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Westley Hamilton

Westley Hamilton

Disability justice advocate and speaker; spinal cord injury survivor; founder of Disabled But Not Really Foundation

May 27, 2026

6:12
Mm
6:12
... like, again, like, for me, I grew up innocent, or I thought I was.And then society made me feel like who they wanted me to be.
6:20
And I was supposed to be a mean, angry Black man.
6:24
Mm-hmm.
6:25
So by the age of maybe eight, I was be- beginning to be introduced to that narrative.
6:31
Yes.
6:32
So everything around me centered that.

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23:20
Of course.

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