Tony Baechler here. I don't know who you are, but I thank you! I couldn't
agree more! I went to the LCB. That was the worst month of my life! They
tried to take my SSI (I guess I shouldn't be allowed to manage my own
money), wouldn't help me learn even basic tasks and told me to sink or swim.
Huh? What about training? I'm a cane user and I don't like dogs out of
preference. Guide dogs were absolutely forbidden. Too bad if you have some
vision as you weren't allowed to use it. Oh, you need help in cooking class?
Too bad for you! I was very much a believer in the NFB until then, but no
more! I was a member at large of the ACB, but am not currently a member of
either. Of the two, the ACB is far more welcoming and friendly. I would join
them just for that reason, but I think their structured negotiation method
of getting things done as opposed to suing the pants off everyone works much
better and makes the blind look better. The NFB has benefitted from what the
ACB has done, just as the ACB has. I'm starting to see those few, rare times
when both worked together. I predict that within 20 years, they merge. Also,
the ACB split off the NFB in 1961.
On 4/25/2017 4:05 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
NFB members at a training center alienated me through their rigid
insistence on straight canes and failure to account for the
multiply-disabled or congenitally blind in training methods. I also
couldn't stomach their idea that I should run all my words and actions
through the "how does this make all blind people look" filter, or that
becoming normal should be my ultimate goal. Several of us in here
would have to lose a bunch of IQ points to be considered normal. And,
I hate the Borg.
That was over a decade ago. I'm on some of their mailing lists and I
have some of their folding) canes since those are useful things. I
won't join, but I've met some interesting individual members.
On 4/25/17, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The ACB's lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Treasury to make
them make money accessible was already flawed to say the least.
According to the United States Constitution, the power to design money
has been delegated to Congress, and the Department of the Treasury is
only responsible for carrying out the orders of Congress. Therefore, the
best way to make money accessible would have been for any and all
so-called advocacy organizations to lobby Congress and get a bill passed
and signed by the President of the United States that would redesign our
money in an accessible way. Do I think the ACB's lawsuit was a publicity
stunt? Absolutely, as if they wanted us to have accessible money for
sure, they would have gone through the proper channels and we would have
had it by now. Instead, where are we? No closer to truly accessible
currency than we were when this whole sleighride begen nearly 10 years
ago. Thank you, ACB and NFB for being such advocates for the needs of
blind and visually impaired citizens of the United States. Without your
petty bickering and your "We're not them" attitudes, the world would
certainly be a better and more friendly place for all of us.
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