LeDerick Horne
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300 appearances
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first heard Aug 2021
last heard Aug 2021
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Um, I also wanted to create something that I I thought shared and conveyed the the beauty.
of uh the disability rights movement and all the people who are involved in it.
Um and just paid homage to the the advocacy that has uh helped us to create to have the world that we have now.
Can can I do that poem with a beer?
Okay.
All right, let's see.
Um
This is for the ones who would not be trapped behind exclusion's shameful wall.
And this is for the ones who will continue to push until every barrier falls.
This is for every wounded warrior.
Who came home and challenged our grateful nation to elevate its expectations?
This is for the ones who blocked the buses, sat in the sit-ins, and crawled to the Capitol.
This is for the protesters, the marchers, those adapt angels with wheelchair wings who troubled the waters of their time so that this generation might live in a more incredible.
being inclusive now as I write this, all over America, monuments are falling.
And only questions stand atop each empty pedestal as I recite this.
I hope an artist is listening, and will respond with marble and bronze, but until then, Ed Roberts, Judy Human, this poem is for you.
Let each line chase the light in your smiles, and trace the contours of your commitment.
Let these words salute those dedicated to the ideals that equality sprouts from the branch of equity.
Independence is the flower that grows from access, and freedom is rooted in the soil of advocacy.
This is for the ones who have embraced the reality that humanity is both fragile and mighty.
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