[Blindtlk] Letter to the Editor: Dining in the Dark eventsre:[blindtlk] fw: MIRA Foundation

[Chris Nusbaum]

Well, the world can be crazy sometimes! There are just crazy 
people out there, unfortunately.

Chris

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real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
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1968-1986

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Humberto Avila" <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com
To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:35:34 -0800
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Letter to the Editor: Dining in the Dark 
eventsre:[blindtlk]	fw: MIRA Foundation

Hello, a police officer asking a blind person the question, "why 
are you
going out so late at night?" when it is just 8:30 P.M.  is very 
crazy and
ridiculous, and not just that.  It is just DARN  stupid! For 
once, that is
not the business or job of the law enforcement official, to stop 
a blind
person just because he or she is blind and he is going outside 
"so late"
when it is not even midnight.  That has not happened to me, and 
none of my
blind friends that I have had said anything about similar 
experiences, in
fact it is the first time I hear this, on a blindness related 
listserve.
Police officers should not, and can not, do this, unless I commit 
a crime.
Or, is a person being blind and walking out in the street a 
crime? Really
crazy! It is simply not! I think this is the most extreme, and I 
say this
clearly, extreme and exaggerating way that someone will force 
misperceptions
and stereotypes about blindness.

-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Sheila Leigland
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 1:22 PM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Letter to the Editor: Dining in the Dark 
events
re:[blindtlk] fw: MIRA Foundation

Hello marion very well stated.  As a blind person I just want to 
live my life
and be able to walk down a street without being watched to see if 
I'm going
to need help or something like that.  The idea that we are more 
courageous is
rediculous.  The stereotypes based on blindness ablone need to go 
and the
sooner the better.  We aren't childlike or innocent about the 
world around us
or at least I hope we aren't.  We were told one time that our 
canes were to
noisy and weren't there homes for your kind of people.  We have 
had police
ask us why we are on the streets so late at night, it was eight 
thirty in
the evening.

Sheila Leiglan	d

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