[Ohio-Talk] Meeting Reminder for Tonight

Wed Apr 22 17:51:41 UTC 2020

It does start at 6:30.

Eric

> On Apr 22, 2020, at 1:44 PM, marianne denning via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> An earlier message said it is from 6:30 to 7:30.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jolene Bennett
> via Ohio-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 1:06 PM
> To: 'NFB of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List' <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: justjo at gmx.us
> Subject: Re: [Ohio-Talk] Meeting Reminder for Tonight
> 
> I'm  probably  just missing it, but I don't see a time.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Eric Duffy via
> Ohio-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:37 PM
> To: NFB of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Eric Duffy <peduffy63 at gmail.com>
> 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.
> 
> To Join the Zoom Meeting
> 
> <https://zoom.us/j/4081850851 <https://zoom.us/j/4081850851>>
> https://zoom.us/j/4081850851 <https://zoom.us/j/4081850851>
> 
> Meeting ID: 408 185 0851
> 
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> Meeting ID: 408 185 0851
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