[NFBF-L] A Video of Interest: The Breakfast Club Talking About Blind People and Gun Ownership

[Jorge Hernandez]

Well,

 

We should have a road trip with our colleagues to the Breakfast Club to
solidify the fact that we as blind people are just normal people.

 

I can just imagine what would the Breakfast club say about me or any blind
person who owns a boat  and loves to fish.  By the way, I cut my own bait
and I  still have all my digits in tacked, or when I snorkel around the
beautiful coral reefs in the Florida keys.  

 

Normal people do that as well, don't they?

 

Jorge Hernandez 

 

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Subject: [NFBF-L] A Video of Interest: The Breakfast Club Talking About
Blind People and Gun Ownership

 

Greetings: 

 

I am sharing with you information about a video composed by the National
Federation of the Blind in response to a Breakfast Club episode that
perpetuates the misconceptions about blind people. This is not a commentary
on whether or not you need to own a gun or about gun control, but the belief
that blind people are incapable. Listen and let's see if we can start a
discussion on our list serv! 

 


A Breakfast Response to Low Expectations:


Every day, the National Federation of the Blind raises the expectations of
blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people
and our dreams. An example of low expectations was displayed in a segment of
The Breakfast Club radio show regarding a news story of a blind man named
Terry Sutherland, from Indiana, who acquired a gun license but felt that he
shouldn't have been because he is blind. The Breakfast Club agreed with him
and began to perpetuate misconceptions about blind people. We address those
misconceptions in a video featuring national board members, Jim Marks and
Shawn Callaway, and Federationists, Danielle McCann and Anil Lewis.
<https://youtu.be/V8HwahweBJI?si=FFWzzB_oBtomMNqZ> Watch and share the
video, "Serving Up the Truth: A Breakfast Response on What It Really Means
to Be Blind."

 

 

 

  Camille Tate, president

National Federation of the Blind of Florida 

Board of Directors 

 <http://www.nfbflorida.org/> www.nfbflorida.org

Tel: 321.372.4899

 

With love, hope and determination, we transform dreams into reality.

 

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