From: shawn keen 
Subject: Re: MR. MAGOO CONCERNS
amen
At 05:50 AM 7/30/97 -0700, you wrote:
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>On 1997-07-07 NFB-Talk@NFBnet.org said:
> NF>I would like some fellow Federationist feedback on some
>concerns I
> NF>am having with respect to the Mr. Magoo situation.  It has been
>my
> NF>observation, and is historically so (as I have been remined by
> NF>numerous friends and family members) that publicity and
>controversy
> NF>of thisnature (threatened boycotts, etc) lead to a greater
>interest
> NF>than might have otherwise exiwsted in the offending movie,
>song,
> NF>commercial, book, etc.  
>This is also my opinion.  I agree that the Magoo image is poor
>and that we should oppose it.  However, like Dr. Jernigan said in
>his banquet speech, sometimes we have to pick our battles, and I
>think we should get our picketing priorities straight.  If we
>need to picket something it should be something more important.
>For instance the large corporations with the funds and
>wherewithal to employ and adapt facilities for blind persons but
>do not.
>
>Or the Lighthouses and other such industries that lay off blind
>people but keep sighted workers as was the case here in New
>Orleans in 1991.  After all, what is more important, opposing Mr.
>Magoo or getting blind persons jobs?
>
>In this case, we aren't going to stop Disney from making the film
>and I feel that the more attention we call to it the more
>interest it will spark.
>
>A classic example is the low budget film, "The Last Temptation of
>Christ," which probably would have gone nowhere had the Christian
>element not called so much attention to it.
>
>Harvey
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Shawn Keen
orange@texas.net	
www.eden.com/~orange
"love isn't blind, but the braille sure is fun."
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