Posted on 10/10/2009 5:46:51 AM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
Mind boggling.....
Q - Why was Hellen Keller’s leg yellow?
A - Her dog was blind too.
***Her physical resemblance to Hillary is remarkable as are her political leanings.***
You’re right! Her smile is pleasant, but the eyes give away her real self.
Helen was blind. What's Hillary's excuse for her dead eyes?
I'm reading a book called "Lies my Teacher Told Me", about the sad, sorry state of history education, and was surprised to discover things about Helen that I didn't know.
The average school text covers her childhood, and education under Anne Sullivan, and then says NOTHING, nada, zip, zero, zilch about the rest of her life (60+ more years). It just wasn't worth mentioning that she was an avowed socialist, USSR sympathizer, etc., etc.
“The eyes are the windows to the soul”
There’s your answer.
bttt
Interesting.
I doubt that people with opposing views to Annie Sullivan were granted access to Hellen Keller, or even if they had access, they probably didn’t have the skill to communicate with her, because Annie Sullivan basically invented the means to communicate with her.
Anne died in 1936, so there were 32 years Helen was alive without her. I take your point that the communication was funneled through Anne (and therefore controlled by her).
Still, this stuff is worth knowing, but instead the history classes (in high school and below) teach us that she worked incredibly hard to become somewhat functional, graduated college, and then absolutely nothing happened to her for sixty-four years.
Keller was responsible for her own views, although they were influenced by Mark Twain and others. Sullivan didn’t need to control access or information, since her friends were pretty much all radicals anyways.
And no, she never changed her views, and Keller lived into the 60s.
I thought the same thing!
My question exactly. I dont believe that Helen Keller ever wrote anthing — it was an act created by Anne Sullivan — who oddly, is not in the statue presenting Keller learning the word water as if by magic.
I really don’t think so. She lived with Sullivan her whole life. Access to her came via Sullivan. All the exams at Radcliffe, etc wree taken with assistants at her side. THe entire story is a fabrication.
When I first saw her on the quarter I thought it was someone in an electric chair...
It would have been nice had Hank Aaron been on the quarter, although he’s undoubtedly glad he wasn’t as he’d have to be dead to qualify. I wonder whether Duke Ellington on the D.C. quarter is the first black person on a US coin? Except for Leute’s black oarsman in Washington’s Crossing the Delaware.
who was helen’s personal nurse in the early 1960’s?
You forgot to mention that she advocated for the French Revolution as well: “I am not for peace at all hazards. I regret this war (World War I), but I have never regretted the blood of the thousands spilled during the French Revolution” Those are her own words.
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