[NFBOH-Cleveland] Cleveland Members, Please Take Note!

Wed Apr 22 16:59:19 UTC 2020

Suzanne
Is this state or national? I’ll come in to listen but I really have no questions though.
Owen

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On Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 12:53 PM, Suzanne Turner via NFBOH-Cleveland <nfboh-cleveland at nfbnet.org> wrote:

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Cleveland,

To make things simple, I have added below the number to call for tonight’s meeting.

the movement AND the message

Date: Tonight: 

Time: 6:30PM

Tel:

+1 669 900 6833 US (San

ID: 

408 185 0851

Richard Payne is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: 

the movement AND the message

               As educators and organizers we must be able to encapsulate the Federation's philosophy into short, digestible messages with which people can connect.  The following ten-point summary, excerpted from Jim Omvig's book, Freedom for the Blind, (provides an excellent overview of the NFB's philosophy about what it does and does not mean to be blind:)

(1) Blind people are simply normal, ordinary people who cannot see.

(2) The blind are merely a cross-section of society as a whole, mirroring society in every way with the same hopes, interests, and desires, the same dreams, abilities, and potential as everyone else.

(3) The physical condition of blindness is nothing more than a normal, human characteristic, like the hundreds of others which, taken together, mold each of us into a unique human being.

(4) Given proper training and opportunity, the average blind person can do the average job in the average place of business, can have a family, can be a tax-paying and participating citizen and can be in every way a contributing member of society who can compete on terms of absolute equality with his or her sighted neighbors.

(5) With proper training and opportunity, blindness is not a tragedy. It literally can be reduced to the level of a physical inconvenience or nuisance.

(6) The actual physical limitations associated with the characteristic of blindness can easily be overcome by using alternative techniques for doing without sight what you would do with sight if you had it.

(7) The concept of the hierarchy of sight--that is, the notion that the level to which a blind person can be competent and successful rises or falls in direct proportion to the amount of vision he or she has--is nothing more than a myth and is completely false.

(8) To sum it all up, "it is respectable to be blind," and the blind, themselves, are primarily responsible for pushing back the frontiers of ignorance and changing what it means to be blind in the broader society.

(9) "You can't have your cake and eat it too." That is, blind people cannot on the one hand use their blindness to get some advantage or something they want and then on the other hand demand equality and opportunity when it would be nice to have it--the blind deserve freedom and equality, yes, but hand-in-hand with equality comes responsibility.

(10) The real problem of blindness is not the physical loss of eyesight at all, but rather is to be found in the wide range of societal misunderstandings and misconceptions about blindness shared by the blind and sighted alike. Putting it quite bluntly, the blind are, in every sense of the word, a minority group, with all of the negative implications which this phrase conjures up.

National Federation of the Blind of Ohio (NFBO)

Suzanne Turner, Ohio Affiliate Vice President

Cleveland Chapter, President

 (216) 990-6199

Please click on the links below to learn more about the organization

The Ohio Affiliate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGe_1qGbkX8

“Live the life you want” featuring, National President, Mark Riccobono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DesLNDBpYVE&feature=share

Visit and take a moment to like our Facebook Page!

https://m.facebook.com/NationalFederationOfTheBlindOfOhioClevelandChapter/ 

The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.

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