[blindlaw] Pimp My Cane

Mon Mar 29 22:07:40 UTC 2010

Can we at least change the title of the thread? I hate to bring on the
groans that RJ received but this thing has gone beyond ridiculous.

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-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Aziza Cano
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 3:51 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Pimp My Cane

In my oppinion, the usefullness of my cane is this, and only this. It helps 
me travel safely and independently. I do not care if people know I'm blind 
or not. In fact, although I am perfectly comfortable with my blindness, and 
proud of it too, I'd rather people not identify me as blind on sight. I am 
not the Blind girl, I am a girl who happens to be blind. If my blindness is 
what people see first, the misconceptions are likely to take root deeper 
than they would if the people saw my personality and abilities before they 
saw the extent of my lack of vission.
Aziza
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve P. Deeley" <stevep.deeley at insightbb.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Pimp My Cane

> Suppose you are running into people without your cane--they may think 
> you
> are being smart, retarded or drunk.  People, guys in general, do not liked

> to be bumped.  That could cause you to be grabbed or punched.  At best, 
> you certainly will get some stern looks.  Better to have people know you 
> have a visual impairment.
> Steve-- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark BurningHawk" <stone_troll at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 9:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Pimp My Cane
>
>
>> I'm not quibbling with the white cane as a mobility tool.  However, 
>> recently a thread started here about carrying a white cane merely to 
>> identify oneself as blind, so as not to cause confusion when being 
>> unable to read name tags, etc., at a symposium or whatever.  It was 
>> put forth that canes should be carried, in addition to any value they 
>> may have as a mobility aid, merely to identify a blind person as 
>> blind, and to allow the sighted to give them a "handicap," in not 
>> being able to read name tags.  For this purpose, a sign declaring "I 
>> am blind, please act accordingly," would serve just as well, it seems 
>> to me, and the white cane then becomes a stigma-maker, not a tool. 
>> For purposes of this discussion, the "white," color of the cane 
>> becomes the "distress cry of the blind," or something; the 
>> identifying mark by which blind people are known and warn their 
>> surroundings that they are in fact in need of a handicap.  This is 
>> one reason why I want to use a cane that's other than white with a 
>> red tip.  It is very true that, even with my guide dog, when I wear 
>> sunglasses, I am often mistaken for a dog-walker, not a guide dog 
>> user.  It's like that old left-handed compliment, "No one would know 
>> you're blind, you do that so well."  That infuriates me when it's 
>> said to me.  It seems that some here are trying to avoid just this 
>> situation--being mistaken for a sighted person--when I should think 
>> that was the ultimate goal of any blind person--to blend in and not 
>> stand out.
>>
>> Mark BurningHawk
>> Skype and Twitter:  BurningHawk1969
>> Home:  Http://MarkBurningHawk.net/
>> Namaste!
>>
>>
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