[nfbmi-talk] supremacy clause or santa claus

Joe Sontag suncat0 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 16:20:40 UTC 2011


I read at least one "women's" sign while I was there last Friday; Guess I almost went into the "Ladies," too.

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Yes, and the problem with MCB and generally the outlook or "philosophy" if 
you will of Michigan is that things are still on the "charitable model".

In other words jobs, and even rehab is considerred a sort of Lions' type of 
charitable thing here.

And Pat Cannon himself with his utter lack of credentials and his total 
abuse of the system re-inforces this hidious stereotype.

Now, don't get me wrong here. For I'm all about "reasonable accommodations". 
They are means to an end after all being they give we who are blind and/or 
otherwise disabled access to the world including of course information 
access that is on terms with the sighted world.

And don't get me wrong for we all have varying degrees of talents in the 
mobility realm too. I abhore the kinds of "contests" in that regards that I 
often see.

That said what is said when a Director of a State Agency for the blind can't 
find his own way to a bathroom without his highly paid sighted guide? What 
is to be said when that same sighted guide paid more than sixty thousand per 
year to make things accessible doesn't know how to make "cursive writing" 
accessable? Or what is to be said when this same hack denigrated me while 
going to the bathroom all by myself at Friday's meeting?

In fact I went towards the sound of "flushing". And indeed I checked out the 
sign which I fought for having in raised character and Braille and in fact I 
was reading the "women's room" sign while that hhorific sighted and highly 
paid **** cluck with her other sighted oppressors in the hallway saying, 
"Joe almost went into the girl's room!"

This is the really sick stuff going on within MCB. And it goes right to the 
top of this organization with it's paternalism, andits entitlement of upper 
echelons and with its totally perverse notions about the capabilities of 
people who are blindall because at the top the blind tokens are simply 
that...Tokens....

Truth be told I differ somewhat with NFB philosophy in that I strive for an 
inter-dependent world between the blind and non-blind rather than talk of a 
totally independent world. Regardless the model here is neither independent, 
nor inter-dependent, but rather, a case of pure patronage, and haves and 
have nots and all based upon corrupted political practices.




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You know Joe, we need to have help dressing, eating and pooping!  The last
isn't necessarily facicious!  I went into a small restraunt one time and
they were going to deny me using there bathroom because they thaught I
didn't know how to use it!  I had eaten lunch there and so I just told them
I would do the buisness right there!  I did get to use the facilities but
have never been back there!
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Subject: [nfbmi-talk] supremacy clause or santa claus


Open Question



All,



We have a lot of talk about diversity in the Michigan Commission for the
Blind. But, it is still unanswered the issue I brought up at the last MCB
meeting. Here is a fact: "Each and every Promotional Agent hired during the
past few years is white, male, and not blind."



Now, why is that?



In all the searching for vacant posts we couldn't find even one qualified
person of color; or even one woman; or, God forbid a qualified person who
happens to be blind?



I don't think this is a very good message for a program that is by it's very
nature a "priority program".



I also think openly that it is this very avoidance of implementing
affirmative action requirements under the Rehab Act that has led to the
reality where the BEP program actually uses, again in documented fashion
Rehab Funds to supply jobs not for qualified blind folks, but rather, for
not qualified non-disabled and not accountable so-called temporary
operators. Where are the "set asides" for these folks? Where is the
accounting let alone the accountability? Oh, Cannon in his traditional
fashion will cite state rules as he's done in the past. But here as I've
stated Federal law is supposed to trump state law.  Guess no one has read
the Constitution including the "spending clause or the "Supremacy clause"".
Cannon sure hasn't read the Fourteenth Amendement. Anyway his patronage scam
is clear and he acts as if he is a political "Santa Claus". I guess he got
his clauses mixed up a bit. Oh well that's what we get when a GS 19 can't
even acquire a college degree of any type. Oh I'm not an academic snob by
any means, but it is really ironic that Cannon continually talks about the
soft bigotry of low expectations but has no expectations or accountability
about himself. Civil Service and other reforms were supposed to protect us
from arbitrary, capricious and perfidious actions. Yet, we have a system
that clearly acts the direct opposite of it's intended purpose.







And if you all think things are hinky as I do in the BEP program then
consider how bad things are in the general VR program.



Oh, and if Patrick Cannon wishes to talk about hiring the most qualified I
would agree. Where are his qualifications?



Sincerely,



Joe








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