Counago & Spaves

Holy crap.
That cartoon is horribly bigotted. Developmentally disabled people should not be ridiculed (especially as far as being compared to Bush), they have enough to deal with in a country that continuously cuts funding for the programs that help them live reasonably normal lives (thanks Bush ... and Clinton). My fiancee is in grad school for social work, so I might be a little more sensitive to this, or maybe just a little more informed. Let's go with the latter.
But really, I was offended by that, and I'm pretty hard to offend.
 

I was feeling a little bad about Ted Rall being fired UNTIL I did further investigating and found out that he is not beyond using racist comments as well. See this site below for one of the cartoons he did regarding Condeleeza Rice, where he exaggerated her African American features and even resorted to using the "n" word to get a laugh. He also insinuates that because of her success, she is somehow less black and must be retaught how to be African American. Just disgusting. Look how far she has come, and what she must have endured to achieve so much, just to be belittled by this scum.

It is laughable that this guy actually thinks he speaks for everyday Americans, and that this country will be less without his opinions. It is views such as he expresses that Lead democrats to the Right. Can France PLEASE take him off our hands? Pretty please, with sugar on top? :-) The apology fell as flat as his cartoons did to me. There is no point in apologizing and defending in the same breath.

Here's the disgusting link about Dr. Rice www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/07/05/

As far as you people who are against mainstreaming, what would you have us do with our children? Make a school just for them, so no appropriate behavior can be modeled? What about the class clowns, druggies, and sluts in class? Should we also have special schools for them? They are a distraction in class afterall. Come to think of it Jerome's dred locks are somewhat of a distraction, and Shanequa's brown skin looks different from the other students. Maybe they should go to a special school. Funny, some of the arguments given against mainstreaming sound painfully close to the arguments for keeping segregation.

Does anyone actually believe that mainstreaming is what's wrong with our school systems???? One of the biggest problems that our special needs kids have with mainstreaming is trying to avoid being bullied and beat up by the sociopaths you intolerant people have bred and unleashed upon society.

Say what you will, but at last report nearly 1 in 166 kids are now being diagnosed with Autism, not to mention all the other catagories that fall under special needs. As parents we have been to hell and back and have no problem fighting for our kids. The last thing we need to deal with is being shut out of the opportunity to become a functioning human being, because your little darling is a mite bit uncomfortable. Get over it.


Kim
Mom who will take off the gloves when it comes to my kid.
 

You go Kim....I was in a special Ed school when I was young due to health concerns. They began mainstreming me in 5th grade, and they other kids in the school, had their cliques and a bond between them that left me an outsider. It didn't help that I was from the next town which was poorer than the town my school was in. But I never cared a whit. I have always had a great self image and consider people that don't want to be my friend as the losers. O.K., so maybe great self image went into slightly arrogant. Oh well.

Growing up in teh school with "handicapped" kids, and having them as friends, some of them for almost 30 years now, taught me early on to NOT judge people by what you wee, but how they are.
 

My kid's got autism and I use to be a special ed teacher. People who make jokes like this ought to check out the history of learning disabled folks.

See: http://www.bayyinat.org.uk/disability.htm