A TIME TO WAIT AND A TIME TO STAND(FIGURATIVELY OR LITERALLY)

As Ecclesiastes says "To everything there is a season, and a Time to every purpose under Heaven". There is, I would add to these verses, a time to wait for Justice and a time to stand up and Demand Justice. Fifty years ago this week, the latter had come for The African American Community. While that goal is still not totally fulfilled, there is another group of Minorities that are also under direct assault from The Conservative Philosophy and The Republican Party. I refer, of course, to Americans With Disabilities of any and all kinds. A few years ago all of The Republican Attorneys General of The States that have Republicans in this position sued The Federal Government to say that State and Locally Owned PUBLIC Buildings should not be subject to The Americans With Disabilities Act Mandate to make all Public Buildings Accessible to Americans With Disabilities. Of course a majority of The Supreme Court ultimately Ruled in their favor. Since then, I can tell you first hand that The State Government of Texas has taken many steps to restrict Public Access for Texans with Disabilities because I have been to many Rallies against these moves. I have heard that there have been similar moves by Legislatures and Governors of other Red States, although as I do not live there I do not have first hand knowledge. I'm sure there are those that are saying that those of us with Disabilities should wait,, maybe until there is what they feel is enough money in the coffers to accommodate those in our ranks that need these for physical access or maybe for something else. I say that while there is a time to wait, THAT TIME IS OVER. There is also a time to stand up (literally or figuratively, as we are able) and demand to be heard. I say THAT THE LATTER TIME HAS COME. Let everyone with a disability and everyone who cares about anyone with a disability tell every Conservative/ Republican they know to stop treating us like Second Class Human Beings. We are not asking for a hand out or "special" Rights as some like to call protections for People With Disabilities, we are merely asking for the chance to succeed or fail by our own abilities on a level playing field, because if people cannot even enter a building, what they could have accomplished inside it will never be known. Tomorrow's short story "Keep The Unproductive Out of Sight And Out of Mind" will show the urgency of this type of Action.