Alejandro Ripley

 Several people in the disability rights movement are writing about the murder of Alejandro Ripley as yet another example of parents murdering their disabled children with impunity due to systemic ableism.

Several people in the racial justice movement are writing about how Alejandro's mother/killer, Patricia Ripley, blamed the crime on fictitious "Black men" as yet another example of racists scapegoating people of color with impunity due to systemic racism.

We should all be writing about both. Racism and ableism wind together into an ugly glob of hate and oppression. Our society sees disabled people as disposable, sees people of color as disposable, murders, abuses, incarcerates, disabled people and people of color and most especially disabled people of color. You can't talk about one without the other.

I don't have more to say about this, because it's already been said. Stop being ableist. Stop being racist. Start speaking out against the intersecting systems of oppression that devalue human lives. You should have been doing this already.