[Cagdu] FW: Seeing Eye couple refused cab

Tue Mar 4 13:15:15 PST 2008

Subject: Seeing Eye couple refused cab

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A few hours ago I witnessed discrimination of the
1960's ilk as three
airport taxicab drivers in succession refused the
family in front of me.
Suddently
West Palm Beach became overcast and the human
condition grew cold. I watched
my new friends literally left on the curb as the
drivers sped away. Jim,
Ginger, Colby and Payton went from perplexed to
rightfully indignant.

The first driver actually shook his head no, then
paced, and noted that
"it's not going to happen." James expressed a
remarkable patience, rolling
his eyes a bit more than usual, but reserved. I was
talking with him at the
time and didn't realize what was actually transpiring.

These events played out in full view of an airport
crowd. With the second
rejection James took a firm step toward the curb.
Snappily dressed in
southern genteel tweed and manifesting a quite sense
of class, he became
professionally candid about these actions. The taxicab
drivers had publicly
and unabashedly refused them, and when James
threatened with legal action,
citing codes and the mandatory fines, the victims
became the confident
authorities.
The cabby
simply waved and fraudulently and cowered a lame
response, "I just went off
the clock."

A host of other drivers looked on, but none came
running. None raised their
voices in disagreement like those of us nearby. Then
came Delly, the next
cabby in line, a Nigerian American, and when he
politely agreed to let my
new friends share my cab, a bit of the tension was
eased.

Next came the logistics of getting into the cab with
their beautiful dogs,
Colby and Payton. In many ways, they're the eyes for
Dr. James and Ginger
Kutsch.
Little did the cabbies know that they had just
disrespected the President of
The Seeing Eye College, and a former computer science
professor at [West]
Virginia. James has a fortitude that mastered the
early computers long
before KayPro & Radio Shack models, and the many
current helps for seeing
impaired.
He also noted several cases of blind young women being
stranded in unwelcome
situations when cabbies refused them, which fueled his
desire to educate the
crowd today-"This happens all the time to my
colleagues, and cabs are
usually our only means of transportation. "

What didn't go unnoticed was the irony that all the
cabbies involved today
were African American, including the rather polite
manager who took
immediate action when notified. I'm not sure if
charges will be filed, but
when I followed up with James at the hotel he noted
that the manager had
just called him again with the violators in front of
him. Their jobs were on
the line, but James noted that it wasn't their jobs he
was after, but their
education.

James and Ginger seem to see life more clearly than
many others. They're
also living examples that "The dream needs to be
stronger than the
struggle." If you want to learn more about their
college in Morristown, NJ,
or how to support the training and care of their
remarkable team of dogs, go
to their handy website at: www.seeingeye.org.

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