[Home-on-the-range] "the right to live in the world…"

Thu Nov 8 03:55:13 UTC 2012

I know the rest of you all have moved on from this thread but I haven't had much chance to catch up.  Just wanted to point out that the first Newell Perry article is available in the July 2012 monitor and there has been another good one out last week! 

I have found this seiries to be very thought provoking and I do think that it highlights the lack of progress we in the ACB states have experienced since the '60's.  However it certaintly also points out that no blind person or blind persons as a group have gotten anywhere without being willing to work and struggle.

Thanks,
Tom

--- On Wed, 10/10/12, Dianne Hemphill <diannehemphill at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Dianne Hemphill <diannehemphill at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] "the right to live in the world…"
> To: "NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List" <home-on-the-range at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 11:25 AM
> ...if someone has a notetaker with
> braille display, you should be able to download the Monitor
> article from the nfb.org web site. Hopefully someone in your
> chapter can do this so you or someone else can read it in
> braille. Dianne
> On Oct 9, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Cindy Ray wrote:
> 
> > Is there a Braille Ready version of the Monitor on the
> site? Our chapter president said he was going to have an
> article on Saturday, but whenever we have one, it is always
> read from recording. We talk about Braille, yet when it
> comes down to it, do we really, really mean what we say
> about it? I hear about it everywhere. Braille is important;
> we need to be literate; we need to have access to Braille;
> yet when the rubber meets the road, we use recordings. Just
> a thought here.
> > 
> > Cindy
> > 
> > On Oct 9, 2012, at 7:46 AM, Stanzel, Susan - FSA,
> Kansas City, MO wrote:
> > 
> >> I really appreciate you generating my interest in
> reading the Monitor for October. I will just start today
> during my lunch hour. Sometimes I think that old saying is
> so true,"The more things change, the more they stay the
> same". I am always so saddened by the statistics for
> employment which have not budged in the last 40 years, in
> spite of everything we try. I read the stats on the number
> of disabled persons being added to the federal government
> and wonder where they are. The first problem is that not
> much hiring is being done, but I am thinking they hire
> people who's disability doesn't limit their real ability to
> get a job. I can't wait to be able to do all they reading I
> really want to do.
> >> 
> >> Susie
> >> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Home-on-the-range [mailto:home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Cindy Ray
> >> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 9:54 AM
> >> To: NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List
> >> Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] "the right to live
> in the world…"
> >> 
> >> Diane, I will try to read these articles and
> discuss. Maybe I could get some discussion going at o ur own
> meeting. GASP! Can't imagine it. LOL.
> >> 
> >> Cindy
> >> 
> >> On Oct 8, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Dianne Hemphill wrote:
> >> 
> >>> ...just completed listening to the October
> Braille Monitor. Among the
> >>> fascinating articles are two focusing on our
> early history and
> >>> leaders. I didn't know much about Dr. Newll
> Perry who was a mentor to our founding father Jacobas ten
> Broek who wrote the still used legal perspective of "the
> right to live in the world". Perry's perspective and
> philosophy on the blind participating in the community is
> just as confusing and misunderstood  today by many as
> it was at the early 1900's. These articles would make good
> discussion at local chapter meetings. Such ideas as; 1.
> "don't listen to your parents advise - it will only limit
> you (as a blind person), 2. education is the key to a blind
> person's ability to contribute to both their own and the
> communities benefit,
> >>> 3. fear of joining an organization like the
> NFB, because the school, training facility or workshop would
> find that it would raise a person's  discontent
> and  potential   criticism  of
> their programs (and funding streams),
> >>> 4. see any similarities between  Winnifred
> and Linda Merrell?
> >>> 5. how have our challenges changed? Have we
> made progress?  What can we learn from these early
> leaders?
> >>> 
> >>> These articles could also be the stimulus for
> home-on-the-range
> >>> conversations.  It has been my experience
> that any time a blind person
> >>> pursues challenges and is successful, many of
> the sighted
> >>> contemporaries want to think that you got where
> you did through
> >>> sympathy or as a someone to be manipulated.
> When a focus is targeted
> >>> that may not parallel the mainstream thinking,
> there is great effort
> >>> to discredit us or make assertions that these
> ideas are unrealistic
> >>> and not possible. Though almost everyone loudly
> proclaims they want
> >>> change, in the end, few are willing to do so
> because they don't think
> >>> what they are personally doing is the
> problem...we are viewed as
> >>> "rocking the boat" or cry babies, 
> and  sometimes as  intimidating
> >>> and, perhaps, that  we should just be a
> little more patient or that we
> >>> need to "know our place" ..It's amazing we've
> made the progress we
> >>> have! Having a better foundation of what our
> founding father's were
> >>> willing to do may help us all to "further
> resolve" what we can do "to
> >>> change what it means to be blind". Dianne
> >>>
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