Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!olivea!oliveb!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!89!David.Andrews From: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: Jamal and the NFB Message-ID: <16550@bunker.UUCP> Date: 3 Jan 91 03:19:43 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/89 - BlinkLink, Pittsburgh PA Lines: 36 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 12624 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] LM> I'd like to hear some of those responsible for LM> Jamal's expulsion defend their decision but that's probably not LM> possible since the national officers are most likely boycotting LM> computers and modems until every single computer in the country LM> is made accessible to the blind at government expense. I'm LM> being facetious Maybe your were, but it is cheap shots like that that help perpetuate the notion that we are a bunch of unreasonable bad people. LM> but seriously, I have a few questions maybe LM> someone can answer. First, is being a national officer of the LM> NFB a full-time job? If so, what does it pay? If in fact the LM> top people in the NFB are full-time employees, does their LM> income come from the local and state chapters? I'm not saying LM> they don't deserve to be payed, but if they are in fact payed LM> well, and yet seventy percent of the blind people in this LM> country are unemployed, then I wonder if the structure of the LM> NFB is perhaps akin to certain highly visible religious LM> organizations we've all grown to know and love over the past LM> few years. For your information, all the NFB national officers and board members serve as volunteers, as do all our members. Many of them devote great amounts of time to the organization, but at their own expense. Davied Andrews ... Your Sound Alternative -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!89!David.Andrews Internet: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org