The Paralympic Games FAILED to improve the lives of disabled people or change the attitudes of the wider public, If anything it has done exactly the opposite, the uneducated wider public think all disabled people can perform like the Supa Crips that took part in the games whereas we know the real truth.
The Disabled participants at the games were used by the politicians and the media to continue the abuse of disabled people on an everyday basis, nothings changed, a few supa crips have achieved their personal goals forgetting their fellow disabled citizens in the process.
Being abused in the streets and shops is now an everyday thing for disabled people, disabled people are now the new Blacks, how long will it be before abuse of the disabled is taken as seriously as being Black???
Paul Smith – Founder – Atos Victims Group
Success of GB athletes fails to alter attitudes, as poll shows widespread verbal and physical abuse
The vast majority of disabled people in Britain feel there has been no improvement in attitudes towards them a year after the Paralympics and many feel stigmatised as “benefit scroungers” while suffering hostility and abuse, a leading charity has warned.
Campaigners said the sea change in perceptions of people with disabilities
generated by the London 2012 Games has been
eroded by misleading rhetoric from politicians and within the media about
welfare payments and a crisis in living standards for the disabled caused by
spending cuts.
Twelve months to the day after the opening ceremony for the Paralympics, the host city for the Games – which thrust athletes such as Jonnie Peacock and Ellie Simmonds into the same spotlight as Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis – has one of the highest rates of attacks on disabled people.
Twelve months to the day after the opening ceremony for the Paralympics, the host city for the Games – which thrust athletes such as Jonnie Peacock and Ellie Simmonds into the same spotlight as Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis – has one of the highest rates of attacks on disabled people.
