[Blindvet-talk] Comments Needed for Blindness Review in O:theOprah Magaz...

[LJH]

Very well said!
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Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindvet-talk] Comments Needed for Blindness Review in 
O:theOprah Magaz...


> >From what I've read and heard, it seems that the movie "Blindness" 
> >addresses
> a human nature issue rather than demeaning blind individuals.   Anything
> 'catastrophic' that occurs (large scale) will undoubtedly 'turn' 
> relatively
> decent people into raving maniacs.  For instance, if 90% of  a town's 
> people lost
> an arm or a leg, we would 'see' the same uncivilized  reaction as depicted 
> in
> the movie "Blindness".  While I am not all too  certain that this movie
> belittles or castes a negative impact on blind  people in general, I did 
> hand-out
> educational flyers at a local Sacramento  theater addressing the positive
> contributions that blind  and vision-impaired  people do make to our 
> society.  I am
> not so 'thin-skinned' that I cannot accept some ridicule or criticism; 
> after
> all, as a Black American, I have lived with this for the past 62 years!
> However, having said that, if the 'powers-to-be' truly believe that this 
> movie
> has the potential to be devastating to the goals NFB and its members, then 
> I
> will support that position.
> Lonnie DeWitt
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