Journalist – Historian – Speaker
This is the new Priorities USA ad – Dante. It features a young disabled African-American boy speaking directly to the camera about Donald Trump. A few weeks ago, Priorities USA released the ad Grace, which features who nice white parents of a disabled child criticizing Donald Trump for making fun of people with disabilities. I …
In my recent piece on the anti-Trump ad “Grace,” I quoted filmmaker (and founder of the vital #FilmDis Twitter chat) Dominick Evans saying: Dominick Evans, a filmmaker and disability advocate, argued that people in the disability community are the only marginalized group routinely not allowed to speak for themselves. “If this was a story about …
Yesterday, The Atlantic published my essay on “Grace,” the new anti-Trump ad put out by Priorities USA, a pro-left Super PAC. On another Sunday, I would have spent a lot of the day publicizing it, but given the massacre in Orlando, it felt inappropriate. Still, I think there are important themes here. “Grace” uses the moment …