[il-talk] Fwd: [Colorado-talk] Walmart issue

[Araceli Avina]

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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