The Roving Activist’s Blog

Its just after 7, and the Natiton of Rochester is on the bus on the way to Chicago! We are joining 500 ADAPT members, blowing into the Windy City to FREE OUR PEOPLE!!! I’ll keep you updated!

Today is the Day!!! Join the Blogswarm against the Telethon!!!

Speak out against Jerry Lewis and his MDA Telethon! Don’t let him put the face on who and what we are. When I was a kid, I remember watching the telethon and getting mad because here was this guy trying to get money by making people feel sorry for us, putting a guilt trip on people so they could give money to help those “poor pathetic cripples” so that a cure could be found. As I said, I would get mad, but my anger was futile because I didn’t know what to do with my anger. I did not know of a Disability Rights Movement, or indeed, if there was one. I only knew that as far as I was concerned, I was fine; it was the world that was messed up. I remember longing for a civil rights movement for people like me, and feeling guilty because I, as an African-American, was born too late to participate in the civil rights movemenr of the day.

At age 21, purely by accident, I stumbled onto a group called ADAPT — and found my home! Here was a group of people of many colors and ages, who looked and thought like me. With ADAPT, I was able to do among many things, something that I thought I’d never do — fight against Jerry Lewis and his Pity Party!

Now here is another way to fight Jerry and his grotesque lies and views about people with disabilities — join the Blogswarm Against the Telethon, and Blog Out! See what other real folks with disabilities have to say about Jerry, his PityThon, how it makes them feel, and how thay have, or are overcoming. Stop by MiSS CRiP CHiCK’s place first, because she is leading this fight, then, join the Blogswarm at Kara’s site! It’s not too late, so go on by!