potential participant. Again, I must have been too potent for them because they chose an able-bodied woman to 'represent' the disability issue with her wishywashy idea that ultimately it's the mother's choice anyway. She should have been on the opposing side! Of course this programme had its token man but not its token 'crip'. It really is outrageous. In this day and age you would never have a white person talking on behalf of black people on black issues. How dare the able-bodied presume to know disabled people's thoughts and feelings? Needless to say I put pen to paper, this time in the form of a poem which I sent to the editor.
STIFLED VOICES
cry for our world cry for our world I cry for our world where white speaks for black and non-disabled for disabled and man for wife where perfect, planned and privileged are liked, loved and worshipped and alone have the right to life where ignorance breeds ignorance and power is snatched from those who know where fools make the decisions and lay down the law for us all and take choice from us blow by blow
cry for our world