![]() ![]() ![]() In doing that, JJ stood up for all of us who are impacted by disability, and who were outraged about the mocking incident. It’s worth mentioning that a 12-year-old had the insight and confidence to stand up for himself against a bully on a national scale. However, not because it makes for a good human interest story. It’s true, that it’s worth mentioning that he’s disabled. According to the Washington Post story, he put his anti-Trump statements into the device to vocalize his protests, which resulted in a pretty unpleasant situation, to put it mildly, “Trump supporters near them started pushing her son’s wheelchair, and calling her a ‘child abuser’ and telling others to ‘grab her p-y.’ The boy and his family were escorted from the arena, she said.” 8 Trump made fun of disabled people,’ JJ said.” Ī lot of the discussion about JJ is about the fact that he has cerebral palsy and uses a computer to speak. Instead, he asked his mother to take him to a Trump rally so he could protest, “’I wanted to go because Donald J. JJ heard what Trump said, and wasn’t going to let it slide. Yet another interesting chapter to this story occurred when JJ Holmes, age 12, did something about the comments. That’s it, and that’s something we applaud him for, he dealt with the negative press head-on. He’s taking a stand against someone who treated him badly. Why would an acclaimed journalist like Kovaleski want to do that? He’s not grandstanding. Now, the part about grandstanding goes back to the post we shared about Perez Hilton’s website talking about using disability to get money. All in all, I would say around a dozen times, I’ve interacted with him as a reporter while I was at the Daily News.’” About a dozen times, so they have met. ‘I’ve talked to him at press conferences. Here is a follow-up quote from the reporter himself, “’I’ve interviewed him in his office,’ he said. One on the vanity of the reporter, one on him using his disability to “grandstand,” and another on the future of newspapers.įirst, let’s talk a bit about whether or not Trump met Kovaleski. ‘He should stop using his disability to grandstand and get back to reporting for a newspaper that is rapidly going down the tubes.’” Trump has deflected from the issue using a few new attacks. Then, Trump followed up with this, “’Serge Kovaleski must think a lot of himself if he thinks I remember him from decades ago - if I ever met him at all, which I doubt I did,’ he said, CNN reported. So I started imitating somebody - I didn’t speak to the guy - somebody that was groveling.’” It Gets Worse I didn’t know it, I didn’t know it at all. Instead, this was Trump’s response, “’I didn’t know what he looked like. So now that you’ve seen the video, you think an apology would be in order, right? That won’t be happening. If you type “Kovaleski” into Google, the first thing that pops up is “Kovaleski and Trump.” Don’t know the scandal we’re talking about? CNN does a pretty succinct job of explaining it. Sadly, these awesome things about Kovaleski have been a bit overshadowed by Trump’s impersonation of him. Did you know he went to the College of William & Mary where he earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy?.Did you know that he received a Polk Award for Military Reporting?.Did you know he won a Pulitzer Prize as part of the team that covered the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal?.So before we get to the scandal part of this post, here are a few facts about him: Kovaleski is an excellent investigative reporter and that’s why we should know his name. A Great Journalist Should Be Known for His Writing Some people have disabilities you can see, others don’t, and still more people will just have a temporary disability that will go away with time. This is a blog about inclusive technology, and the spirit behind digital accessibility is driven by a general understanding that everyone is different. What can we say that hasn’t already been said about Donald Trump’s treatment of Serge Kovaleski? There are countless stories, reports, and impassioned commentaries on the subject. ![]()
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