Oppression

Such grinding oppression of black people has given rise to the situation wherein they have collectively internalised all of the negative images and stereotypes of race and disability that others hold. In turn, they have come to blame themselves for the bad experiences they suffer because of their race and their disabilities. There is little appreciation of the fact that the problems faced by black disabled people do not stem from any intrinsic or inherent physical or mental limitations on their part. The fact of the matter is that, to a very great extent, it is the attitudes of able-bodied people from within their own ethnic communities, from the wider community and even from within the predominantly white disabled community, which restricts and dis-enables them. 

The history of this multi-faceted segregation and exclusion of black disabled people makes it all the more difficult for them to even begin the process of integration.