[nfbwatlk] Use of word "vision" to describe professionalsandservices in the blindness field

[marty]

Amen.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Jarvis" <carjar at olypen.com>
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Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Use of word "vision" to describe 
professionalsandservices in the blindness field


> This is a great resolution.
> The replacement of blind with the word vision is like running fingernails 
> up
> a chalk board.  To me, the central point in this resolution is,  "...and
> that the blind will choose what we call ourselves, our programs, our
> education, and our services..."
> As long as others, in particular professionals, believe that they can tell
> us who we are, we will not be equal, first class participants in our 
> world.
> When Community Services for the Blind and Partially Sighted changed their
> name to Vision Services, I would call from time to time to request some of
> their vision service.  They had no sense of humor, but I felt that maybe I
> helped them rethink the name.
> We live in strange times.  We are turning out graduates from college who
> have been trained to "think" in sound bites...when they think at all.  But
> they are never taught to question what is being fed to them.
>
> Carl Jarvis, the blind man not the vision man
>
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