[Blindtlk] Letter to the Editor: Dining in theDark events re:[blindtlk] fw: MIRA Foundation

Fri Dec 16 13:40:51 UTC 2011

If you don't want to deal with downloading the audio, Walking Alone and Marching Together is available on CD from the NFB Independence Market for $10.00 plush shipping and handling.

http://secure.nfb.org/ecommerce/asp/product.asp?product=283&cat=48&ph=&keywords=&recor=&SearchFor=&PT_ID=

Cordially,

Ellen Ringlein
Manager, Independence Market
Jernigan Institute
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place
Baltimore, MD 21230
Phone: 410-659-9314 Ext. 2421
Fax: 410-685-2340
E-mail: ERinglein at nfb.org

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From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Chris Nusbaum
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 7:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Letter to the Editor: Dining in theDark events re:[blindtlk] fw: MIRA Foundation

I really need to read that book! I was going to download it from NLS WebBraille,  but you have to download each Braille volume separately, and Walking Alone has 11 volumes total! Wow! And I thought I was going to get a hardcopy and read it! I should probably just download the MP3 files onto my Stream from the NFB site, or get it on Bookshare.

Chris

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com
To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org Date sent: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:05:41 -0800
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Letter to the Editor: Dining in theDark	
events	re:[blindtlk]	fw: MIRA Foundation

You're welcome, Ray.  As I say, the doctrine has little actual legal scope anymore but all-too-often lives on in the public mind.

I'd bet that if you put "Contributory Negligence" into the NFB site's search box, you'd get a slew of Monitor articles including one of mine and perhaps a reference or two or three in "Walking Alone ...".

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 5:19 PM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Letter to the Editor: Dining in the Dark events re:[blindtlk] fw: MIRA Foundation

Mike, being a history buff, I appreciate this little note.  
thanks.

Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!

Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!

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On Dec 14, 2011, at 6:10 PM, Mike Freeman wrote:

 Humberto:

 At one time, there was a principle of law known as the "Doctrine of  Contributory Negligence".  It held that, simply by virtue of going out alone,  a blind person who had an accident was in part responsible for said  accident.  Thankfully, this began to be overruled as early as the 1860's.
It
 still holds sway surprisingly often in the mind of the public.

 Mike Freeman

 -----Original Message-----
 From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
 Behalf Of Humberto Avila
 Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 2:36 PM
 To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List'
 Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Letter to the Editor: Dining in the Dark events  re:[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
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 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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