[nabs-l] Security in ourselves, acceptance in others
Josh Gregory
joshkart12 at gmail.com
Sun May 29 17:24:08 UTC 2011
So wait, um... interesting. So that's not how it happened? The
textbooks make it seem that way... I mean Parks not giving up
her seat being the first one.
Josh
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Actually, according to David Paterson, recently Governor of new
York, Rosa
Parks wasn't the first person actually to refuse to go to the
back of the
bus. Earlier that year, another African-american lady would have
tested the
system but she had had a child out of wedlock and so NAACP chose
not to make
her the test case for the segregation law, the mores of the time
being
different than they are today.
Mike
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Yeah we're learning about that in history (it's almost the end of
the school
year, yay!) and it's sad what they did to people. The Little
Rock Nine,
does anybody remember that one? Well, there's a lot of history to
show
that... African Americans were segregated and as so, treated
very badly.
Rosa Parks was the first to challenge that. I think... but
that's
offtopic. I guess my point is: While I knew about the history of
African
Americans, I didn't know that us blind people went through the
same things.
Josh
PS: Sorry if that was just a bit offtopic.
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Josh,
As sad as it is, it happens all the time. Gandhi, Martin
Luther King, and
so many others who've fought against the status quo get all sorts
of
resistance. In terms of ability, I think Jernigan was right up
there with
those guys...or pretty dang close! We're lucky noone acted on
their death
threats against him, like they did with dr.
King
and Gandhi.
Warmly,
Kirt
On 5/28/11, Josh Gregory <joshkart12 at gmail.com> wrote:
Still, wow, that's... well... I think, outrageous. A man of
such high
respect can be hated just as much... enough to the point of
receiving
death threats. Interesting and scary.
Josh
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Oh yes -- as president of the NFB, he was a symbol of the
Movement and, as
such, was perceived as standing for a philosophy that threatened
the status
quo (including the self-proclaimed exalted status of various
agencies for
the blind). The hostility was often palpable and, make no
mistake, it took
its toll on the man. Whether he'd ever have admitted it or not,
it
bothered him a lot to receive such hostility that was almost
pathological
in its extremity.
Mike
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Hi, such a respectable person as Dr. Journigan receiving death
threats?
To me that is unheard of that such... um... deplorable things
could
happen to us blind people.
Josh
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Federationists have received death threats in the past; i can
recall from
my studies that Rammi Rabby and Dr. Jernigan did.
Respectfully,
Jedi
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On May 28, 2011, at 12:47 AM, "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com
wrote:
Darian:
WE of NFB often compare ourselves to African-americans because
we
consider ourselves, like them, to be a minority group within the
larger
society.
Certainly, no one would argue that blind people were attacked
with
fire-hoses or lynched while trying to exercise their rights. I
do know of
plenty of instances when blind persons were arrested for refusing
to move
from exit-row seating to which they were legitimately assigned on
airplanes
and I know of one incident wherein a blind person was severely
beaten for
being a NFB member.
I believe there's a bit about this comparison in Dr.
Jernigan's
1976 banquet
speech, "Of visions and Vultures".
I appreciate your question to clarify the comparison.
Mike
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Mike:
African-Americans/blacks (however one choosses to term
themselves)would
not have been too keen on the idea based upon how they were
treated by
whites up to that time.
It is curious that how african-americans were treated is
always
one of the first ways we as blind people choose to make our
comparisons
in our struggle for first-class citizanship. I wonder, were
blind people
beatin and hosed down when they peacefully protest the unjust
ways they
were treated? Were they lybnched? Can we safely make those
comparisons?
unless I am missing something (I could be, and it wouldn't be
the first
or last time I have), we have some similarities with regards
to civil
rights, but largely our histories were quite different and the
scars,
deaths,risks were felt on largely different levels.
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