Word: blind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, the perception lingers that justice remains far from color- blind. "There is a view in this country that if you're poor and black or Hispanic or Native American, you won't get a fair deal," says James B. Eaglin, chairman of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice. "And the basic contentions that there are biases at every level of the system are well founded...
...really more like a resource," says Robert Glass, an NSEA member who directs the Louisvillebased Resource Center for the Disabled and worked for several years for the American Printing House for the Blind. "If you need some ideas about implementing this in your school let's talk about it," Glass says...
Before the advent of computer technology, the blind were unable to make corrections or proofread their work. Talking word processors now allow them to do this, Glass says...
...There's so much that you and I take for granted," says Glass, who has developed a special math program for blind children from kindergarten to second grade. "Things you take for granted like reading the daily newspaper" are only now becoming available to the blind, he says...
...what does this say about the Black voter? Instead of comparing Dukakis and Bush to each other, Blacks have been blind followers of Jesse Jackson. While many of Jackson's delegates did not agree with his anti-nuclear no-first strike proposal to the Democratic Platform, they still supported it because it was Jackson's idea. Are these people supporting Jackson or his issues...