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From: William.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson)
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Subject: Re: Expulsion from NFB now a fact
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Date: 10 Jan 91 17:59:59 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 JM> the ear and designed carefully and reliably.  My thinking
 JM> started to change on this when our beloved BlinkTalk friend,
 JM> Sara, dies at a traffic intersection last year.  I recently
 JM> happened to talk with Sara's roommate at the time and learned,
 JM> sadly, that the Federation has kept its distance from this case

Jamal,
     Yes, wouldn't it be nice if everything was as black and white as
the NFB seems to like to portray it?
     It is, in my humble opinion, (I am an outsider, after all!) only
when the NFB starts recognizing this fact that they will be able to
maintain the good quality of local leaders they have done in the past.
Obviously, with not only your story, but with the others we've seen here
and the several cases of local power struggles I am familiar with that
are occuring in the NFB, there is a strong apprehension at some higher
level in the Federation to permit such heracy as questioning the goals
that have been established.
     Yeah, it sure makes things easy if you paint something as either
good or bad, and deny that there can indeed be two sides to something,
each with merit, but even within the two major political parties in this
country (I don't really like this analogy with the NFB and the ACB, but
it's been used here so many times I have to bring it up!) there are
varying degrees of support for a position on any issue, including
totally opposite approaches in some cases within one party!  That's why
we see change in the political parties, they do on some level listen to
their membership, while it takes not one bit of wisdom to guess the NFB
position on an issue that affects us as blind people, as it is the same
old story we've heard from them all along!

     Thanks Jamal, for remembering Sara, cause I've done likewise many
times over the past year!
     I'd love to hear what she would have to say about this whole
matter!
                                                        Willie
     

... BlinkTalk, Dr. Deb and Silver in Pittsburgh!

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