Education is a great start in the right direction, and I definitely agree with the things that you have said here. However, no matter how many laws we pass, no matter how well we try to educate; there are always going to be people who don’t understand, who don’t want to understand.

Here’s a good example, blacks are widely accepted in today’s society, but in the midst of that acception, you still have white supremacy groups who are against anything black related. So there are people in this nation of ours who will always believe that people with disabilities don’t deserve to be equal. We can’t change everyone’s minds, but we can help to change a great deal of the public mind by educating and providing laws and guidelines that people must follow.

I am a legally blind individual myself, and I have tried for years to look for suitable employment. However, since I was unable to secure a job for myself, I turned to the Internet, and now I am co-founder of a major program for the blind and visually impaired called the Blind Online Success System, which educates blind and visually impaired individuals on the aspects of setting up and running an online business through extensive mentoring and coaching.

You can visit our information page at the address here below

http://www.blindonlinesuccsssystem.com/info

I honestly believe that the blind and visually impaired can become a valuable part of society, but not just a valuable part, but a contributing part of society as a whole. That is why some people tell us that we must work harder than our sighted peers to prove that we can do the same things.

However, I don’t think that we have to work necessarily harder, but we have to use the adaptive technology and resources that we’re given to do these things.

One of the problems that we face with employment is the huge hurtle of whether or not the prospective employer will accept us as an equal partner in society, or is he, or she going to wane towards their own personal, and often times, negative views on blindness and not hire us.

More often than not, these prospective employers tend to wane towards their own personal views, and if that’s the case, no matter how good your skills are, or how much education you have had will matter because their decision has been made up. They’re not hiring you, and it is on with the next interviewee who will more than likely end up with the job simply because they have eyesight.

Yes, descrimination is running rampid in this great nation of ours. That is why I along with two other individuals, Jeff Wark and Lori Steffen had started the Blind Online Success System in the hope to give those who are blind and visually impaired a fare chance at running and owning their own businesses online.

It is high time that we tell our government that we’re tired of being treated like second class citizens, and it is time that the blind and visually impaired become an equal part of society, not some sort of burden.

The majority of the blind who are working are working in jobs that have no future. Jobs such as rolling silverware in a restaurant, loading the dishwasher, or working at sheltered workshops for slave labor while those who run these places are driving fancy cars, living in fancy homes, and laughing all the way to the bank, and yes; laughing at us.

However, we are moving in the right direction. There have been many changes made within the past few years that have made life for the blind and visually impaired that much easier. Technology being one of the greatest achievements to date.

I don’t know why it is, but when you go into a restaurant and they ask your friends what you would like to eat; do they assume that you’re also deaf? Where on Earth do they get the idea that you can’t speak for yourself?

I would have to say that those with a disability are actually the ones without the disability, and the ones without the disability are the ones with it because they can be quite ignorant at times. When we do do something, the ones without a disability think that it is truly amazing that we can even do these things. It can make you feel like a trained monkey at times who has just learned how to do something, and now the scientists are rushing round trying to show you off to the other scientists and the public.

Just because we use different methods to do the things that the sighted do doesn’t make what we do amazing, or outstanding. We just do it, plain and simple. We just go at it a different way that’s all.

People need to be valued for who they are, and not on what they wear, look like, or smell like. They need to be valued as equal parts of society and not a burden, or leach. People with disabilities have a lot to offer, and all that it takes is for the non-disabled to give us that fare chance.

I really thank you. You made open my eyes and mind.