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Christopher Reeve, Inspiration and Success

Did you know, CNN is doing a story on Parenting with Disabilities. I’m sure it’s very difficult for many of us to feel comfortable opening up and sharing ou stories. Although I found the switch to give me the passion to come forth and become some what of an exhibitionist , it’s not always easy. Well I also noticed while watching television , shows aren’t always delivering content involving issues, actors or athletes with disabilities. I wonder to myself sometimes since my disability I watch more television. I wonder if any of you experienced this as well and if so I asked myself, if television is mostly viewed by individuals with disabilities. If this theory is true then why aren’t we seeing ourselves or representations of our real aspiration on film and television.

Ratings are made up of human viewers, if no one is watching , industry is dropping. My comrade Larry the Rolling Filmmaker is a big advocate on putting more actors with disabilities working in Hollywood, I’m sure seeing this would give many more inspiration as well. The few friends I made that are aspiring to break down barriers as well as fulfill their dreams are continuing to pursue their passions. I’m not a famous actor, I didn’t grow up in Hollywood and I don’t have famous friends but I still see those who are struggling within their own careers. I didn’t truly become more of a name among my peers on my own. It took everyone I met on Care Cure Community to help me get to this point where I’m taking a stand on this movement for supporting each other.

It’s been my statement that Christopher Reeve is my inspiration, I learned more about spinal cord injury because of him. Not just learning about the research, politics and technology but collaborating and helping others. Although it’s very important we support each other for the things we need to live we also need to enjoy life. We are still human despite our disability but sometimes we feel detached from the world considered normal. I’m assuming we possibly make up a very large percentage of viewers when it comes to television ratings. I’m sure someone would enjoy researching this idea but I know the many friends I chat with online many are stuck at home. That’s no luxury like some may think. I had a few people say to me I live like a King having people cater to my needs. If being stuck in bed and can’t get up and having to wait for someone to wake up to help me eat is living like a King, someone please dethrone me.

Back to the topic about what we see on TV. I would like to finally see a network about disability, they can call it TDC The Disability Channel, not an unique name but something to get us relative television. I can be conceited saying this but that’s just another theory, I bet if Christopher was here we had a television show maybe a network by now. Christopher seemed to have the super powers to be forever Superman and he broke more barriers then most actors with disabilities for disability, not only for himself. I feel beyond whatever reason others may feel they can’t get ahead , many times when you use your talents or power for others you succeed a lot more. That was Christopher, no matter what ever anyone thinks, he didn’t use his power for self gratification he used his power to help all of us.

So finally what I’m trying to say, is we need to try to support bringing disability in the media. If there’s no ratings there’s no sponsors. CNN called me to be part in a promotion about Parents with Disabilities. The show has nothing to do with me but I will support, watch, blog, bulletin or send out a newsletter. No matter weather you are a disabled parent or not, post , watch, add a video of your support. The key to balancing all these TV shows we say are crap yet get the most air time is going to need the same attention. So please pass on this link and encourage others to if not get involved, read the synopsis.

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categories Behavior, Community Inclusion, Disability, Disability Advocacy, Education, Independent Living, Living with a Disability, media | professirX | datetime April 17, 2010 10:55 am | comments Comments (2)

Krip Hop Part I

I was born in the 60′s in the South Bronx, NY. There was no home computer, cell phones, Internet or any wide screen televisions. Pretty much they way we lived then, we still managed to survive. Back then until 1987 when I was paralyzed, I never knew what paralysismeant or how it effects our ability. Even after being paralyzed until 2005, I wasn’t involved with spinal cord injury issues. Since 2005 until now, December 2009, about 5 years, I have experienced more greed, discrimination, nonsupport and holly-wooding, a term that means someone says something you want to hear when they’re just trying to brush you off. This experience in our ownSCI community. Am I shocked, even though I know your own brother can turn on you like Cain and Able. Yes I was. Sometime I feel in order to gain support I had tothimble myself and kiss butt. WOW, among my own SCI community, the people I suffer this pain with. Make no mistake I hold an grudges, in fact as I follow Jesus and the path He lived, sometime mankind can do things and not know what they’re doing. I’m no angel, I’m not perfect, I don’t think what ever I been told I do for othersSCI like myself deserves an award, all I’m expressing is something I feel is going on we can change.

I met Leroy Moore a few years ago. Leroy is to disability as Kool Herc and Africa Bambatta is to Hip Hop. He’s a soldier, a general and leader of creating a nation of supporting each other. He seeks out artist who are disable and ask them to send him their audio to be put on acompilation CD. Leroy reminds me of what Hip Hop was all about and how it was treated like I stated earlier about the experiences of greed, discrimination, nonsupport and holly-wooding that I took part in. Every thing Hip Hop was, was designed to save young lives, not to make a dollar. Contrary to what some may think, gangs, crime and wars existed before Hip Hop. Hip Hop didn’t create what already existed in mankind. Hip Hop was made to change the gangs, crime and wars and turn it into an art where talents went to battle without putting others into coffins. Therefore although you may see violence, greed and sex in Hip Hop videos, it’s no different then seeing the same thing in a block buster famous actor movie. What is the difference is unlikethose block buster movies, many of the artist lives are genuinely real. They don’t have laser beam vision or can shoot web out they’re wrist but their expression of art can sometimes only afford to create fantasy from their own reality, not a 100 million dollarCGI description of their art. Everything needs money event our dreams as aspirations. You can find ways through literature and book writing but most artist want to see their art on film not just on paper and if it means just picking up a camera and recording it the best way they can, an artist will do that.

I felt to write this blog because I had my last straw to hearing the statement Shameless Promotion. Most disable people can’t or may not be working. If durning their days at home they find a talent in them and begin working on it, if they decide their art can also help them pay for medications,supplies, hospital bills and rent because they’re not as finacially lucky like someone rich, is it wrong for them to try to use their art in their survival. From what I experienced, many have proved it to be. I think what’s shameless is when, you yourself living with a disability or you are anorganization who’s mission is to help disable people, to call their only means of self promoting shameless it’s very like friendly fire.

When man vs SCI becomes man vs man vs SCI, the war may never end. Everything man needs to live, like food and warter, God provides but some how mankind made a way to monopolize things we need to live and make us pay for it. So when many of us aren’t lucky enough to have major deals , we may chose to sell our art instead of robbing you. When you don’t provide options, sometimes others will chose negative options when the good ones aren’t helping them survives. Sure their naturally are bad individuals who no mater what will do wrong but there are many out there that genuinely want to do right. When wealthy companiescommercialize their products we accept that because they’re paying to promote their product, but if a unwealthy person who doesn’t have the money to promote their product we call their means of self promotions shameless. Spamming and Scams has also assisted in the obstacles for a true inventor. That’s about why things stay the same.

The classes can’t change if the masses wont change.

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categories Blogroll, Community Inclusion, Creative Ideas, Disability, Disability Advocacy, Living with a Disability, art | professirX | datetime January 3, 2010 8:02 pm | comments Comments (0)

Sarah Palin: A Serious Diss-appointment for People with Disabilities

October 26, 2008 by Javier Robles

This November 4th, many of us will have an opportunity that we as people with disabilities and family members of people with disabilities cannot pass up. We have within our hands a mandate to change the face of this nation’s capitol.

Why a mandate you ask? Because we as a group cannot afford four more years of poverty and indifference from those we “supposedly” put into office. We must not tolerate the cold shoulder we received from the Bush Administration when it came to issues of housing, employment, stem cell research, and civil liberties violations. Everyone I know is poorer today than they were eight years ago and they are enraged. Enraged at the lengths to which people with disabilities are suffering at the hands of politicians too rich to feel their pain.

You may be thinking, “Sarah Palin understands my needs as a person with a disability; she has a son with Down syndrome and a nephew with autism.” However, that does not qualify her to run a country! I know many mothers of children with special needs who are more qualified than she is. The argument that she will protect our interest as a group is weak and full of holes. Let me list a few:

Mrs. Palin is new to disability culture and history, as new as her child is old. I have had a disability for 25 years but my mother does not ever claim to understand the “special needs” I have. Many mothers of children with disabilities would tell Mrs. Palin, “You haven’t seen anything yet.”

How do I know? Because I have heard from parents of schoolchildren who are teased until they cry about their “special needs.” Because they have asked me, “If she is so talented why won’t anyone give her a job?” Because I don’t know what to say to the immigrant mother of a 17-year-old autistic child who will not qualify for health care in a year.

Mrs. Palin recently proved in an interview that she is too rich to care about the average person with a disability. In an interview on Colorado News 9 on Oct. 21, she stated that she was against Amendment 51, which seeks to raise the sales tax by one cent on every $10 spent in each of the next two years.

The money would go to help the roughly 12,000 kids and adults in Colorado who currently are on a wait list to receive state services such as home nursing care and job training. They suffer from autism, Down syndrome and mental retardation.
Mrs. Palin said “that there must be an alternative to raising taxes,” in contrast to Colorado’s former First Lady, a Republican who supports the amendment. Besides never having visited Russia, she obviously has never visited a developmental center.

Last, Mrs. Palin, like many politicians before her, thinks she has a chip she can cash at our table. People with disabilities are not a commodity one cashes in every four years. They are part of America’s promise for a better future and inclusion regardless of your place on the economic ladder. Don’t be fooled into thinking this election is about an innocent little boy in Alaska. It is not! It is about those 12,000 kids in Colorado who in the estimation of “some” are not worth one cent on every $10.

Your vote. Your Choice. Your Future.

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categories Disability, Disability Advocacy, Politics | admin | datetime October 26, 2008 8:24 pm | comments Comments (0)

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