[nabs-l] Turkey Humor and a Blind Cartoon

[Alberto Arreola]

I have no problem with these types of things, I actually like to read them.
I love looking for jokes to read about blindness some are pretty funny, and
others are a bit rood, but oh well.

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Carrie Gilmer
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 10:42 AM
To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
Subject: [nabs-l] Turkey Humor and a Blind Cartoon

Geetings,

A relative forwarded to me some Thanksgiving humor~there were five cartoons
and photographs with the quote "ha these are very funny". One cartoon showed
this: a man with a cane which was red half the way up and the handle was
crooked at the top, he wore dark glasses, his cane was held out forward but
not touching anything but the ground, he was sort of looking up a bit, he
appeared to be walking amidst a flock of turkeys who each had a caption
above their heads which read "Moo-Moo".

 

Wondering what your reaction to a relative or anyone or just the cartoon
might be. And what you think the ramifications of this perpetuated humor
are/might be. I did something about this to the relative already and once
wrote to a Pulizter Prize cartoonist about his cartoojn portrayal which I
thought disrespectful and perpetuating of false ideas. I also wonder how
important you think it might be to write to the originator/creator of such
things after the fact when it can not be changed anymore. I know what I
think, and I know when I have "complained" I am typically the only one they
have heard from, and I think it makes it harder. "No one else found this
'bad'".but I wonder what you all think.

 

 Best,

 

Carrie Gilmer

 

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