Helen Keller, An Underrated Deaf and Blind Heroin
So apparently there seem to be a smear campaign against Helen Keller based on her white privilege. But then, an organization named after her thinks this is a misguided view of her history, and wants to change the conversation.
Sue Pilkilton, director of the Helen Keller Birthplace Museum in Tuscumbia, spoke up saying focusing on Helen's race is just wrong, considering her life time achievements, and all the good she did for others.
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Sue went on to clarify that, Keller's legacy is tied to activism, education and breaking barriers for hearing and sight-impaired people of all races, genders and status -- and all the chatter about white privilege detracts from her life's work.
This was sparked by remarks by Anita Cameron, an advocate of The point Black disability rights, made over the weekend. When Anita remarked, according to TMZ, "..Helen was likely patched through to the right people as a result of being white ... whether she knew it or not..."
This got folks speculating how Helen was wealthy and/or how she came from a rich family...riches amassed from a cotton plantation thanks to slaves her father is recorded to have owned...which according to trolls, somehow compromises her, Helen's, great works and awesome legacy.
Sentiments that got Sue explaining how despite the fact that indeed her family did receive an income from a cotton plantation,"...they were far from aristocrats or big ballers.." Which, in my humble opinion, I think she shouldn't have had to.
Anyway here's what I think, Helen Keller's life time achievements is clear prove that she, for Heroin earned each on every award, title and even more deserves to be respected. Helen certainly refirmed that disability was, and surely is, NOT inability. And that infact totally overshadows her skin's colour and its speculated trivial previledges, period.
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