Help Me Eliminate the R-Word
Hey everybody. I want to tell you about something that’s very important to me, and reach out to my friends and fans for some support.
For the past two years, I’ve been working with a charity organization called Best Buddies (bestbuddies.org). What we do is help people that have intellectual and developmental diseases (IDDs) realize their full potential and help them become productive members of mainstream society by fostering one-on-one friendships, employment, and leadership opportunities. Best Buddies has helped hundreds of thousands of people all across the globe, and I’ve seen personally how their support has changed many lives.
Right now, Best Buddies is supporting a website called R-word.org, which began a movement attempting to eliminate the use of the “R”-word in order to describe those with learning disabilities. This is one of the most demeaning and hurtful words in the English language, and we need to remove it from our vocabulary. If you have a moment, please go to the website R-word.org, and pledge your support. You don’t have to donate money (although you can, of course), just go to the site and leave a comment about your pledge to end the use of that terrible word.
If you do pledge, feel free to leave a comment here and let me know about it. Thanks again for your support.
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