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

Cindy Ray cindyray at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 19:44:38 UTC 2012


Oh, I have the article now. Now I have to look for one in July. LOL.

Cindy

On Oct 12, 2012, at 2:01 PM, Sharon Luka wrote:

> Sharon here; I may be able to download the article.  I'll work on it.
> 
> Sharon
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List
> 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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