[stylist] Heroes of the blind community

[John Lee Clark]

Hey, all:

I notice NFB's tendency to take pains to refer to people with doctorates as
Dr.  Am I to read into this a kind of inferiority complex and if you have a
doctorate you make sure it is known and touted?

If so, Ii recommend scrapping this altogether.  You may think it builds
credibility, but the fact you mention Dr. at all suggests it is SPECIAL for
a blind person.  But it shouldn't be considered special, but only a matter
of course--of course you've got a whole colony of blind doctors!  Even if
you don't have that many, it's good to be nonchalant about it.

But I can sympathize.  The Deaf community used to make a big deal of the
title Dr. but that was back in the 1930s.  Nowadays, Deaf Ph.Ds are common
as dirt.  

But I make this suggestion only from the perspective of language
manipulation.  Understatements are better than overstatements.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of LoriStay at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:16 AM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [stylist] Heroes of the blind community

Start with the leaders:   Louis Braille, Dr. Jacobus tenBroek, Dr. Kenneth 
Jernigan, and many other leaders from NFB.
Lori
In a message dated 3/31/09 11:59:04 PM, jbron at optonline.net writes:


> 
> >> Who are the biggest legendary figures or heroes of the blind community?
> >>
> 




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