why the unemployment of the blind is still so very high

Subject: why the unemployment of the blind is still so very high

Good Sunday Morning All,

 

Both national organizations of the blind are deeply concerned over the lack of employment among blind people. 

Unless we have become so jaded and cynical that we believe the ACB and the NFB exist only to profit the few Top Dogs, then there can be no question regarding why these organizations continue laboring in the field of Work for the Blind. 

In fact, the evidence of their concern and of their years of commitment toward First Class Citizenship of Blind men and women is overwhelming. 

So then, why is it that change seems so slow? 

Why are so many of our fellow blind citizens finding the door of opportunity locked when they attempt to enter? 

It's in our Nature to blame our woes on those closest to us.  The child who wants a shiny new bike will blame Mom and Dad, accusing them of not caring, when the bike does not appear by the Christmas tree. 

To the child, it is obvious.  His parents do not care if he has a shiny new bike or not.  Failure to produce that bike has to be his parents fault. 

The child has no concept of what is going on beyond the walls of his home.  He can't know that his parents are struggling simply to pay the rent, buy food, heat the house and purchase the essentials needed to exist. 

He only knows that he has no shiny new bike. 

Like that child, so many of us stand in front of the door of opportunity, wanting in, eager to seek employment, longing to share in our nation's Bountiful Blessings, only to find the door locked.  Naturally we turn to our organizations and point the finger of blame.  We cry out that it they were keeping their promise of a better world for the blind, we would all be working and enjoying our American Dream. 

But outside the walls of our "Land of the Blind", there is a real world.  And it is not kindly disposed to us Blind Folk.  Sure, we've been told that we live in the richest nation ever.  We believe that we are a Republic, a democracy, a Free People.  But we ignore the fact that we are first and foremost a Capitalist economy.  And in this system the bottom line is not the desire to train and employ all blind people desiring work.  The bottom line is *Profit! 

Profit.  it is profit that has caused the most powerful nation in history to declare eternal war on Terror.  It is not that there is more Terror today than 100 years ago.  In fact, we might argue that our very strength has diminished the threat against us.  But there is unbelievable profit in war.  Trillions of dollars are swept up and salted away by the international corporations.  They not only do not care about employment of the blind, they actually do not care about the very nation that spawned them. 

Even as we work to support our organizations of the blind, striving to make them more effective rather than tearing them down, even as we do this we must also begin the job of demanding a more equitable system, one that opens doors to all who seek too enter. 

 

Carl Jarvis

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Ken Metz

To: n8mnx@comcast.net ; acb-l@acb.org

Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 8:14 PM

Subject: Re: [acb-l] why the imployment of the blind is still so very high

Hi Brian.

 

What ideas do you have for a part of the solution?

 

KEN

 

From: acb-l-bounces@acb.org [mailto:acb-l-bounces@acb.org] On Behalf Of n8mnx@comcast.net
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 1:51 PM
To: acb-l@acb.org
Subject: [acb-l] why the imployment of the blind is still so very high

 

Hi this is Brian Sackrider and the problem is that both of the national orginations for the blind are not doing anythings about this problem and nothing will ever change until they do something about the problem of imployment of the blind and the high cost of assistive technology that the blind need to be able to do the jobs that are out there.  Both of the 2 orginations really don't care about this problem it should be an imbarasment to them but if they did care then they would be doing something about the problem and you know what they say that if you are not part of the sulution then you are part of the problem. 

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