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From: Jamal.Mazrui@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org (Jamal Mazrui)
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Subject: Re: Expulsion from NFB now a fact
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Date: 29 Dec 90 03:16:09 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Tom, thanks for your messages.  We had certainly been kept from
the truth about a lot of internal actions in the NFB by Dr.
Jernigan.  Let us make it known to as many blind people as
possible what the whole storey is, a sad story of personal
vendettas he and other leaders have held against individuals
suspected of disloyalty and the ensuring unethical,
distatesteful, and destructive campaigns to expel them and
anyone associated with them.  These vendettas have not only been
unjust to the individuals targeted, but disturbingly destructive
to the organization itself.  I find it difficult to believe that
losing 3,500 members of the California affiliate, for example,
was in the interest of the organization because of Jernigan's
vendetta against Acosta.  If Sandy Sanderson made some mistakes,
which perhaps he did (I don't really know either way), was it
really worth losing the biggest fund raising talent the NFB has
had in recent history?  Sandy was a very dedicated Federationist
for years and years.  I am confident that there was more to the
story then we were told.  An occasional mistake or a personality
conflict should not provide the basis for major punitive action
against the individual and serious destruction of the
organization.  Federationists have a right to know that this
type of thing has been going on around the country for many
years now.  I am convinced that the NFB would be considerably
stronger today with more intelligent policies and priorities and
far less enemies if principles and processes of democrative
participation were observed.  Dr. Jernigan is and has been a
great civil rights leader for blind Americans, but that has not
meant that he could do no wrong.  
 
--Jamal--

 

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