does it qualify as a "break" in someone's life, so I'm not sure it's right to say that my being a woman makes me more disabled or more broken. Nor does it make me more worthy of a blog audience! The written word is another equalizer, praise be.

    That said, I am using this platform to vent and possibly drum up support (if only para-socially) for my cause. The Disabled community are not invisible. They cannot be ignored and must not be. To quote the brilliant Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who was also wrongfully silenced and ignored for championing equality--"injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." (emphasis mine).

    And that, lovelies, is that. I'm not going to bow to a burnt offering of "just enough". I asked for and will accept no less than justice.

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