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From: David.Andrews@f778.n115.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews)
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Subject: NFB Expulsion
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Date: 14 Jan 91 21:47:02 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Jeff,
There are over 50,000 NFB members nationwide, so expulsion is certyainly 
not as widespread as you would have us believe.  Yes, there are people 
who have been expelled.  There is a point at which dissention is not 
tolerated.  If I were in charge I suppose that this point would be a 
little higher then it is, but it is a judgment call.  We havealways had a 
strong leadership.  It is why we also get a lot done, and have such 
committed members.  You choose to see us as mindless goose stepping 
automotons, but it just isn;'t so.,  As a sighted person, why do you have 
it in so for the NFB?  
The NFB has moderated many of its stands over the past five years and has 
put a lot of effort into establishing better relations with organizations 
such as AFB.  We have participated heaviny in what is being called the 
"Joint Organizational Effort" which is meetings between NFB, AFB, ACB, 
AERBVI, NLS, Canadian orghanizations etc.  However, you and others seem 
to have made up your minds that we are bad evil people and everything we 
do is automatically wrong.  As you have the right to say and think what 
you will, so do we.  We can run our organization in the way in which we 
choose.  If it is wrong, then a mass exodus of memberrs will tell us so. 
We haven't seen that since the NFB ACB split in the early 1960s, and more 
stayed then left.
David Andrews

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