[IL-Talk] A program item suggestion

[Lewis Wood]

Musical rant rap  pop rock?


Lewis
lewislwood at gmail.com


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Subject: [IL-Talk] A program item suggestion

Good morning fellow federation people.

Recently in pretty frequently throughout my life I keep hearing the word
stick referring to the white cane. Last night I was going out of a place
that I go to every Sunday night and this woman who I'm assuming could be
almost 60 years old said I'm going to take that stick away from you. We just
turn the lights out and she kept bugging me about if I knew where I was
going. I responded I'm not worried about me you know I'm worried about you
people. And she said shut up I'm going to take that stick away from you. And
this woman is kind of been sort of derogatory towards me and real
patronizing. And you know we all hear it the word stick. I wonder if there's
ever been a Braille monitor article written about that. You know this is not
a stick it's a white cane. And I'm really sick and tired of these sighted
people calling it a stick. We should write up a public announcement and make
all the radio stations play it and all the TV stations play it. This is not
a stick! We should really have a program item about that.

Robert Hansen
hansen.robert70 at gmail.com
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