- Check out this touching video,
this is a principal,
who is able to reveal a whole new world
of beauty to a student who's severely color blind.
- [Scott] They're all yours,
okay they're all yours.
Let's see what it does.
(laughter and applause)
So, what do you think, then?
Look pretty cool?
- [Woman] He's crying.
- [Scott] That's awesome, hey come here,
come here dude.
(audience clapping)
Mom, you better get in there too, right?
That is so awesome.
I told you he's gonna be a little emotional.
(applause)
- Say hello to Johnathan, his mom, Carol
and principal Scott Henson.
Y'all stand up for them.
(crowd applause)
You are an amazing principal.
First of all, I didn't know these glasses existed.
So what made you give Jonathan glasses?
- Thank you, Kelly.
I'm also color blind and yeah,
so my family gave it to me two years ago,
so I got the experience color,
just like Jonathan did, two years ago.
So, our science teacher, Mrs. Foley,
teaches genetics every year, okay,
back in Lakeview and so I get to go in and talk
about color blindness every year.
We knew Jonathan was severely colorblind,
so we invited the parents in
and the whole world got to see what Jonathan experienced
and it was genuine, it was authentic and it was real.
(crowd applause)
- [Kelly] Yeah!
So what's it like, like, what's the world like for you?
Coz that's almost like a baby,
when they come into the world they see, like,
black and white right?
And then they start to bleed in with color,
like color shows to bleed in,
what's that like?
You now see in color, what's your favorite color?
- Oh, my favorite color with my glasses on, it's now blue.
(laughter)
- I love it.
- But it's kind of hard to describe what it's like,
but for example, like, driving down the road,
there's, like, the green highway signs, the red stop signs,
all of those really stick out to me.
- That's remarkable,
I mean the science is so cool.
Is it Mrs. Foley, that you said?
- Yes.
- Give it up for Mrs. Foley!
(crowd applause)
So, Carol, how did it feel to have your son's moment
go viral and around the world?
like people were--
- Do you want me to be honest?
- Yeah, did it freak you out?
- So, yeah, I, very overwhelming, you know, to begin with
and to quote Jonathan, this has been amazing
but I never wanna do it again.
But it's also been very humbling,
you know, God has given this short period of light
and we discussed and decided to take this light,
that God has given us, and help others.
And we have this,
we've started a GoFundMe,
to help other children who need colorblind glasses
and I checked before we came, we're at 32,000 dollars.
(crowd applause)
And the company that we're going to be working with
is, every pair that we purchase,
they're giving us another pair for free.
- [Kelly Wow.
- So, that doubles the amount of children that we can help.
- [Kelly] That's so cool!
(crowd applause)
Well, thank you so much
for bringing a bit of color in our lives,
I'm so happy you get to see color like that, Johnathan.