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Making this film is important because just like any group of people disabled people need
their heroes. We had to fight for the ones we have Franklin Roosevelt and John Huckleberry
an excellent journalist who did some incredible things. We have all kind of heroes and people
keep on taking them away from us Max Cleveland and the other one their trying to take away
from us. I even consider Muhammad Ali one of our heroes because he is still going and
he is still doing what he wants to do. He is still doing what he needs to do. People’s
perceptions of him he is not letting that get in his way. I think this film is important
because I think Ed Roberts is one of our real heroes. It is not that he was better than
the rest of us or more than the rest of us. Some of us think he has had opportunities
that we didn’t have but because he is an example of what a lot of people have tried
to do. He is just the best example that is what makes him a hero. He accomplished things
when other people weren’t. He showed people that a severely disabled person could do a
whole lot. One of things we used to say that he was a head of the whole department of vocational
and rehabilitation in California in one of the biggest state the biggest state. If he
could do that than we could do all kinds of other things. That is why it is important
it is always important to know your history. If we have a culture and I believe we do if
there is a disability society and I believe there is we have to have our history. A splendid
deception the story of Franklin Roosevelt the disability story that is our history.
It was so important to me to read it and to know. To know how severely disabled he was
and what he had to do to survive. So whenever you can preserve your heroes that is extremely
important. Every group of people need their heroes.