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From: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Airline Practices
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Date: 21 May 91 04:28:28 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

-> In a message to Walter Siren <05-10-91 17:13> Glen Nielson wrote:
->
-> GN>      You know, the airlines may actually be right on the
-> GN> exit
-> GN> row issue. Not having studied plane crash reports, I
-> GN> wouldn't
-> GN> know for sure. I am convinced, however, that so much
-> GN> confrontation
-> GN> by blind people where they just maybe, might be mistaken
-> GN> tends
-> GN> to make it harder for us to decline unneeded help.

Glen,

     It's worse than that, really is.  If we keep taking issues which
people would call safety issues, and try to turn them into civil rights
issues, we look stupid at best.  Actually, we probably look
pathetic--really look just like those childish, out-of-touch types the
we've often heard about.  Having asked this before, I ask it again, is it
possibly what in other circumstances would be called a hidden agenda of the
NFB to do this and thus, ensure their continued "power" and existence?

     Ken Jernigan has spoken before the National Press Club and talked
about changes in SSA law which would give us a chance to at least try
various jobs and, provide for a quick turn on of funds if these tryouts
didn't work.  Now, that was enlightened.  That would encourage people to
experiment with their lives and grow.  This exit row bit, what does it do?
Well, for at least one thing, it encourages us to look for slights, and to
be self-obsessed in a negative way.  All the people who have made it in
this world say that they first had to do things their own way, and to shut
out negativity, concentrating on the goal they had in mind.  This does the
exact opposite.

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