[blindlaw] Refusal To Use A Cane

[Mark BurningHawk]

While I don't think this list is the place to start a spirited debate on canes, I agree with you that a different color cane use is problematic in terms of socialization or integration into the existing system.  My own personal stance on it, which I will never attain, due to physical limitations like profound hearing loss, but my own stance on it is that a blind person should develop skills that are so precise and exact that "laws," of any kind, "protecting," the blind person from the rest of the world would not be necessary.  I'm a little shocked in fact that the NFB would support a body of law put in place specifically to force accessibility upon the world, specifically for white cane users (a subset of the blind population), rather than encourage members to develop other options that don't require sighted people obey special laws about them. *shrug* oh the abuse I am now going to get.../

Mark BurningHawk
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