[msb-alumni] LSJ Finally Published my Letter to the Editor About Richard Bernstein
- From: Steve <pipeguy920@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 13:24:13 -0500
BlankThis didn't make the NFB Newsline, I don't think. It was in the print
edition on Wednesday, I just found out from my sister.
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Letter: Blind needn’t be ‘super’ to succeed
Justice Bernstein is accomplished, but don’t rule others out
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Letter: Blind needn’t be ‘super’ to succeed
Justice Bernstein is accomplished, but don’t rule others out
Check out this story on lansingstatejournal.com: http://on.lsj.com/1CZXGNk
Letter: Blind needn’t be ‘super’ to succeed
5:21 p.m. EST February 4, 2015
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein, left, walks down the
hallway oustide his office with T.J. Bucholz, president of Vanguard Public
Relations, in January. The writer responds to an article about Bernstein,
who is blind, and discusses employment opportunities for the blind.(Photo:
Dave Wasinger/Lansing State Journal)
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Article about blind justice does injustice to the blind.
I’d be the first to laud the many accomplishments of Richard Bernstein,
scion of the law firm that bears his father’s name. But, the article (LSJ,
Dec. 29) leaves the implication that only a super-blind person possessive of
extraordinary drive and powers of photographic memory can be successful.
This is unfortunate! Under/unemployment amongst the blind is over 70
percent! I know many other successful blind people who are members of
management in the private or governmental sectors.
As a blind individual with over 20 years in human resource management and
now doing computer tech support, there is a lot of technology that makes you
as productive as any other employee. If documents are accessible, you can
read much faster using assistive technology than you can with an aide. I can
use any Microsoft Office program well enough to function in an office
environment, writing memoranda as well as email exchanges and managing a
work-group calendar. It is important readers understand there are capable
productive individuals who aren’t “super-blind.”
Steve Pollo
Lansing
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