Comments on: In charity skit, Paterson mocks wheelchair ad http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/04/22/paterson-charity-skit-14840/ Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:50:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Johanna http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/04/22/paterson-charity-skit-14840/comment-page-1/#comment-4085 Johanna Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:55:13 +0000 http://www.patriciaebauer.com/?p=14840#comment-4085 Last December Governor Paterson responded to the SNL skit that lampooned him and his disability in the NY Times saying, "There is only one way that people could have an unemployment rate that's six times the national average - it's attitude." "And I'm afraid that the kind of third-grade depiction of individuals and the way they look and the way they move add to that negative environment. I run the place that I work in so I don't have to worry about being discriminated against, I think," he said. "But the point is that a lot of people who don't get promotions and don't get opportunities and don't even get work are disabled in our society." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/nyregion/15skit.html?_r=3&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1229343112-vS3XDLIv+ouayFNnuU7CFw After watching the video of Gov Paterson lampooning people who use wheelchairs in the skit he performed at the charity fundraiser in Albany, I'm compelled to ask: Gov Paterson, do you think we're not paying attention to your jaw-dropping insensitivity and hypocrisy? Last December Governor Paterson responded to the SNL skit that lampooned him and his disability in the NY Times saying, “There is only one way that people could have an unemployment rate that’s six times the national average – it’s attitude.”

“And I’m afraid that the kind of third-grade depiction of individuals and the way they look and the way they move add to that negative environment. I run the place that I work in so I don’t have to worry about being discriminated against, I think,” he said. “But the point is that a lot of people who don’t get promotions and don’t get opportunities and don’t even get work are disabled in our society.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/nyregion/15skit.html?_r=3&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1229343112-vS3XDLIv+ouayFNnuU7CFw

After watching the video of Gov Paterson lampooning people who use wheelchairs in the skit he performed at the charity fundraiser in Albany, I’m compelled to ask:

Gov Paterson, do you think we’re not paying attention to your jaw-dropping insensitivity and hypocrisy?

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