I haven't personally been discriminated against, but have been with others who have. I work at a campus for people with Developmental Disabilities and they often go out in the community and do things that we do. We all went out to eat at New China and the hostess there put us all in the back room isolating us from the rest of the restaurant that happened to be pretty empty at the time. I haven't eaten there since. I can't say that they were discriminating or they were trying to accomodate us and all of our wheelchairs by giving us extra room. Our philosophy at Wendell Foster is that we want the people we serve to have as normal of a life as they can possibly have; a life like us. They can't have that life if they are shoved to the back corner of a restaurant
My son's father is African-American. When we were looking for a home to rent in Texas. The woman who showed us a house told us it was rented. We were suspicious, so we called back. She said the house was still for rent. We just let it go. I was enraged because I had never dealt with anything like that before. My husband just laughed and said 'you're one us now, you better get used to it.' We had just came from Europe and not experienced any discrimination; Europeans are much more liberal. I couldn't believe my own country was treating us this way.
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I haven't personally been discriminated against, but have been with others who have. I work at a campus for people with Developmental Disabilities and they often go out in the community and do things that we do. We all went out to eat at New China and the hostess there put us all in the back room isolating us from the rest of the restaurant that happened to be pretty empty at the time. I haven't eaten there since. I can't say that they were discriminating or they were trying to accomodate us and all of our wheelchairs by giving us extra room. Our philosophy at Wendell Foster is that we want the people we serve to have as normal of a life as they can possibly have; a life like us. They can't have that life if they are shoved to the back corner of a restaurant
My son's father is African-American. When we were looking for a home to rent in Texas. The woman who showed us a house told us it was rented. We were suspicious, so we called back. She said the house was still for rent. We just let it go. I was enraged because I had never dealt with anything like that before. My husband just laughed and said 'you're one us now, you better get used to it.' We had just came from Europe and not experienced any discrimination; Europeans are much more liberal. I couldn't believe my own country was treating us this way.
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