this week’s discussion based on Lukin’s research on Disability and Blackness, raised many cases that I’ve seen in the recent years that deal with #blacklivesmatter #AllLivesMatter #AllLivesDidntMatter . This phenomenon serves our community with an outlet to express the multiple ways in which black lives have been mistreated, judged, and even killed for no justifying reason, but because of the color of their skin. Like Lukin’s research states, “many African-Americans consider being black as having a disability,…” (page 309) referring to the little to no respect that disabled bodies experience is the same respect black people have been experiencing for many years. The joining of civil rights groups is a foreshadow of awareness that hashtags like #blacklivesmatter #alllivesmatter #alllivesdidntmatter can bring. Educating our community of the many times that even our own government has accepted this idea of division between “us” (Americans) versus “them” (immigrants) or “us” (non-colored people) vs. “them” (colored people). Pictures like the ones posted above, using the hashtags like, #blacklivesmatter #AllLivesMatter #AllLivesDidntMatter, will ultimately raise awareness in ways that will bring unity. Some stories like the ones above are told in the news, but most of the detrimental stories are kept under the rug. Like Galloways mentions, “we [need] to support each other…It’s that kind of awareness that’s beginning to happen between the different groups.” (page 311) That encourages us as a people to never stop trying. We must continue to fight for human rights.
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