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5:13am January 10, 2014

➸ Why Do You Speak For the Disabled?

Over the weekend, two pieces of media came to my attention looking at the dialogue between the blind and the sighted. One, was the New York times op ed, “Why Do We Fear The Blind?” by Rosemary Mahoney. The second, is a video that has been shared both by disabled friends (with distaste) and able bodied friends (with approval). It is a video, without audio description (of course) and it shows a woman “fixing” a sign made by a blind homeless man. Initially it reads “Help me, I’m blind” but is changed into “It’s a Beautiful Day, but I can’t see it.”

Ugh that video was even more horrible than I expected. Especially how she didn’t say a word to the guy as she changed her sign, and in fact nobody said a word to him or even looked at him as they dropped their coins, and just, ew.

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    I didn’t even watch it, but that does sound even worse than I was expecting.
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    Ugh that video was even more horrible than I expected. Especially how she didn’t say a word to the guy as she changed...