Joseph Shapiro
speaker
255 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Jul
Joseph Shapiro’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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were not there because they wanted to be there, that there was no place for them.
We realized that some of it was a civil rights issue, you know.
I had this Volkswagen van and I took people everywhere.
It was a taste of freedom.
And Blank kept pushing for more.
He wanted the nursing home to feel more like a college dorm for these young residents.
He got them to register to vote.
He wanted them to make decisions for themselves, like what they wanted to eat and when they wanted to go to sleep.
He wanted them to have more agency over their own lives.
He challenged the way things were done.
Wank had this idea, which some viewed as radical, that these young people should live in their own homes and get their care there.
The nursing home eventually fired him.
Wade felt that there was people who were lost and were brilliant people who lived and were undiscovered.
Wade Blank understood that riding a bus was a symbol of American civil rights.
Here's Blank speaking to that in an old interview with a TV news outlet.
And they were not going to make them wheelchair accessible, although lifts had been invented.
And I said...
You hear about the buses?
He said, I did.
I said, well, how would you like to be a plaintiff?
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