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From: Jamal.Mazrui@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org (Jamal Mazrui)
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Subject: Re: Resignation statement as an NFB officer
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Date: 29 Dec 90 03:15:59 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hi Grant!  I agree with your statement.  If the public only know
how much of the NFB's resources were being devoted to fueling
vendettas against individual members as opposed to serving blind
people, I think the fundraising revenues would be significantly
less.  I understand the the Federation spent several hundred
thousand dollars in court to expel a California affiliate of
3,500 members in the early 80's and in the last couple of years
spent three hundred thousand dollars to expel the Alaska
affiliate.  In my case the sums have been relatively small so
far, but it is significant to consider that the Massachusetts
affiliate was required by the national office to pay for the national
president to fly down at short notice and without consultation
with the state board in order to appear at a state board meeting
at which he tried to get a motion passed to expel me.  When this
motion failed at the state level, Iwas never offered a plane
fare to Baltimore to defend myself before the national board.
 
--Jamal--

 

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