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Leroy: The Coronavirus high-risk group speaks out.

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    Oh you know people with disabilites
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    have already been isolated, you know?
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    And the country is finally waking up
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    to the realities of people with disabilties
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    We work from home, many of us
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    do our whole work from the bed.
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    We've been telemarketing
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    ever since the internet began
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    I'm glad that the rest of the world
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    is waking up to what the people
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    with disabilities have
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    been living since day one.
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    The question is, after this,
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    are we going to really sit down and
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    look at how we can implement
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    some of the things that people with
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    disabilities have been doing since day one
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    The media is so idiotic because if you
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    look at any other things, it takes
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    brown and black people. If you look at
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    who's working in grocery stores
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    whose doing this essential work...
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    My sister works with banks.
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    She has to go to work.
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    It makes sense that
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    black and brown people are affected more
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    by this virus
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    The thing is, what are we
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    going to do about it as a country?
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    I think institutionalized racism
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    kills us constantly, every day.
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    With the virus, it just compounds it.
Title:
Leroy: The Coronavirus high-risk group speaks out.
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Video Language:
English
Team:
ABILITY Magazine
Duration:
02:10

English, British subtitles

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