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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi all, I just to have to say something and I hope that you will also take action. As a person who has devoted most of my career to inclusion I cannot sit on this without a call to action.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Not sure why, tiredness I guess, but by happenstance today I turned on my hotel TV today and was exposed to something that I find so offensive that I can keep silent. In a late night show, Jimmy Kimmel, presented a skit by Will Smith that was based on a blind referee, the display of the key person as a cane user who was trying to be a referee, and having not impact. This skit presents every that is wrong with the typical presentation of folks with blindness and low visions. It presents this group in such a negative light that I cannot chock it up to the usual excuses of we were just trying to be humorous. From my perspective it is similar to what we have overcome with we see the "jockey" statute on the front line.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I would hope that you would facilitate this effort by contacting the sponsor broadcaster, ABC, in bringing this reprehensible before their attention and that they take corporate action to insure that they present disability as a common life experience and additionally not use the impact of disability as a crass and baseless of humor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Those of you who know me can perhaps better articulate the point that I am trying to make. I am making my best effort to be articulate, but this is so upsetting to me that I am having a very hard time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ron Stewart<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>*******************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ron Stewart<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Managing Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Altformat Solutions LLC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>8300 West Weller St</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Yorktown, IN 47396</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mobile: 609 213-2190</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Fax: 765 405-1484<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ron@altformatsolutions.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>www.altformatsolutions.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>