UPDATE: Deaf People Want to Give Mandela Memorial 'Fake' Sign Language Interpreter the Finger
Who videobombs a funeral? And no, this isn’t a political joke; I’m talking about the guy standing next to the president throwing up the equivalent of gang signs.
According to the hearing-impaired communities everywhere on the planet, that dude may as well have been picking his nose on international television, because he knew about as much sign language as an 18-month-old baby putting its hands together to say “more.”
Wilma Newhoudt, the first deaf person elected to South Africa’s parliament and a vice president of the World Federation of the Deaf, said:
“Shame on this male so called interpreter on the stage,” she wrote on Twitter during the memorial service.
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