The link at the bottom of this blog post is to read my gorgeous friend Esthers story.
This is her story about her trip to go see Beyonce in London.
It hurts and upsets me so much to see this amazing young woman upset in this way by unthinking and uncaring people who haven’t the common sense to make the right decisions.
She was so excited about it.
She just wanted to see her favourite singer. Same as everyone else there. Not treated astonishingly shabbily by jumped up people with zero interest, zero compassion.
I’ve also just been speaking to my boyfriend Richard, whom also has a story about the same venue. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. These are his words.
“I am severe sight impaired and use a long cane. In 2021 I booked a ticket at Tottenham Hotspur to see an NFL game. I also booked a companian ticket and had to provide proof of my visual impairment. They decided to put me in the disabled section and when I arrived on the day of the game my seat had been removed to allow for a wheelchair. So the first 45 minutes of the game I spent standing up – it was humiliating, until they put me a seat in. Absolutely hopeless”
What on earth are they thinking treating visually impaired people like this! How dare they! It’s NOT on at all.
I feel sometimes I ought to give up bleating on about Inclusivity, awareness. Give up blogging when I see unbelievable errors like this. Trying to educate people about what visual impairments overall spectrum of sight really means. The misconceptions. The stereotypes that sighted people get all too wrong. That’s another blog post for later though.
It happens all too often unfortunately.
I’m half way through writing a blog about more discrimination in my hometown. More soon…
Link to Esther’s story on BBC News Website
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