[nfbwatlk] Fwd: [Wcb-l] NFB's new look: response to Lisa

[Carl Jarvis]

Once again Lisa, I respect your position.  We disagree.  No doubt about it.
Oppressed people, and I submit that we blind folks are oppressed, rarely 
have the luxury of picking the "right" time to stand up against their 
oppressors.
We will always be threatened and told that what we demand is too costly to 
society.  However, this is also an effective technique for keeping oppressed
people "in their place".
My grandmother Jarvis, daughter of a slave owner, loved to say, "I have 
nothing against colored people, as long as they stay in their place".
In her mind any move toward integration would be too disruptive and costly 
to the public at large.  Any black man or woman who demanded equal treatment
under the law were malcontents and trouble makers.
And so it is with us blind folk.  We totally look away from the oppressive 
cost to our people, the cost of second class citizenship, and eagerly agree 
with
the propaganda that it is we who will create an unbearable cost.
Our difference is that you buy it and I don't.
Respectfully,
Carl Jarvis
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Subject: [nfbwatlk] Fwd: [Wcb-l] NFB's new look: response to Lisa


> My second response to Carl.
>
> Lisa Owen
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