[blindlaw] Adorn the unused strap not your cane
Steve P. Deeley
stevep.deeley at insightbb.com
Mon Mar 29 19:51:16 UTC 2010
Great e-mail Bruce!
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From: "Bruce E. Naccari" <bnaccari at cox.net>
To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 3:08 PM
Subject: [blindlaw] Adorn the unused strap not your cane
> As former Legal Counsel to New Orleans Human Relations Commission, I used
> to teach classes on the White Cane Safety laws and anti-discrimination
> laws affecting public accommodations to police recruits and police
> officers studying to be examined for possible promotions. At least here
> in the Isle d’Orleans, it is hard enough as it is to get peace officers
> to understand and enforce and the public to obey these laws. The long
> white cane clearly identifies those who are entitled to the intended
> safety and social participation benefits of these laws. In my opinion any
> alterations or adornments that change the white cane itself will only
> lead to confusion and make compliance and comprehension and enforcement
> even less likely in the long run. But: may I suggest, if you don’t’ use
> the strap, why not use it too individuate or adorn your cane? Depending
> on your taste, you might append to the cane strap but not the cane
> itself any number of sorts of things : bear bells, religious pendants,
> Native American medicine bags or feathers, a reticule like HRH Elizabeth
> II’s, ludicrous rearview mirror hanging baubles, bows, medallions—and
> this will leave your cane itself an unequivocal and legally-significant
> and reflective white. If I were you though I would not append anything
> from the strap that makes annoying clanking sounds as it hits the cane
> during walking movement or in places like theatres restaurants, places
> of worship, etc. And anything too heavy on the strap will destroy the
> usual balance of your cane and make it give less intelligible information
> to you. I have used cane straps in this way during New Orleans Carnival
> celebrations but not at other times; and whatever bells and decorations I
> hung from the strap left my long white cane the clearly white it should
> be.
>
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