#and the fact that I'm a wheel-using disabled person who can't hear and has no phone and specialists keep contacting my partner telling me to

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This is the comment someone made to me today ( just realized the comment was actually made 2 days ago I just saw it today)on an online post on an article where I said the justice system in my state is fucked up because a young black mother is being tried on reckless endangerment and involuntary manslaughter charges for leaving her 3 year old with his wheelchair bound grandmother.

My mother worked in banks her whole career while also juggling all the work and stress of first simply being a military wife and then the added stress of being the commanders wife and somehow managed to raise well balanced, intelligent, successful kids while doing it. My father has literally never been absent in my life. In fact it's been quite the opposite he was wayy too involved for years. He balanced a 35 year military career with teaching Sunday school, coaching sports teams at all levels, showing us the world through incredible travel opportunities and supported every dream, goal, and random idea along the way. The kids they raised were all successful in their first careers and have all set their sights on secondary careers in the medical field just like our father did after he got out of the military. All of us were raised in the church and were active members of our church community. I even taught Sunday school all 4 years of highschool. I am not heterosexual and my family knows it, I've been open about my bisexuality since I was young, I am however currently engaged to a wonderful man whom I wouldn't trade for the world and both of my brothers are completely straight as far as I know.

This is the casual and unnecessary racism I deal with far too often. This case is already tragic to begin with because of the loss of a child, but to then compound that tragedy by charging his mother with recklessly endangering him and involuntarily causing his death because she had to work and our state shut down every school, day care, and child care facility due to Covid so she left him in the care of his grandmother who happened to be in a wheel chair. Which is a whole other issue in my eyes. The incredibly ableist idea that a person in a wheel chair is incapable of taking care of a child and therefor leaving a child with them constitutes reckless endangerment sets up a precedent that's nearly Hitlerian, how many people are now going to use this case a precedent to take kids away from good parents just because they are disabled in some way. I can see it now, it starts with taking all the children from wheelchair bound parents, then it's "well deaf parents can't hear their kids in an emergency", then "blind parents can't possibly watch their kids safely if they can't even see" Lost your arms in combat or born with out them , you can't carry your kid to safety in an emergency so we're taking them too. It's completely insane.

For 🤍 people to then compound this tragedy by saying things like this, and other awful things about black people as well. (There was another response not directed at me saying "3 years old, just in time, in 10 years he would have blossomed into another criminal" ) Yes literally saying they were thankful a child was dead because they are so racist they think young black boys all become criminals.

These 🤍 people are literally celebrating the death of a child, saying they hope his mother serves the max for essentially leaving him in her mother's care when an unforseeable tragedy occured, saying all 🖤 women are bad mother's, Yet according to so many of them we are supposed to be the Uncultured Savages of the world. One again I'm pretty sure I'd rather be an Uncultured Savage than a racist ignorant horrible excuse of a human being, but maybe that's just me.