That's true. There are blind people who are Trump supporters. They are
misguided. All of the working people and middle income people who voted for him
and who still support him are deluded, and they don't understand what is in
their own interests. And it isn't only Evangelical Christians. However, if the
Democratic Party had been concerned about the needs of the majority of people
in the US, rather than with pleasing its wealthy supporters, Bill Clinton would
have been a different kind of President. We wouldn't have had a George W. Bush.
We wouldn't have had a 9/11 attack or an Iraq war. Our history might have been
very different and Donald Trump would never have had a chance to be elected.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Mostafa
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 4:59 PM
To: blind-democracy <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; dselset@xxxxxxx; Jennifer
Ford <dandjford88@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: "No Blind Need Apply"...sign on Trump Tower
Miriam, Donald Trump is broadly idolised among white southern evangelists.
There are plenty of pro Trump protagonists within blind faith folks.
On 9/13/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would love to forward this to every blindness list I'm on for all
those blind Trump supporters to read. But I just don't feel like
dealing with the fallout. If you only knew what hysteria there was on
the BARD Talk list because of the announcement of Woodward's book,
Fear, first being on Bookshare and then yesterday, on BARD. I have my
own criticisms of all these books but these people just refuse to
believe what the books report. First it was Michael Wolff's book, now this
one.
Miriam
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Cc: delores selset <dselset@xxxxxxx>; Jennifer Ford
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Subject: [blind-democracy] "No Blind Need Apply"...sign on Trump Tower
It would be interesting to peek into Donald Trumps mind and see what
he thinks of America's Blind Citizens. The following note could give
us a hint.
Carl Jarvis
President Donald Trump allegedly ordered an architect not to include
braille in Trump Tower elevator panels because "no blind people" would
live in his building—even after being informed that excluding the
tactile writing system is against federal law.
The alleged interaction was recounted by Barbara Res, who led
construction at the Trump Organization, in an opinion piece in the New
York Daily News on Wednesday.
"What's this?" Trump, noticing the small raised dots, reportedly asked
the architect who went to his office to show what the residential
elevator interiors would look like.
"Braille," the architect responded.
Trump apparently demanded that the architect take the feature out.
"We can't," the architect replied. "It's the law."
"Get rid of the [expletive] braille. No blind people are going to live
in Trump Tower," Trump shouted, according to Res. "Just do it."
The architect pushed back, making Trump yet more mad. The future
president also apparently called the architect weak, considered
architects and engineers to be weak unlike construction workers, and
enjoyed tormenting weak people.
Trump ordered "outrageous or just plain stupid ideas, both legal and
illegal. Sometimes those lines were blurred," Res wrote.