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Description: in·sti·tu·tion·al·ize
2. To place (a person) in the care of an institution.
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Description: in·sti·tu·tion·al·ize
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institutionalized
Institutionalized
in·sti·tu·tion·al·ize
2. To place (a person) in the care of an institution.
Have you ever been in Bed-Sty Brooklyn in a wheelchair and saw you couldn't get into them Brownstones or to The Newark Public Library and saw a new addition to the building to allow people in wheelchairs to get inside. I'm sure if you're walking you never thought about it at all. This is not an I'm bitter because I can't walk statement because the majority of people in society think people in wheelchairs are bitter and mean , this is not always true but I understand why some people are afraid to approach individuals sitting down because they might be mad at what life has become for them.
I opened up with this question because it isn't until recently we are seeing our construction built before us being designed with the wheelchair in mind. Every generation after the struggles and fights to have rights, freedom and accessibility seems to forget what it was when they were without. But is it not the new generations fault they don't know what they are doing. Only the person living for over 100 years can understand and appreciate. I don't know what it was like to have to take a commode from under my bed and use it, or have to go to an outhouse because in my time of birth, there was plumbing. So imagine after every march to get your freedom and rights, or a vaccine for a disease is found and a lift or ramp put on a bus or building is accomplished the struggle is no longer there for that child born into an era of change, so how can they appreciate something they was never without.
When Hip Hop was delivered by Kool Herc and to a place Known as the South Bronx, To me it symbolized the events of God sending Moses to free the slaves and bring them to a place where they can no longer be in bondage. We remember from movies Moses goes away for some time and returns seeing his people worshiping gold, engaged in out of control sexual activity and doing insane acts. Today we are not far from that scenario. The freedom of the milk and honey somehow made the oppressed become the obsessed. It's the now being able to have that seems to create the it's not that important to me right now, I'll get it later. Doesn't it seem odd that the struggle causes unity then the unity causes victory that makes the victory cause insanity.
All these statement aren't rambling, I'm not jumping from one topic to another, everything relates, that's why it's important to have diversity because in every cookie there are many ingredients.
So back to the issue on top. What does it mean, where are we today and do we still have a long way to go to end institutionalization. Remember when I asked if you ever tried getting into a Brownstone in a wheelchair. That was a question to what do you know about how history saw the different able. Do you think no one was paralyzed before the construction of our cities around the country. I have encounter many public places not accessible for wheelchairs, therefore before the fight for different able rights, society must have been in a mental state that no one with a physical challenge will need get in this building so the contractors and forman wasn't looking at blueprints with a wheelchair accesses in mind.
Institutions held those who weren't normal , ever watched an old black and white cinema or TV show, can you count up to 5 times you seen a wheelchair. May families would send their children, their parents to institutions where they stayed until death. Somewhat today we have institutions , called nursing homes, usually in some rural area out the way. Not saying the quality of care is the same but abuse of a person can come event in their own home, not just in adult care facilities.
Zen Garcia, a good comrade of mine that introduced the generation of a fight to freedom. We had the Women's Liberation the Civil Rights Movement, the Gay Right Movement and now it seems it's the dawn of the Wheelchair Exist Movement. But with the wheelchair movement , no matter, sex, ethnic, sexual orientation, anyone can be in a wheelchair. Discrimination of the chair is not always something done in intent but we can't forget individuals in wheelchairs may want to have a life more then their chair. Zen fights so that no matter if you're ina wheelchair, if you want to live in your own house, you should be able too and society should be designed so that if nurse care, therapy or personal assistance is needed, it should be available ina persons home if needed. Not everyone want to live in a senior care facility their whole life. The same quality of living should exist everywhere, not a chosen spot.
This is even my theory when it comes to sports and entertainment. Tom Cruise in Born On The Fourth Of July and a movie that's name I can't remember where Wesley Snipes played a wheelchair bound person. Neither actor paralyzed but received a role written for a paralyzed individual. A friend of mine made a statement, ''if the role is written for a paralyzed individual, why not hire a paralyzed actor''. Well I'm sure a response would be ''Tom Cruise and Snipes sells tickets, what paralyzed actor you know that famous and besides it's my movie pal, relax''. Hollywood doesn't have to follow the rules a bus or train has too, whomever a producer hires to play a role, there's no law that says their movie should have a number of wheelchair extras or actors in it and shouldn't have to. I'm not looking for a law, why should you have to force anyone to do what's humane but history shows you have to force or make laws to make people humane.
I'm sure if Christopher Reeve was here, we see more diverse actors in hollywood but human issues was more important , the quality of life, the health and cure of paralyzed individuals was front-line and that's why to me after Jesus, King and Malcolm, Reeve was a great humanitarian that gave his life for my freedom. So during Christopher's journey he chose others not Hollywood alone. With power comes great responsibility, what you chose to do with it can determine your front page then what's inside the book. I respect a man's choice, even when they can make things possible for others that might share their own challenges but the only famous person that relates to my challenge that use their famous attribute to do more then asked of him is Christopher Reeve.
So tell me if you feel institutionalized by anything in life. What do you feel left out from and what is it that you feel is why you were left out.
in·sti·tu·tion·al·ize
2. To place (a person) in the care of an institution.
Have you ever been in Bed-Sty Brooklyn in a wheelchair and saw you couldn't get into them Brownstones or to The Newark Public Library and saw a new addition to the building to allow people in wheelchairs to get inside. I'm sure if you're walking you never thought about it at all. This is not an I'm bitter because I can't walk statement because the majority of people in society think people in wheelchairs are bitter and mean , this is not always true but I understand why some people are afraid to approach individuals sitting down because they might be mad at what life has become for them.
I opened up with this question because it isn't until recently we are seeing our construction built before us being designed with the wheelchair in mind. Every generation after the struggles and fights to have rights, freedom and accessibility seems to forget what it was when they were without. But is it not the new generations fault they don't know what they are doing. Only the person living for over 100 years can understand and appreciate. I don't know what it was like to have to take a commode from under my bed and use it, or have to go to an outhouse because in my time of birth, there was plumbing. So imagine after every march to get your freedom and rights, or a vaccine for a disease is found and a lift or ramp put on a bus or building is accomplished the struggle is no longer there for that child born into an era of change, so how can they appreciate something they was never without.
When Hip Hop was delivered by Kool Herc and to a place Known as the South Bronx, To me it symbolized the events of God sending Moses to free the slaves and bring them to a place where they can no longer be in bondage. We remember from movies Moses goes away for some time and returns seeing his people worshiping gold, engaged in out of control sexual activity and doing insane acts. Today we are not far from that scenario. The freedom of the milk and honey somehow made the oppressed become the obsessed. It's the now being able to have that seems to create the it's not that important to me right now, I'll get it later. Doesn't it seem odd that the struggle causes unity then the unity causes victory that makes the victory cause insanity.
All these statement aren't rambling, I'm not jumping from one topic to another, everything relates, that's why it's important to have diversity because in every cookie there are many ingredients.
So back to the issue on top. What does it mean, where are we today and do we still have a long way to go to end institutionalization. Remember when I asked if you ever tried getting into a Brownstone in a wheelchair. That was a question to what do you know about how history saw the different able. Do you think no one was paralyzed before the construction of our cities around the country. I have encounter many public places not accessible for wheelchairs, therefore before the fight for different able rights, society must have been in a mental state that no one with a physical challenge will need get in this building so the contractors and forman wasn't looking at blueprints with a wheelchair accesses in mind.
Institutions held those who weren't normal , ever watched an old black and white cinema or TV show, can you count up to 5 times you seen a wheelchair. May families would send their children, their parents to institutions where they stayed until death. Somewhat today we have institutions , called nursing homes, usually in some rural area out the way. Not saying the quality of care is the same but abuse of a person can come event in their own home, not just in adult care facilities.
Zen Garcia, a good comrade of mine that introduced the generation of a fight to freedom. We had the Women's Liberation the Civil Rights Movement, the Gay Right Movement and now it seems it's the dawn of the Wheelchair Exist Movement. But with the wheelchair movement , no matter, sex, ethnic, sexual orientation, anyone can be in a wheelchair. Discrimination of the chair is not always something done in intent but we can't forget individuals in wheelchairs may want to have a life more then their chair. Zen fights so that no matter if you're ina wheelchair, if you want to live in your own house, you should be able too and society should be designed so that if nurse care, therapy or personal assistance is needed, it should be available ina persons home if needed. Not everyone want to live in a senior care facility their whole life. The same quality of living should exist everywhere, not a chosen spot.
This is even my theory when it comes to sports and entertainment. Tom Cruise in Born On The Fourth Of July and a movie that's name I can't remember where Wesley Snipes played a wheelchair bound person. Neither actor paralyzed but received a role written for a paralyzed individual. A friend of mine made a statement, ''if the role is written for a paralyzed individual, why not hire a paralyzed actor''. Well I'm sure a response would be ''Tom Cruise and Snipes sells tickets, what paralyzed actor you know that famous and besides it's my movie pal, relax''. Hollywood doesn't have to follow the rules a bus or train has too, whomever a producer hires to play a role, there's no law that says their movie should have a number of wheelchair extras or actors in it and shouldn't have to. I'm not looking for a law, why should you have to force anyone to do what's humane but history shows you have to force or make laws to make people humane.
I'm sure if Christopher Reeve was here, we see more diverse actors in hollywood but human issues was more important , the quality of life, the health and cure of paralyzed individuals was front-line and that's why to me after Jesus, King and Malcolm, Reeve was a great humanitarian that gave his life for my freedom. So during Christopher's journey he chose others not Hollywood alone. With power comes great responsibility, what you chose to do with it can determine your front page then what's inside the book. I respect a man's choice, even when they can make things possible for others that might share their own challenges but the only famous person that relates to my challenge that use their famous attribute to do more then asked of him is Christopher Reeve.
So tell me if you feel institutionalized by anything in life. What do you feel left out from and what is it that you feel is why you were left out.
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