[stylist] email to Opra

[Aziza]

Exactly.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:17 PM
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> Very good point. What's the saying? Don't judge me until you walk a mile 
> in
> my shoes? Something like that.
>
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> Behalf Of Aziza
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:03 PM
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> Well, no. You wouldn't, and neither would I. Because neither of us are
> dealing with it. Sighted people shouldn't be thought to understand us, 
> just
> accept and work with us.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:42 PM
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>
>> Hmmm, that's a good point. A lady who went to the CCB at the same time
>> I did had to use a wheelchair a lot of the time. She got upset with us
>> a few times because we failed to understand the unique things she went
>> through. I guess I still don't truly understand it.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> On Behalf Of Judith Bron
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:41 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [stylist] email to Opra
>>
>> Angela, It's not just blind people but the same narrow mindedness that
>> drives other areas of bigotry is used against the handicapped.
>> Bigotry, regardless of who is targetted, is an ignorant reaction to
>> those people others can't, or won't, understand.  Judith
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
>> To: "'NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:58 PM
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>>
>>> Right on, Judith. Its funny how narrow-mindedness and bigotry get
>>> overlooked when blind people are the victims.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>> On Behalf Of Judith Bron
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:16 PM
>>> To: Stylist
>>> Subject: [stylist] email to Opra
>>>
>>> Here is what I sent to Opra.  I couldn't access the form on her site
>>> so I sent it to Ann Tailor at NFB.  Judith
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I find your opinion on the movie, "Blindness", appalling.  Perhaps
>>> you saw the heroic woman getting her due but I'm surprised that you
>>> didn't look at the plot of the movie and see that her heroism is on
>>> the back of blind people.  Blind people, as depicted in the movie,
>>> are helpless, disgusting and totally dependent on the sighted
>>> community to
>> even use a bathroom.
>>> This
>>> depiction underestimates the progress of the blind community over the
>>> past century.  If you go to an NFB convention I'm positive you will
>>> see clean floors, educated people having a good time while enjoying
>>> intelligent conversation and individuals eating with the same manners
>>> most mothers teach their children . Weather it was intentional or
>>> not, your article tells the world that the positive depiction of a
>>> woman is what stands out in this movie that paints one segment of the
>>> disabled community in a way that is not only disgusting, but totally
>>> inaccurate.  These comparisons in movies or books when talking about
>>> o ther minorities or social underdogs have usually been called as
>>> what they are, bigoted, narrow minded portrayals.
>>>
>>> Judith Bron
>>>
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