From Lucia Marett, New York, NY:

In July’s Readers Forum, Chris Kuell wrote that “it is a fallacy that no one will hire blind people” in Phoenix, AZ. All a blind person needs, Chris suggested, is to “master the skills of braille, independent travel and computers, then help himself.” Unfortunately, Chris then wrote that blind people will not find work if they wait for an agency to help them and, very unfortunately, he concluded that “It is not society’s duty to help us.”
This is not true. It is society’s duty to offer gainful employment to blind people, so that they can make good. Everyone should be given a chance. Other minorities are given this chance. The onus should not be placed on blind people, but on society’s unwillingness. The unemployment picture is still abysmal. Discrimination does exist.