[Nfb-seniors] Special Accomodations. Was: Re: (no subject)

[Everett Gavel]

Classy message there, George.


Thanks for Helping Us to Recognize  Part of the 
Problem,
Everett


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Cassell" <apolloseven at earthlink.net>
>
> I really can't believe I'm hearing such a thing from 
> an NFB member on an NFB
> list.  Ask the government to subsidize us? 
> Rediculous!  Absurd!  Not to
> mention that such a thing goes entirely against 
> everything the NFB stands
> for.
>
> Being blind, we need to continue to perpetuate the 
> myth that we are just
> like any sighted person, without requiring any 
> special accomodations.  After
> all, that's why the NFB insisted that we, the blind, 
> stop being able to ride
> city busses for free, in spite of the fact that we 
> are experiencing an 80%
> unemployment / underemployment rate.  To continue to 
> keep doing so would
> make the blind appear to be somehow different from 
> those who can see,
> perhaps requiring some kind of special treatment. 
> And nothing could be
> further from the truth, could it?
>
> Just as good as any sighted person?  No way!  We're 
> better than sighted
> people, able to do everything they can do, and we can 
> do it better than
> them, too!
>
> That's why our NFB is constantly doing everything it 
> can to ensure that no
> blind person should ever have any kind of special 
> priviliges or advantages,
> like being able to rely on audible crossing signals 
> to tell us when the
> light is in our favor.  Of course we can figure that 
> out on our own.  And
> those who can't, will, of course, be run over and 
> killed, never having to
> ever worry about such things again.  And without such 
> stupid, blind  people
> running around any longer, the rest of us will seem a 
> lot smarter, won't we?
>
> I suggest that the NFB begin a new campaign, once 
> again trying to prove that
> being blind is better than being sighted.
>
> In the meantime, shouldn't we b blinding sighted 
> people, using our canes to
> poke them all in their eyes, similar to what Louis 
> Braille did to himself,
> with an awl in his father's workshop?  Blinding 
> himself.  Great idea!  What
> a role model for all of us!
>
> The only problem is that he stopped with blinding 
> only himself, and not
> everybody else around him as well.  But back then, I 
> guess there wasn't an
> NFB to suggest such things to them yet, was there?
>
> If nothing else, we should at least be consistant.
>
>