New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg has recently made incredibly offensive remarks directed at wheelchair users who want greater access to the city’s yellow taxi fleet.
Bloomberg stated that “it’s too dangerous” for wheelchair users to hail a cab in New York City and that most drivers would “pretend they didn’t see them”. He also said wheelchair users “sit too far from the driver to establish a dialogue” and therefore “they would not tip well”.
It’s time to call out the offensive remarks of Bloomberg by showing your support for a fully-accessible NYC taxi fleet. Sadly, only 231 of the city’s 13,000 taxis are accessible to wheelchair users.
Did you ever notice that the people who are against inclusion are always in the majority and receiving every benefit society has to offer.....
I wonder if the mayor's attitude would change if he was the person being discriminated against. Is it wrong to want equal access?
1 comments:
I'm appalled at your Mayor's callous and discriminatory comments. I hope you have charities/action groups who will pick this up and make an issue of this. You deserve an apology at the very least! Resignation would be better, he clearly isn't representing the area very well.
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