Reblogged from The World of Special Olympics:
The following is a guest post in the form of an open letter from Special Olympics athlete and global messenger John Franklin Stephens to Ann Coulter after this tweet during last night's Presidential debate.
Dear Ann Coulter,
Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?
I am a little fat. I like food; what can I say? I have dull hair: mousey. I don’t wear much make-up and have no need of a dressing table. If I look like a bag lady, I chose my own clothes. If I look nice, the Hub picked them for me. Despite all this, I am a little vain. This photograph is from 2003. I had to go back that far to find one of me that I liked. But I don’t really care: my husband still thinks I’m beautiful and if he doesn’t, he loves me enough to lie about it. I’m lucky. I have two boys. They never lie to me. Still, you can't have everything.
SHOW ME THE WORLD!!
the life of animals
Let's Get Digital
A Community Website For Stockport Town Centre, Lancashire Hill & Heaton Norris.
Hubby’s sister was tested and her IQ was 70, considered low but educable. After her parents went to a nursing home, she was fortunate to find an apartment in a sheltered building. She supported herself as a janitor at various places, the last one being KFC. In 2007, she died from internal bleeding. We miss her so much. She was mentally retarded, yes, but everyone who knew her loved and admired her. The church was packed with friends attending her funeral.
As one public figure after another embarasses them self with a dumb tweet, I think folks may need to step back and take a deep breath. Look at it this way, at least she did not send a photo of her naked body. Dianne
I went to the site to read this tweet. AC was referring to Mr. O, not people with disabilities. The term is juvenille and used to mock, does not refer to any person with a disability these days.
It is disingenous to assume Anne was referring to those with disabilities. The term is anitquated and says more about Anne’s age than anything as it was a common insult back in the dark ages.
We are not all politically correct. However, my daughter teaches kids with disabilities and no one uses the R word around her. It is terribly out of date and they could die.
This …Anne, is the one with a problem – she shouldn’t be allowed to be a lawyer and definitely not an official chosen person.
Terrible .. this is bullying. The whole word “retard” should be forbidden – we are all on different levels of IQ, but we all have a place and a purpose – it’s an insult to any living soul.
Good on John!!
Ms C has an eminently foot-sized mouth, and doesn’t waste it.
Hey, why am I not getting notification of your posts? According to the heading I am a fully-paid-up and accredited follower. Anyway, I was just wondering where you wos, as our local Injuns say, when a comment on my blog was from a blogger blogging on the subject of … YOU! And of a freaky incident concerning you, just to add to the synchronicity.
I genuinely did not know what the “R” word meant, and had to follow all the links to find out. Sometimes these instant and facile social networks can do real harm in stirring up aggro. I’d love to meet that John Stephens chap – he seems really nice from his writing.
Thanks Tilly for the reblog. It’s important.
Good for John, an excellent piece by him, taking her apart without being in any way as offensive as she was.
Such a polite response from John to such a X#$%^%$##$%%^wit
TY for adding your voice to the list of people who have responded to that insensitive woman… Sadly, she persists.