The stage: Red Sox game, "Disability Awareness Day" or somesuch. So gentleman with autism is singing the National Anthem.
He appears to get stuck, and the audience picks up the song and finishes it with him.
The comments are generally favorable, and my initial (and still, overall) reaction was... "Nice of the crowd to join in."
Mileage apparently varies, with commenters chiming in (disregarding the ones who feel that everyone present should have been sent to re-education for daring to display some patriotism) about how the crowd in fact dissed the singer, and should have allowed him to finish the song his way, without just jumping in on their collective own, and how, in fact, by doing that, they dissed the whole disabled community by implying they weren't capable, etc.
I can see that point, to a point. But in the end I still think it was a net positive, and that some people's skins are just too thin for their own good. Hope they bundle up on sunny days.
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May 14 2011, 09:01 AM
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