The Low Road

I think that we are falling into a dangerous pattern in the United States. It seems that more and more we like to allay blame into three categories; racism, sexism, and discrimination. Believe it or not, sometimes things just are what they are. It's like Freud said; "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". Now it seems that money, yep good old greenbacks, are discriminatory. A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that money discriminates against the blind. The issue being that people who are blind cannot distinguish between the different denominations of our paper currency.
The Government has resisted the complete overhaul of our paper currency claiming that it would cost too much to "make the change", and leave our money more vulnerable to counterfeiting. I must admit the Government makes a good argument, they are however experimenting with small improvements to paper currency in order to assist the vision impaired. I would be all for doing what can be reasonably done to augment paper currency to make it easier for the blind. Like many Americans, I get so turned off when I here discrimination applied to this case. The currency problem is just that, a problem to be worked on to help improve the lives of people. Paper currency was not created centuries ago to discriminate against the blind. What's next, money discriminates against poor people who do not have much of it? Surprisingly one legally blind man, Charlie Richardson, disagrees with the Court's decision. He said; "To actually be discriminated against is to have something denied to you, we're not denied the use of money." Mr. Richardson has better vision where it really counts.


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