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

[Sharon Luka]

Sharon here; I may be able to download the article.  I'll work on it.

Sharon


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From: Home-on-the-range [mailto:home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Dianne Hemphill
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] "the right to live in the world."

...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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