[stylist] question

Tue Mar 24 21:53:45 UTC 2009

You are right Barbara.  However there's one point that no one has brought 
up.  When I was in high school 80 percent of the school was black.  Yes, 
they were black and I'm white, but going to school with them, being with 
them on a daily basis, they were no longer different.  Slowly, all of us 
became the same.  You didn't notice the difference.  Yes, it was there but 
we ceased to notice.  Judith
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] question


> I've wondered the same thing.  It's not a war we're fighting.  And yet if 
> the "enemy" needs a name, it's called sighted.  Now the whole group of 
> sighted folk are not the "enemy" but most could easily be convinced to be. 
> Somewhere a vary significant person once said, as his life was ebbing, 
> "forgive them for they know not what they do."  Most folks are ignorant 
> and that leads them to be prejudice.
> All we can do is keep teaching.  Did you learn more from being taught or 
> being fought?  One of my sons has a supported community living worker. 
> This is a person who comes into your home and teaches your child how to do 
> any number of skills.  She sometimes takes him out in the community--she 
> does this with older clients to work on money management and such.  We 
> went to a swimming pool that is at a home for handicapped children.  She 
> was very surprised at the way those people who worked with handicapped 
> children all the time treated me.  You know, looked at her for names and 
> expected her to pay.
> Did I get mad?  I just informed this young lady about how the sighted 
> world treats blind people sometimes.  She was shocked.  She has a Down's 
> cousin so for as long as she can remember she's been exposed to someone 
> not quite like everyone else.  I really think that's the important thing. 
> If people grow up around people who are different, they are more open to 
> accepting all kinds of differentness.  Sometimes the reverse is true 
> because like John said, we all have minds.  It is amazing how that thing 
> works--and also how it doesn't.
> Barbara
>
> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>
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> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:13 AM
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>> Why do we have to copy social movements that are made up of eighty 
>> percent common sense?  Why can't we just keep on living to the best of 
>> our abilities?  Why can't we set goals, attain them and live our lives in 
>> ways that are comfortable for us without  placating some political or 
>> social movement?  Why does blindness or any other disability have to be 
>> classified and recognized as an "ism" in order to recognize the fact that 
>> those afflicted with a particular disability are equal to any other 
>> disability? Judith
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <LoriStay at aol.com>
>> To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] question
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, "blindism" usually refers to mannerisms shown by some 
>> blind
>> people whose parents didn't stop their children from doing it early on, 
>> such as
>> rocking, and digging fingers into blind eyes.
>> So that one is out.
>> Lori
>> In a message dated 3/24/09 1:50:56 AM, johnlee at clarktouch.com writes:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I mean, what would the civil rights movement have been like if there was 
>>> no
>>> word for racism? What would be the feminist movement be without the word
>>> sexism? What would the Deaf Pride movement be without the word audism?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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