[blindlaw] I'm Confused - RE: Canes andBlindnessalongwiththechanging color of the cane

Steve P. Deeley stevep.deeley at insightbb.com
Fri Apr 2 00:58:23 UTC 2010


The guy doesn't get it!

Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell J. Thomas, Jr." <rthomas at rjtlawfirm.com>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] I'm Confused - RE: Canes 
andBlindnessalongwiththechanging color of the cane


> The color white is easier for drivers to see. Using a different color cane
> defeats this purpose. The laws are called "white cane" laws for a very 
> good
> reason.
>
> As blind people, We use a cane for mobility. Deaf people use hearing aids;
> people with mobility impairments use wheelchairs; some people use contact
> lenses. What is the problem? What is the issue?  We use a cane because we
> need to.
>
>
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> Respectfully,
>
>
>
> Russell J. Thomas, Jr.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joe Orozco
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 2:51 PM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] I'm Confused - RE: Canes and
> Blindnessalongwiththechanging color of the cane
>
> The question was not directed at me, but I feel the counter argument here
> may be a little stretched.  Traffic lights are for the safety of the 
> whole.
> White canes are for the identification of a few.  The government could 
> have
> just as easily decreed that canes should be a glaring yellow and achieve 
> the
> same level of safety it sought in limiting canes to the color white.  It 
> is
> my uneducated opinion that the government merely labeled these laws "White
> Cane laws" because they were literally translating the image of the cane,
> not because there was any real value in dictating that the canes be white.
> We're talking about a person's independent choice of mobility assistance,
> not the universal symbol of something like the handicap sticker for 
> parking.
> After all, service dogs are service dogs regardless of the breed or style 
> of
> harness the dog uses.
>
> Joe Orozco
>
> "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
> some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Steve P. Deeley
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 4:17 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] I'm Confused - RE: Canes and Blindness
> alongwiththechanging color of the cane
>
> 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
>> Skype and Twitter:  BurningHawk1969
>> Home:  Http://MarkBurningHawk.net/
>> Namaste!
>>
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