What he's not so well known for is his time in prison as an adolescent for a racially motivated assault on a Vietnamese man, which left the victim blind in one eye.
"We can't, at this point, make ourselves victims and blind ourselves.
I've read these sentiments before and I've seen how overeager people can be with their icons -- to the point of falling victims to blind spots.
Such reports are distressingly frequent: more than 120 people died from tainted alcohol in West Bengal state in 2011, and Uttar Pradesh saw dozens of drinking casualties in 2013, with some victims going blind.
In a small but unpredictable number of cases, however, the vaccinia pox itself runs wild and leaves its victims scarred, blinded or sometimes even dead.
The blog went on: "I have always found it distasteful and unattractive the suggestion that as the victim was blind drunk she therefore unable to give her consent to sex, or more to the point, she gave her consent which she would not have given had she been sober.
As the narrator, William Conrad, reminded us week after week, the protagonist was a victim of blind justice.
Ciprì, this master director of photography, managed to bring me along for the ride, a dangerous, suspense-filled ride, shoulder to shoulder with the silent, brooding Salvo, the modern-day Samurai-slash-contract-killer and the sister of his latest victim, the blind, beautiful Rita.
Another example of how the "perfect victim" paradigm blinds us to the injustices faced by those who don't fit its construct is our willful ignorance of the most severe human rights violation in the United States today -- the mass incarceration of poor black and Latino men and youth due to the 'war on drugs,' a failed policy that has not led a decrease in drug use or availability.
