[Community-service] What tells me we have work to do

[Darian Smith]

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On Feb 22, 2014, at 10:10 PM, Cheryl Fields <cherylelaine1957 at gmail.com> wrote:

> darian,
> Here! Here! I agree! Just want to know, what have you decided to do
> about this situation?
> Cheryl
> 
> On 2/23/14, Darian Smith <dsmithnfb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>  a month or so ago I had a conversation with my old unit leader in
>> AmeriCorps NCCC.
>> I was talking with him about what to expect  as a part of the job when
>> applying to be a team leader in the program.
>> We had talked about the various situations teams face  due  to the very
>> fluid nature of the program and how team leaders need to be prepared for
>> it.
>> He had suggested to me that the  femacorps program might be an easier
>> program for me as a blind person because of the lack of variety in projects,
>> that because it was mainly  administrative, it would be easier for me to
>> operate in it.
>> there was more to  the conversation,  but I say that to say that programs
>> such as this with people who have no prior  experience with blindness expect
>> us to only work with the blind, to have very limited skill-sets and a lack
>> of true belief in our real abilities.
>> The idea that we should stay home in our rocking chairs is not that far
>> behind us.  The idea that we are only capable of assembly line work, not
>> anything that shows that we move, think, act, operate like our  sighted
>> peers is present today.
>> I think this shows that we have work to do.
>>  What Say you?
>> 
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