I never thought I would actually live and experience the world that I learned about in U.S. I had such strong hope that we would finally break the glass ceiling, and then all of that hope dropped to the floor. But now as I read that slogan it feels more like an insult, because I hate that on that day, we took a huge step back in history, erasing all the progress that we had made. I used to trust in this statement because I had hope and trusted in our country that we would make progress. I look at my NFL Patriots t-shirt and I spot the slogan “WE ARE ALL PATRIOTS” printed at the bottom. The win revealed that in Trump’s America, disabled people shouldn’t be seen as human, they should be mocked, called weak, even dehumanized. The win also revealed the attitudes of the country that elected him. On November 8 th, 2016 (if they hadn’t done so before), America solidified the stigma surrounding disability by electing a man to be President of the United States who had (on a multitude of instances) put disabled people in a negative light, making them seem worthless. His arms gesticulate in stiff, jerky motions his head and shoulders are drawn back his eyes pop as though in surprise and his mouth is open with lips thrust forward. Image description: Donald Trump, wearing a red tie and standing at a microphone with a large group of people behind him holding Trump campaign posters, impersonates a reporter with a disability.
Blog post by Gillian Card, Durham, North Carolina, 2017.
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