indignity

Like many other Colored people of that era, he saw education as the pathway his children could follow to escape indignities and dangers, large and small.

After everything endured by victims of the Eaton and Palisades fires, they didn’t need yet another indignity, another gut punch, another reason to throw their heads back and scream.

The steady-paced, often mordantly funny “Pick a Color” explores the immigrant experience, the long tail of trauma, the indignities suffered by low-wage workers and their companion emotions: loneliness, loss and grief.

Another man, who had soiled himself, was left in his own excrement for 20 hours, while others suffered the indignity of having to use bedpans in corridors.

The special access shut down is just one of many indignities piling up as travelers face week five of the U.S. government shutdown.