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Someone recently asked what intersectionality is about. We know black people suffer discrimination. We know disabled people suffer discrimination. Well, this is the special kind of discrimination black disabled people can face. #BlackLivesMatter

On June 11th, Michael Hickson, a quadriplegic black man with COVID-19 was killed by a hospital in Austin Texas.

Doctors decided he had "no quality of life" and was not worth spending the resources to save.

The conversation between his doctor and his wife was caught on audio 1/?

A black disabled man on an invasive ventilator smiling at the camera