Dear Entertainment Industry: I see you mourning Chadwick Boseman — as you should, because he was an incredible man. But I’ve seen so many say, “He didn’t want to trouble us with his cancer because he was such a caretaker.” That’s a paraphrase, of course, and it’s meant to be a loving tribute to the man.
But as someone who deliberately chose to leave the entertainment industry due to its inaccessibility and discrimination against disabled people, I cannot ignore the dark side of that statement.
Chadwick Boseman, a phenomenal man and actor who was absolutely deserving of the opportunities he got, likely would not have been cast if people knew he had cancer.
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