During the speeches for Nelson Mandela 's funeral, there was a strange unknown man interpreting sign language to the deaf. There was a huge controversy whether this person can actually do sign language or not. Paul Breckell, chief executive of the U.K.-based charity Action on Hearing Loss, stated that this fraud isn't actually signing anything but just gibberish. Not only that, but also, it's been found that this fake had only 1 year of sign language experience. The fraud,
Thamsanqa Jantjie, to his defense, stated that he was distracted because he saw angels coming from heaven.
I really don't know what this nutjob is doing during at the speech. What the heck? You can read more Here
So many seem to be blaming Mr. Jantje; however, in my own opinion it is an outrage that security and coordinators of Mandela's memorial allowed a mentally ill man to be so close to the world's leaders. Not to mention if he only had a year of experience, who hired him? I only hope this outrage didn't distract anyone from honoring the hero, Mandela.
ReplyDeleteNo joke, when I saw the video of this, the guy's face gestures were so funny. Yet it does seem disrespectful, in my opinion, to hire a person who only has one year of sign language experience and who has no clue about what he's doing.
ReplyDeleteI actually thought the sign language guy's speech was better than Obama's.
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