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From: David.Andrews@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews)
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Subject: Re: NFB/ACB differences
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Date: 20 Jul 90 20:21:58 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

WS> AS far as back stabbing by other organizations, maybe you  
 WS> should look at who is doing the back stabbing.   
      
 Walter,  No one is above reproach here, not just the NFB.
 
 WS> As far as belonging to both organizations, it is Jernigan who  
 WS> says you can't belong to both.  The ACB does not say that you  
 WS> cannot belong to both organizations.   
      

The ACB has spent its share of time taking pot shots at the NFB.  I
do not say this to throw stones per sae, the NFB has done the same
thing.  However,  if your organization has taken public positions
against another organization and its members, how can you in good
faith belong to both.  Ultimately, we all are either for or against
something.

 WS> As far as the two organizations working together, on local
 WS> levels they do.  It is on the national level that they do not
 WS> work together.  The ACB works in cooperation with other WS>
 organizations, but the NFB does not.  I was at the White House WS>
 for the handicapped one year, and so was Jernigan, and when he WS>
 could not run it, he called a meeting and tried to wreck it.

I am not sure of what specific event you are fereering.  While I
could be wrong, I do not think that Dr. Jernigan would try to
wreck a meeting he "couldn't run."  I suspect your smmary is a
simplification of what happened.  Luckily, I believe that both the
NFB and ACB have matured in the last decade.  I see less
gratuitious potshots by both organizations.  There have even been a
number of meetings between NFB, ACB, AFB and others over the past
few years.  While it is unlikely that we will all kiss and make up,
things seem to go a little smoother, which is good.  David Andrews

... Your Sound Alternative

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