Thread: Marlee Matlin
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Old 02-27-2008, 03:02 PM   #11 (permalink)
jillio
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Originally Posted by AquaBlue View Post
Yes but the Deaf have achieved more in history than she has...why not praise them more than Matlin?
She is in the public eye, and quite often she is the only deaf person many hearies have ever seen, even from a distance. Hearies need a readily accessable model of a successful deaf person to open their minds to learning about other important individuals.
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