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From: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: hot topic
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Date: 28 Jun 91 14:40:49 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 TG> okay  Tim you just said the magic words, when you suggested
 TG> that the nfb spend more time on employment, you have broken the
 TG> Jamal rule and therefore as an expelled member of nfb I expell
 TG> you from the organization go forth and sin no more. tom G

Tom,  It is simplistic to think that if NFB had more of its staff, etc. directly
work on employment, (getting specific individuals jobs) that this would
dramatically solve the unemployment for the thousands of blind persons around
the country.  Like most things, this is a complex issue and is primarily
involved with overall attitudes towards blindness, blind people, what we can do
and people's expectations of us.
Everything we do in the NFB, and everything that other groups of the blind do,
and individuals for that matter, is related in some way towards employment and
improving the situation.
We will only change this thing through public education and changing people's
attitudes.  You do that one person at a time.  So, even if we increased the Job
Opportunities for the Blind staff ten times, for example, that wouldn't solve
the overall problem.
Unemployment of the blind is not one single issue that can be solved by passing
a single law or by any one specific act.
It is something that can only be changed by a variety of actions over a long
period of time.

... David andrews

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