[Blindtlk] FW: Awareness was the Main Course

Sat Mar 13 08:14:00 UTC 2010

He did not say that sighted people know what its like to be blind. The raw 
emotion needs to be put aside, and people need to pay attention to what was 
written. I don't agree with Steve, although I do see what he said. He said, 
he "thinks," which is perfectly fine. I think things others think is wrong 
all the time. Read what is said, not what you want in order to start an 
argument. He said he thinks, which translates into in his oppinion, which 
shouldn't be a big deal because we don't have to take on his oppinion, or 
anyone else's for that matter.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gloria Whipple" <fairyfoot at webband.com>
To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] FW: Awareness was the Main Course


> The sighted doesn't know what it is like to be blind!
>
> You are completely wrong!
>
> A friend and I went and did a demonstration at a school. We asked the
> children if they wanted to be blindfolded. Some of them tried it, but some
> of the other children were scared. So you cannot sit there and write to 
> tell
> everyone that sighted people know what it is like to be blind.
>
> Get a better attitude!
>
>
>
>
> Gloria Whipple
> Corrisponding secretary
> Inland Empire chapter
> nfb of WA
>
> cell number: 509-475-4993
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf of Steve P. Deeley
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:10 PM
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] FW: Awareness was the Main Course
>
> I think it gives sighted folks a greater found appreciation of what it is
> like to be blind.  They are not looking down their noses at blind folks.
>
>
> Steve
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cindy Handel" <cindy425 at verizon.net>
> To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] FW: Awareness was the Main Course
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>
>> Wow!  There was nothing positive at that dinner.  Everyone talked about
>> the
>> negatives they see in their own experience or that of loved ones.  So, it
>> seems all they were there for was to pretend they understand what it's
>> like
>> to be blind and to be thankful they aren't blind.  Not a good thing to
>> thrust on people.
>>
>> Cindy
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jewel S." <herekittykat2 at gmail.com>
>> To: <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 5:48 PM
>> Subject: [Blindtlk] FW: Awareness was the Main Course
>>
>>
>> Here is the original St. Petersburg article. I think the Letter to the
>> Editor was a bit harsh, but does hit on some very good points,
>> including the fact that Foundation Fighting Blindness uses blind
>> people to create pity from sighted people to raise funds. It's a sad
>> state when a blind person has to talk about how depressed and angry at
>> the world they were when they went blind to raise funds. Of course,
>> they don't -have- to, as NFB chapters all over the nation raise funds
>> by showing people what we -can- do. Our local chapter is doing a
>> Pancake Breakfast with Applebee's, and I am going to suggest that we
>> not be so wary about being the servers...take the plunge and serve the
>> breakfast. We -can- do it, and the sighted people who attend will be
>> impressed and pity us, but maybe it'll teach them that we can do
>> anything a sighted person can do, sometimes even better, because we
>> use more than one sense to do the task.
>>
>> Without further ado, the original article:
>>
>> Awareness was the main course.
>> By LAURA Reiley Times Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG  You knew your plate
>> had been set before you only by sense of smell. It smelled like beef,
>> something braised and hearty. On your right a voice asked what you do
>> for a living. You turned and lobbed an answer in that direction.
>> Tuesday night was the Foundation Fighting Blindness's first Tampa Bay
>> Dining in the Dark event at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort & Golf
>> Club. More than 200 people, dressed fancy and sipping cocktails, took
>> seats in the main ballroom and eventually donned something called a
>> Mindfold face mask, impervious to light and lined with foam. The
>> lights dimmed and as emcee Dick Crippen of the Tampa Bay Rays goaded
>> the crowd, the group endeavored to enjoy "the first meal you will
>> never see. Other senses were heightened, texture became paramount. But
>> more important, it gave all of the assembled a greater window into the
>> world of the sightless. Many had come because their lives had already
>> been touched by degenerative retinal diseases. Briana Pompilus , 24,
>> was there as a volunteer with her mother Veronica Floyd, 44, who was
>> diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa  at age 22. Still driving now,
>> eventually her vision will close up as if looking through two drinking
>> straws. One of the evening's speakers, April Lufriu, a former Mrs.
>> Florida America pageant winner and president of the Tampa Bay area
>> chapter of the foundation, spoke of her sister's retinal disease and,
>> more haltingly, about her two children's recent diagnosis.
>> Degenerative retinal diseases affect more than 10 million Americans.
>> As keynote speaker James Minow described it, the foundation's aim is
>> to put an end to retinal disease by replacing defective cells in the
>> retina, replacing defective genes and by developing new treatments to
>> protect degenerating retinas. The obstacle? As is so often the case,
>> it's money. According to Kim Marlow, regional director of development
>> for the foundation, the evening in St. Petersburg will raise $100,000
>> for the cause. The most successful Dining in the Dark event to date,
>> in New York, raised $500,000 in a single evening. The evening's
>> honorees, doctors James Gill and Stephen Klasko, were feverishly
>> optimistic about conceivable cures for blindness. For those assembled,
>> a half hour in the dark was a humbling, and bumbling, reminder of the
>> magnitude of the gift of sight..
>>
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