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From: Beth.Hatch-Alleyne@f207.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Beth Hatch-Alleyne)
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Subject: Re: blind politics
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Date: 18 Jun 91 16:20:04 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Jeff; that's precisely the problem.  People think we're more
vulnerable than sighted people, but the record doesn't show it.
Blind people were not victimized by criminals any more than sighted
people.  I myself have taken self defense classes, and I know of a
number of blind people who have done the same.  I also know people
who are martial arts experts.  It is a common misconception that
we're more vulnerable than the average sighted person, some of us
are, and some of us aren't, just like the sighted population.  But
blindness, itself, doesn't mean we're unable to handle ourselves in
a mugging, or that muggers will try to mug us.  Some will think it's
easy, and some will do it, while others will not in Tyrone's case,
Beth.[D

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