[nfb-talk] Stupidity running amuck on the Colbert Report!

Joshua Lester JLester8462 at pccua.edu
Sat Nov 16 02:28:33 UTC 2013


I don't have Twitter either, but we can read the tweets on the site.
There's a link to the video on the Twitter page, so you can still access it.
Blessings, Joshua
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For those of us who don’t have and will never have twitter, (me for example) would you mind finishing the story?


Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in!

Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user!

On Nov 15, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Joshua Lester <JLester8462 at pccua.edu> wrote:

> Two nights ago, my friends, the Blind Boys of Alabama were guests on Stephen Colbert's show on Commedy Central.
> Colbert had the nerve to ask Jimmy Carter, (the leader of the group,) a stupid question.
> "As a blind person, does racism seem ridiculous to you, since you can't tell what race somebody is?"
> What's next?
> Not only is the question offensive from a racial standpoint, but it's offensive from the blindness perspective!
> I would have asked to have my group removed from the show, but Jimmy educated Mr. Colbert, and handled it with grace!
> There's a link to this ignorance on the group's Twitter page.
> http://www.twitter.com/blindboys
> Blessings, Joshua
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