[stylist] email to Opra

[Judith Bron]

Like I said in an earlier post, that is the key to prejudice since the 
beginning of time.  "Not understanding" are the key words.
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>I think that their is an unfair and unnecessary blanket of shadow draped 
>carelessly over every disability. Few people care to peek beneath that 
>blanke to see what that disability is truly like in the lives of those 
>living with it.
>
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> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
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>> 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
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>> From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
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>> 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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