(From CNN.)
Obama's joke was insensitive and wrong. Duh.
But the Special Olympics are handling it masterfully and turning it into an opportunity to start a public conversation on the way we deal with handicap in this country.
And I'm happy with that conversation finally happening.
The Special Olympics has launched a website known as the R-Word.org to spread awareness about this very issue. Chec it out!
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Bravo for them. I think that is great campaign strategy to raise awareness, because it's so true. And I fully admit sometimes I have slipped and used the R-word too, knowing full well that it would not cause as much controversy as it would if I said "Sp*c" or something (though I have one hell of a potty-mouth, so I'm not too surprised that my friends have just become jaded to it).
I really need to take a sensitive course, but in the meantime I will certainly try to be better and be more mindful of what I say. After all, "a sin repeated, is a sin permitted."
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