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The Why Factor: Why I'm Not Just Blind

BBC World Service - The Essential, The Why Factor: Why I'm Not Just Blind

Why must blind people either be inspirational or deserving pity?

Lee Kumutat examines why blindness comes to define the identity of people who have little or no sight. Why must blind people either be inspirational or deserving pity? 

(image: Camille Wilson, teacher at a regular inner-city school, Kingston Jamaica)

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