Athletes, families wounded by Obama remark
March 21st, 2009From the Los Angeles Times:
Special Olympics bowler Caitlin Cox and her mother, Suzanne Thompson, were hurt by President Obama’s joke on the Tonight Show.
… as a mother and special education teacher, Thompson said, internally she was crushed by the president’s insensitivity. She knows how destructive such stereotypes can be, and it infuriated her that an organization dedicated to empowering millions of people with developmental disabilities would be reduced to a late-night punch line.
“My heart just sank,” she said. “To have the president make a comment like that when we’re working so hard to change hearts and minds is just devastating.”
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