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

[LJH]

very well said
----- Original Message ----- 
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 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindvet-talk] Comments Needed for Blindness 
ReviewinO: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...
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>> >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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