Mamma Bear
Mamma Bear moment. It’s sad that you feel like you must protect your child from words from important people who could have the ability to drastically make life exponentially harder for my son who tragically was injured in a car accident 3 years ago and was paralyzed from the neck down. Life isn’t easy for him or us that take care of his every need. In the heels of a terrible plane crash, to tell the world it was due to a program through the FAA that helps include people with physical disabilities was highly misleading to a population that won’t know or investigate the truth of the program or the cause of the accident. Words are powerful and some’s carry more weight than others. Implying that hiring people with a physical disability will compromises safety will increase the harmful stigma of a population that is already vulnerable and has the highest unemployment rates in America. Ever since Julian was hurt, we have tried to convince...