[nabs-l] Charlie Wilks- blind football player. (asfeatured onESPN360)

[William ODonnell]

I have to agree with Dave's salient points.  Those same people who find us "so amazing" will quickly turn around and make statements such as "how do you know" "you can not see" or deny us employment, housing, etc.  


--- On Thu, 11/12/09, David Dunphy <djdrocks4ever at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Dunphy <djdrocks4ever at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Charlie Wilks- blind football player. (asfeatured onESPN360)
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 2:27 AM
> I guess I'm just put off by this
> whole perception of how amazing we are in the eyes of others
> when it comes out that we can do something. A guy who can
> see finds out a blind person plays football, and that person
> is a super hero who should have a hole story done on him. To
> me, he is just an everyday person that found a way to play
> football that I don't think he'll get far with based on what
> I heard in the article. Sighted people find ways and
> solutions to problems of how they're going to accomplish
> something all the time, and a second thought is not even
> given to it. We do it, and we're amazing. And the fact that
> he made such a big deal out of something like this, by this
> I mean mingling with his peers, whether it was by playing a
> sport or what ever, suggests that the writer thought that
> was incredible that a blind person can do that. As Harry put
> it, that to me shows a bias there on the part of the writer
> or a misconception about us. People mingle with their peers
> and find ways to have fun everyday. I personally thought the
> whole thing was corny.
> > From David 
> 
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