[Ohio-talk] 50th year of the dream - a postscript

Wed Aug 28 20:38:30 UTC 2013

Wow!  Obviously, I hadn't yet read all of the messages when I sent my
previous one.  
JW and Suzanne, that is mighty powerful stuff you wrote to us all.  Thank
you so very much for sharing!  

-----Original Message-----
From: Ohio-talk [mailto:ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Deborah
Kendrick
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 4:18 PM
To: 'NFB of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [Ohio-talk] 50th year of the dream

Barbara and JW,
I just want to say thank you to each of you for the beautiful remarks you
shared today on this list.  
I hope everyone listened, as I certainly did, to some of the proceedings
from Washington.  Our president stood on the same spot as Dr. Martin Luther
King, next to the bell from the Birmingham Baptist churc and delivered what
I believe to be one of his most compelling speeches to date.  It did not go
unnoticed by this writer's ears that in his catalog of sometimes
marginalized people he included us, Americans with disabilities.  To get the
mention is not a huge thing but one more step toward progress that we are
recognized as being among those groups who have had to struggle for equality
and opportunity.  Let freedom ring!
Peace,
Deborah

-----Original Message-----
From: Ohio-talk [mailto:ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Turner,
William H. TSC Cleveland
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 1:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ohio-talk] 50th year of the dream

Amen Doctor

-----Original Message-----
From: Ohio-talk [mailto:ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Smith, JW
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 12:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ohio-talk] 50th year of the dream

The Boss has well said it concerning the parallels of the 2 struggles but
they are both simultaneously similar and different at the same time.

This is a very important day in our history and worthy of memory and
celebration because I do think that we have come along way as a country both
culturally and racially!

I find it interesting when people say that having a President with Barack
Obama's background and racial composition is no big deal when in fact in my
opinion, it is a major deal and should not ever be downplayed in the broader
discussion of racial maturity and advancement in our society.

Also, I maintain that only blind people and only black people can really
know the reality of those existences and they are unique human experiences
frought with enormous complexities that often can not even be adequately
verbalized or communicated effectively!

Jw

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ohio-talk [mailto:ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara
Pierce
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 12:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ohio-talk] 50th year of the dream

The two civil rights struggles are parallel in many ways, but it has always
seemed to me that blind people have mostly not faced the bigoted hatred that
black people in my childhood faced. We have been thought stupid and
pitiable, incompetent and a pain in the neck. But mostly blindness has not
made ignorant people hate us in the same way they have hated those who were
different racially. In that way the celebration of how far society has come
in the past fifty years  since the I Have a Dream speech is much further
than blind people have traveled. 
I have had black friends who are also blind say that overcoming the
discrimination against the blind has been harder in their experience than
racial stupidity. I cannot know about that. I do know that it behooves us to
recognize and welcome fellow travelers. I know that the white race is freer
because of the progress we have made since 1963. Listening to John Lewis
makes me even more determined to strike the chains of bondage from everyone
who is held back by prejudice and ignorance.
Barbara

-----Original Message-----
From: Ohio-talk [mailto:ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Payne,
Richard L (GE Capital)
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 10:17 AM
To: NFB of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List (ohio-talk at nfbnet.org)
Subject: [Ohio-talk] 50th year of the dream

I can remember the statement that Dr. Jernigan    made by comparing the
struggles of the blind with the civil rights movement    of African
Americans.
This is the 50th anniversary of Dr. Kings I have a dream and the historical
march. We have our own march on Washington that we now call the Washington
seminar.
I can state this day that when I first heard the comparison it seemed to be
a stretch to me. When I look back at the trail of years it reminds me of
just how far we have come and the long road ahead. Richard

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