[NFB-Arkansas] NFB-Arkansas Digest, Vol 128, Issue 1 mention of DSB

Tue Feb 3 14:30:02 UTC 2026

It's not just the feds and money.  It's the state too; two years ago a law was passed that said we could not get all our state money at once.  Also, we could only get what the feds send each quarter; for instance, if we got 2000 from the feds, we could only have the same from the state.  Before this change, we could have all our state funds aloud for us.  I hope when we return we could become somehow stable again.

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   1. Fwd: Discrimination issue in Arkansas (Donna Walker)

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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 00:44:01 -0600
From: Donna Walker <walkercutoff at gmail.com>
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Subject: [NFB-Arkansas] Fwd: Discrimination issue in Arkansas
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Good evening, I’m sharing an email I sent to NFB nAtional and our state president a couple weeks ago. While we work every day to change the lives of blind people in our state in our country serious problems with ignorance and discrimination still exist. I realize that a lot of people are concerned with the budgetary problems facing the division of services for the blind as a result of our federal governments lack of fiscal responsibility and funding programs mandated by congressional action. While this issue may not impact you directly it’s another indication that we still have a long way to go and must deal with ignorance from some of the most unbelievable places on a daily basis. Sharing my email for your consideration or discussion. Donna Donna Walker. Sent from my iPhone

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From: Donna Walker <walkercutoff at gmail.com>
Date: January 19, 2026 at 4:01:40 PM CST
To: nfb at nfb.org
Cc: Nena Chadwick <nchadwick at nfbar.org>
Subject: Discrimination issue in Arkansas

Good afternoon, whenever you think that you are past the point of being amazed or surprised at the way people react to blindness something happens to show you that ignorance still abounds. A situation like that happened to my husband and myself last week. We are both blind, but have made it a practice to own and maintain an automobile for personal use for years and years. This because Transportation is such a problem in Arkansas and often we can find a reliable driver easier than a reliable driver who always wants to use their vehicle or has a vehicle that appears to be roadworthy enough to make the trip. My husband has been actively searching for a vehicle very similar to ours, but with less miles and a few other options that ours does not have. He recently found exactly what we were looking for at an auto dealer in Mayflower Arkansas, Caldwell Toyota. He was negotiating a deal with one of the salesman at the dealership, Josh Pearrow. We were supposed to bring our trade-in and a cashiers check for the difference between the two vehicles to the dealership last Wednesday to finalize the sale.
On Tuesday afternoon, the salesman, Josh, called with some additional questions and requests from his sales manager, Charlie. since we were bringing our current vehicle up there to pick up the other one who would be driving? Would it be a licensed driver? As if! He asked us to send photo copies of our state identification cards, the current registration and licensing information on the car we have now and a copy of our insurance card from State Farm showing that the current vehicle is covered by auto insurance. Additionally, they had said before that a personal check was fine for the difference, but now wanted it to be a cashiers check. We had already exchanged photos of the two vehicles, vehicle, identification numbers and current mileage, etc. After we supplied the additional information, everything was on go, that was Tuesday evening. We were to run by our bank in the morning to get the cashiers check and meet Josh at the dealership at about 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning. That dealership is about 70 miles from our home. on Wednesday morning we were over halfway there, west of Little Rock when Josh called. The sales manager Charlie was blocking the sale as it currently stands or stood. He said that Charlie said he lost sleep overnight worrying about this deal. He’d never heard of blind people buying a car before, and he was convinced that it was not legal for us to own one. Poor Josh was obviously distressed and embarrassed, and I felt bad for him, but we were getting seriously angry because Charlie said that they would sell us the car if we put somebody else’s name, a licensed driver on the title along with us. They would not sell us the vehicle otherwise. They They did not want to be liable if something happened or an accident, etc. I tried to reason with Josh, we were never able to speak with Charlie. I explained that anyone can own a car, it was illegal for us to drive a car or to operate the car in Arkansas without auto insurance  and current license and tags. I explained that we would absolutely not consent to having somebody else’s name on the title of our new car as he clearly could see we’d never titled a car before in anyone’s name but ours. He said we could take it off later if we wanted to which I told him was absolutely insulting. We were grown-ups and we did not need a cosigner or a keeper. We pulled over and waited for a few minutes for Josh to try and reason with Charlie, but Charlie would not change the requirement for a sided, licensed driver to be on our car title, our property. i’m sure you will understand that that was the end of that purchase, we turned around and returned home and returned the funds from the cashiers check to our bank account. We did receive a phone call from the salesman, Josh, who was visibly upset about the entire situation. We assured him that we did not blame him as it was not his decision to terminate the sale or place. Ridiculous restrictions upon it. It was obvious that he was embarrassed, besides which he just lost his sales commission. We have never dealt with a situation like this before… Dick and Donna Walker: 501-467-4042.   Sent from my iPhone
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