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

[Donald Grier]

Did you say you are not turninng this into a race issue?
 Donald Grier
donaldgrier at yahoo.com





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From: Daryl Swinson <dswinson at conwaycorp.net>
To: Info and discussion list for blind veterans. <blindvet-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:31:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindvet-talk] Comments Needed for Blindness Review inO:theOprah Magaz...

What you have to do is this:  Ask yourself if the disease changed white
people into black people, and they were treated the same way as in the
movie, would Oprah have been so hot to promote it?  I think not.
You can insert any other demographic into the above conditional statement.
Heck, you could even leave it as the Blind, but make all the actors black
and I guarantee you that Oprah would have been condemning the movie as
portraying black society in a negative light!
I'm not making this a "race issue", just using this as the hot button that
Oprah would most likely respond to.  Like I said, for anyone, you just have
to find the right demographic label to put on the button.

It's the flip side of the same coin.  Everything is cool when the coin lands
so one is the winner.  But when the flip side comes up and you turn into the
loser...well...it's an entirely different situation!


-----Original Message-----
From: blindvet-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:blindvet-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of LJH
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:23 AM
To: Info and discussion list for blind veterans.
Subject: Re: [Blindvet-talk] Comments Needed for Blindness Review
inO:theOprah Magaz...

Very well said!
----- Original Message -----
From: <Inthecar2 at aol.com>
To: <blindvet-talk at nfbnet.org>
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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