American's With Disabilities Analysis

People hear the word “disability” and often think of the most obvious types of disabilities: mobility, visual or hearing impairments. However, disability may be physical, mental, be readily observed or unseen; disabilities may result from a variety of causes.The definition of disability is quite problematic and complex. In the American’s with Disabilities Act of 1990, disability is defined as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual; a record of such impairment; or being regarded as having such an impairment.” The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines disability as “the condition of being disabled.” However, disability is a misused title in today’s society. Everyone has a sort of disability; a way of not fitting in; a way of not being “able.”
More or less, when one hears the word “disability,” he or she thinks of a physical condition pertaining to the body. People who are classified as having a physical
Butler states’ “I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people" (Butler). Slavery caused people to become emotionally, psychologically, and physically disabled. In the article, Slavery as a Sexual Atrocity, by Patricia Gay, she states, “when African Americans speak directly to their experience of slavery, the dominant culture tends to take a pseudo-victim stance, asking why blacks insist on living in the past” (Gay 8). Africans express the psychological effects of slavery on their culture sometimes through poetry. In a modern form, Tupac Shakur poetry is used to paint a picture of the evolution of a mind traumatized by slavery, for his life was a wretched symbol of the unconscious thought that existed during slavery that of which still impedes African American thought today. Shakur