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from: ANDY BARACCO
date: 1997-07-31 22:35:00
subject: Re: Fight Magoo on the Internet

From: Andy Baracco 
Subject: Re: Fight Magoo on the Internet
I am Italian, and a Roman Catholic. All of my life, I have had to listen
to Mafia jokes and jokes about the Pope. You just have to get past it and
go on. What ever happened to  "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but
names will never hurt me?.
 On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Mary Shandrow wrote:
> 
> 
> I do not think that anything that insults the blind whether they be
> partially sighted or not is a waste of time.  As it has previously been
> pointed out on the list, today's children are tomorrow employers.  If we
> don't fight this now, then the problems of employment for the blind will
> be even bigger than they are now.
> 
> There is a pretty good chance that I may have a blind child, and I do not
> wnt him or her to live with the amount of ignorance that her father and I
> have dealt with.  I say that if the NFB can make it better forblind people
> now, and in the future by fighting this Magoo thing, then I say two
> things.  First, GO FOR IT!!! Second, Is there anything I can do to help?
> 
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