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 PD> From: Pete Donahue  
 PD> Subject: Re: air lines 
 
 
 
 PD> Hello walt and listers, 
 
 PD> If anything was wrong with our taking the air lines to task
I bbelieve 
 PD> that it is in not making our own members and others
thoroughly 
 PD> understand why all the fuss over the seating of blind
passingers.  
 PD> Perhaps if more of a connection was made between this, and
encouraging 
 PD> the air lines to employ blind persons maybe more people
would 
 PD> understand the connection and there wouldn't be as much
opposition from 
 PD> both with, and out side of the Federation, and yes, much
more could 
 PD> have been done.  
 
I am not sure the airlines thing could have been improved by
relating it to employment, maybe but who knows.  We don't have
many people in a lot of industries, not just airlines.  We tend
to be concentrated in certain sgements and professions, most of
whom are not in private industry.
I think a large part of the problem with the airlines issue was
and is that most people are not far enough along in how they view
blind persons and our abilities to see it as a civil rights
issue.  If you have doubts about blind people and our abilities,
the safety thing makes perfect sense.  This isn't true only of
the sighted public, but many blind persons too.  It was the right
issue at the wrong time.  Maybe some day we will be ready for it,
but not now.
David Andrews
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