[Iabs-talk] Fwd: [Colorado-talk] Walmart issue
Araceli Avina
shortattit7 at aim.com
Thu Oct 1 11:11:44 UTC 2009
Interesting email sent to ColoradoTalk.
Araceli Avina, Secretary
Illinois Association of Blind Students
ISVI Advisory Council Member
(303) 904-0165
Sox win!!!!!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Monika Reinholz <monika_r_r at hotmail.com>
To: cabs at nfbnet.org; colorado-talk at nfbnet.org
Sent: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 10:41 pm
Subject: [Colorado-talk] Walmart issue
Hi all,
I normally do not write on the lists but I thought I should bring
something up that I recently discovered. I was at my local Walmart the
other day and went down the Halloween aisle as I was needing to pick-up
some face makeup for this weekend. As I was heading to that section of
the aisle, I happened to notice the costumes that were out and about.
And lo and behold I saw something that really ticked me off....they
have a "Blind Referee" costume on the racks. It comes with the shades,
a cane, and a basketball referee uniform. Now, I am not blind
myself...but I thought that was just messed up and wrong, to say it
nicely. So, I picked it up to look on the back to find out the
"maker"....its a Walmart brand costume.
We of the NFB have worked so hard to bring blindness to a positive
light. I see this "costume" as a way to ridicule and bring negativity
to what it means to be blind, and they pisture on the front of this
costume package doesn't help either in my view. Now, Im not sure if
anything or what can be done about it or not but I wanted to bring this
to your attention. I do hope something can be done about this though.
Thanks all,
Monika Reinholz
NFB-CO member, CS affiliate
CABS member
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