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Title
Geer Wilcox Clip "Resentment"
Creator
Geer Wilcox
Description
Geer Wilcox talks about the feelings among his students of being unable to move forward with their lives.
Date Created
1964
Subject
Teaching, National School for the Blind
Spatial Coverage
reel-to-reel recording
Rights
American University Library Archives and Special Collections
Identifier
Peace Corps Community Archives, Geer Wilcox collection, reel 18, side A
Publisher
American University Library Archives and Special Collections
Date Issued
25 January 2019
Is Part Of
Geer Wilcox Collection,
Type
audio correspondence
Format
reel-to-reel
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Transcription
It's getting time for school to close. I know one who's--only has his brother left, and he's going to Puerto Rico, and has a fixed position over there at this point. And so he has really no place to go ho. Go--Go home to. And he's a little worried. And he's a real case in itself.
He is bright and talented, I think. Can learn quickly, is really adept with his hands. Can type and write, and really would have a fair chance, I think, if he put his mind to finding work and doing something. But he's got an attitude, which I don't know where it stems from. He seems to feel that the government owes him something because he's blind. That the people in this country are not ready for the blind to go out and find work and participate. He's not willing to put out the extra effort it might take to become a member of society and to fill the position.
He feels that blind people in general can't do as good a job as sighted people at anything. And I have a feeling that he resents, perhaps, his blindness for the fact that he's going to have to work, if he can find it. He feels oppressed, I think, or paralised, perhaps, by the lack of reception society would give a blind person here. Also, his lack of knowledge about himself as to what he can do, what he can learn, and his lack of confidence also fill in the picture. I'm trying to get him to think positively and try to figure out how he might find work and the first thing he told me was, "Well, you don't know the people of this country. I do, it's my country."
He is bright and talented, I think. Can learn quickly, is really adept with his hands. Can type and write, and really would have a fair chance, I think, if he put his mind to finding work and doing something. But he's got an attitude, which I don't know where it stems from. He seems to feel that the government owes him something because he's blind. That the people in this country are not ready for the blind to go out and find work and participate. He's not willing to put out the extra effort it might take to become a member of society and to fill the position.
He feels that blind people in general can't do as good a job as sighted people at anything. And I have a feeling that he resents, perhaps, his blindness for the fact that he's going to have to work, if he can find it. He feels oppressed, I think, or paralised, perhaps, by the lack of reception society would give a blind person here. Also, his lack of knowledge about himself as to what he can do, what he can learn, and his lack of confidence also fill in the picture. I'm trying to get him to think positively and try to figure out how he might find work and the first thing he told me was, "Well, you don't know the people of this country. I do, it's my country."
Original Format
reel-to-reel
Duration
2:26
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