[blindlaw] I'm Confused - RE: Canes and Blindness along withthechanging color of the cane

Steve P. Deeley stevep.deeley at insightbb.com
Thu Apr 1 20:17:01 UTC 2010


Why don't we just let each city and municipality use what ever color traffic 
lights they choose to install.  Do you know the meaning of uniformity???

Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark BurningHawk" <stone_troll at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] I'm Confused - RE: Canes and Blindness along 
withthechanging color of the cane


> Can't resist:
>
> I, personally,would like to switch the color of my mobility tool
> because I want it to be *ONLY* that; a mobility tool.  I frankly don't
> like the associations attached to the white cane as a white cane, nor
> do I like the color and its connotations of surrender and
> helplessness.  I don't like the construction o the cane as is,
> designed above all else to be light and to vibrate easily, allowing
> for sensitivity to surfaces.  I also think that a cane should serve
> more than just one purpose as a tool, and in earlier posts I have
> pointed out that, as a weapon, for one example, the cane as designed
> now fails utterly.  I can speak from experience to say that sometimes
> a weapon is a good thing to have--no where did Lao Tsu say "Speak
> softly and carry a long, slender, flimsy stick." :)
>
> Since I find the whole concept of using a long poking / tapping device
> to find out about your environment to be archaic and clumsy, very
> narrow-minded thinking, if I am ever forced to adopt such a strategy,
> I would like said device to serve more than just that poking/tapping
> purpose.  I also do *NOT* want attention drawn to me over blindness,
> as I don't identify myself as a "blind man," but rather as a man; I
> just happen to be blind, and that only some of the time--the rest of
> the time, I just can't see.  It's this image I prefer to put forth,
> however misunderstood it might be, to the world; not that of a person
> who demands the world take note of him as possibly needing help,
> possibly allowing himself to be led about by the hand, and signaling
> that he accepts a second-class status.  That's my position on the
> whole color thing, and my reasoning for the posts I sent last week.  I
> am not advocating for one second that blindness should be ignored or
> is something to be ashamed of, but neither is it something to identify
> with or be proud of in its own right.  Who out there says, "When I
> grow up, I want to be a blind person!"  Being proud of overcoming
> obstacles created by others' opposition to / fear of blindness is
> another thing altogether.
>
> Mark BurningHawk
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> Namaste!
>
>
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