From: Barbara Freeman 
Subject: Re: No Pity Extract  part 1
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 cedisabl@sprynet.com wrote:
> CE Disabled Services
> 
> With the NFB convention coming soon, I felt a few extracts from Joseph 
Shapiro's
> book "NO PITY" might create some food for thought. .....
> Dr Clyde Shideler
> 
> 
>  Page  126                                                       No Pity
> ........... Members of the National Federation of the
> Blind made a lonesome break with other disability groups and
> withheld support of the ADA.
What the Federation did was insist that all disabled persons have the the
right to turn down an accommodation that was unwanted or inappropriate.
As a matter of fact according to the National Braille Press the Number of
Blind People working has gone down since the passage of the ADA.  
It is not a cure all.  
Please check your history.  
Cyberspaced Barbie
Barbara Freeman
barbie@pacifier.com
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