[Ohio-Talk] Meeting Reminder for Tonight

Wed Apr 22 17:05:35 UTC 2020

I'm  probably  just missing it, but I don't see a time.

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Subject: [Ohio-Talk] Meeting Reminder for Tonight

I want to remind President Payne and all of my friends and colleague that we
do have an important meeting scheduled for tonight. See the details below.

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.

I would like for you to read and be prepared to actively participate in the
meeting.

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