Hi Miriam,
This has already appeared on acb-chat and I'll be posting it on ACB-L today. My
shields will be up. Nice to see how quickly BARD now gets books made available
to us.
Bob Hachey
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Miriam Vieni
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:59 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: "No Blind Need Apply"...sign on Trump Tower
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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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 10:56 AM
To: blind-democracy <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: delores selset <dselset@xxxxxxx>; Jennifer Ford <dandjford88@xxxxxxxx>
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.
