Keep the faith 🌌

 he’s black here

 and here

 aaaaaand here

 guess who’s black

 black again

 still black

 african american

 black

 still black doe

 he’s whi- no wait still black

 b l a c k

 black ass man right here

 STILL BLACK

MICHAEL JACKSON IS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN. HE WAS BORN BLACK AND HE DIED BLACK. 

I miss you, I miss you I’m gonna need you more and more each day I miss you, more than words can say More than words can ever say

~ RIP Michael Jackson ~

Not only was he an amazing singer and dancer, but he was an amazing humanitarian. He used his fame to help heal the world, save lives, touch peoples’ hearts, and deliver powerful messages through his music, a characteristic artists lack today. And that is why he will always be one of my top most role models, no matter what trash is against him!

Here’s some examples awkward accessibility being a thing:

Your at a hotel that has a lift to get you from one sub-floor to another, but the lift can only be unlocked and operated by one specific person that the hotel now has to go find. Sure, they’ve made the entrance to the sub-floor is accessible, but now it’s a thing.

The buses are wheelchair accessible but the driver has to stop the bus, take 30 seconds to lower the goddamn ramp, move passengers out of their seats, hook up the straps and then secure you in the bus. Sure, they’ve made the busses accessible but now it’s a thing.

The restaurant has an accessible entrance, but it’s past the trash room and through the kitchen. Sure, the restaurant is accessible, but now it’s an insulting thing.

Here’s some great examples of accessibility not being a thing:

The train to the airport pulls up flush with the platform. I board with everyone else and sit wherever the fuck I want. Riding the train is accessible and not a thing.

In Portland, I press a button the side of the streetcar and a ramp automatically extends at the same time the door opens. I board in the same amount of time as everyone else. This is not a thing.

For example if your museum wants to begin offering described tours for blind/visually impaired guests you make sure you contact those people in your community and ask them what would help them experience the museum.

You make sure you make it a thing to your investors/donors

You post about it on your website/social media

Once the tour is in place you stop making a big fuss about it, you go back to advertising it like any other tour, you continue taking feedback from your audience but that’s it.

The reason you make it a thing at that point is to create the best accessible space you can but, as the urbancripple pointed out in the point about the keyed elevator: if we have to seek you out to gain access/if we feel like an inconvenience for needing extra time/effort to access spaces