[Cinci-nfb] Blind Barber gets his Cut

[Deborah Kendrick]

Greetings, all, 
There are so many disturbing things about this story from the Boston Herald,
but I am delighted that it has the proverbial happy ending in that the blind
guy won!

I'm troubled by the journalist refering to Joel Nixon's "malady", but then,
I am a little more than touchy about words.  

Read on and smile.  
Peace, 
Deborah
Commission Orders Employer To Pay $100,000 To Blind Barber For Illegal
Firing (Boston Herald) November 10, 2015

NORTON, MASSACHUSETTS-- [Excerpt] A legally blind barber who honed his craft
cutting his siblings' hair has been awarded $100,000 after a state agency
found that he was illegally fired by a shop that didn't want a
sight-impaired scissorsmith on staff.

"When it comes to hairstyling, I'm an artist and I take pride in what I do,"

said Joel Nixon, a barber who has been cutting men's hair for years. "When
you're in my chair, I don't let you out of my chair until they're satisfied.

My vision does not compromise my ability to do my job."

Nixon, 29, has been diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a hereditary
condition that affects his peripheral vision. He has trouble seeing at
night, and has been declared legally blind by the Massachusetts Commission
for the Blind.

He was working for Tony's Barber Shop in Norton in 2011, but a year later
his boss, Tony Morales, discovered his malady, according to the decision by
the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

On March 3, 2012, Nixon was working at the shop's South Easton location when
he tripped over a customer's legs. Later in the day, he tripped over a chair
in the waiting room.


 
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