[nagdu] Fw: Dining in the Dark article

Thu Mar 11 22:57:51 UTC 2010

Cheryl do you know how to use spell check?? You are reinforcing  perceptions
and stereotypes when you send out a letter with applaud rather then appalled
and the serious number of spelling and grammatical errors such as the ones
in your letter to the food critic from that paper in Florida. While your
position may have been one of significant importance your delivery did not
relay that at all. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of cheryl echevarria
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 5:10 PM
To: nagdu
Subject: [nagdu] Fw: Dining in the Dark article

Marion and all:

I also wrote to the reporter of the article.

Please read the response below.

Cheryl Echevarria
Independent Travel Consultant
http://Echevarriatravel.com
1-866-580-5574

http://blog.echevarriatravel.com
Reservations at echevarriatravel.com
Affiliated as an Independent Contractor with Montrose Travel CST-1018299-10

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LReiley at sptimes.com>
To: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: Dining in the Dark article

> Ms. Echevarria,
>
> I appreciate your letter and am chastened that my reporting on the event,
> in your opinion, served to reinforce stereotypes about the blind. It
> certainly wasn't my intention to perpetuate any myths or insinuate that
> being visually impaired is shameful.
>
> Thank you for taking the time to write,
>
> Laura Reiley
> Food Critic
> St. Petersburg Times
> 490 First Ave. S.
> St. Petersburg, FL 33701
> (727) 892-2293
> Blog: http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/dining
>
>
>
> cheryl echevarria <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
> 03/11/2010 12:41 PM
>
> To
> <lreiley at sptimes.com>
> cc
>
> Subject
> Dining in the Dark article
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Good morning Ms. Reily:
>
> My name is Cheryl Echevarria and I am the Treasurer of the National
> Federation of the Blind of Greater Long Island Chapter.  I read about your
>
> article from my friend Mr. Marion Gwizdala, who is the President of the
> East
> Hillsborough of the NFB and the President of the National Association of
> Guide Dog Users.
>
> I am totally applaud by how these people feel that blindness is to be
> pitied
> or felt sorry for people who are blind and need to be blinded folded to
> find
> out who it is to be blind.
>
> From someone who was sited up until 2001 when I lost both my vision and my
>
> kidneys to diabetes, I have some vision left in my right eye but not to be
>
> considered sighted.
>
> Currently I have nothing against people trying to find a cure for
> blindness,
> but there will always be something that causes it, either by accident or
> illness, there is no shame in being a blind person.
>
> Yes, when I first lost my  vision I had to learn things over again.  But I
>
> am not a pig when I eat, or taste any different, or hear any different, or
>
> have to use 2 hands to eat.
>
> The best way for these people to learn or for your readers to learn about
> blindness is going to anyone of NFB Chapters throughout the USA and Puerto
>
> Rico, including Washington, D.C. by going to the nfb.org and locating one
> of
> our state affiliates and they will be glad to get you in tough with that
> local chapter.
>
> As you can see by my signature on this e-mail, not only have I become a
> person again to which the article feels that blind people are to be felt
> sorry, but I have also become a business owner.
>
> Many of my brothers and sisters within the NFB and throughout the world
> are
> capable human beings, who just need the education and mobility techniques
> that are out there for anyone who wishes to use these services as well as
> the National Federation of the blind to help as well.
>
> We are trying to change the way that we are discriminated against and
> fighting to educate those that blindness is just a characteristic to us
> and
> nothing to be ashamed of.
>
> Thank you for listening.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Cheryl Echevarria
> Treasurer, Greater Long Island Chapter of the National Federation of the
> Blind
> 10 Aljan Drive
> Brentwood, NY 11717
> 631-236-5138
>
> Independent Travel Consultant
> http://Echevarriatravel.com
> 1-866-580-5574
>
> http://blog.echevarriatravel.com
> Reservations at echevarriatravel.com
> Affiliated as an Independent Contractor with Montrose Travel
> CST-1018299-10
>
>
> 

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