Welcome to THIS edition of GOOD QUESTION, brought to you exclusively by THISENT.com! I’m your host, “Word Heavyweight Champion” Mr. Joe Walker.
Throughout my illustrious career as an entertainment writer and journalist, I’ve been blessed with opportunities to speak with many notable and famous persons. The same can be said about the writing career of Victoria Hart Glavin. One of those she spoke with was hip-hop standout Blind Fury!
During their conversation Victoria asked Fury THIS good question: How did you fare as a blind person that went to the regular neighborhood school?
He answered, “It made me prejudice.
It made me feel out of place. Not so much out of place in going to regular school because I felt normal, but when I met my first blind person.
Ever since meeting my first blind person I never wanted to live like them or be stereotyped like them. Blind people have a sheltered way about them. They don’t get out and go and do. They don’t have people who correct things about them. Blind people have these ticks that are called blindisms. All blind people have blindisms.
You know how some blind people walk around with their head cocked to the side or how some people sit down and rock back and forth or poke at their eyes? Some people talk with their hands over their eyes all the time. Some blind people just twist their hands and fingers all day, and some blind people just fidget like J-Breezy.
Me, I was brought up different. My momma taught me early on, ‘You do that again and I’m gonna pop you in your head!’
I didn’t go to blind school. My mother was against it. My mother’s approach was that the real world is a sighted world and therefore you need to grow up around sighted people. She felt that learning how to be independent as a blind person would be better for learning to function in a sighted world.
So, when I met these people that rocked back and forth and did these different things I thought, Wow, what are these people doing?! I felt really out of place.” |THIS.
[Victoria Hart Glavin and Mr. Joe Walker]
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