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From: Beth.Hatch-Alleyne@f207.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Beth Hatch-Alleyne)
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Subject: Re: Exit Row Survey
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Date: 28 Jun 91 14:36:27 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Walter; although I respect your opinion, I must disagree with you
about the exit row question.  I'm not sure how I would react in a
fire, neither am I sure that sighted passengers would be compitent
either.  I don't think I should be barred from an exit just because
I'm blind, it's a matter of civil rights, it is not that I want to
sit in the exits and nowhere else on an air plane.  But I should not
be thought  incompitent solely on the basis of my visual acuity.  I
don't think I'm making mountains out of moal hills.  That's what
they may have said about Rosa Parks, when she decided that she
wasn't going to give up her seat for a white man, or that black
people had to ride in the back of the bus.  I feel that any
compitent blind person is as compitent as any sighted person when we
use our skills of blindness.  Sight is deffinitely more convenient
in a lot of ways, but I am not going to feel inferior, or let anyone
think I'm inferior, because I don't have it, Beth.

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