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From: Grant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey)
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Subject: Re: NFB
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Date: 23 Jan 91 15:27:31 GMT
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Your points are very well taken and after a little thought I think you 

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

are right.  It is easy to really get fired up and really angry when you 
have put your whole self, time, effort, and desire into making your 
area of expertees in an organization work.  Most certainly I blew off 
some steem in my comments but I do think that if we all sat down around 
a table, at a party, or wherever, all of those with varing opinions 
would maybe not come away with totally changed perspectives but would 
at least have a better understanding. I recall a time for many years 
when I was a dyhard NFB member ready to defend with all wepons 
available to me .  Not only was I visually disabled, I was blind in my 
thinking process following like a sheep and spouting off any time I had 
a change the defense of the organized blind.  I would never do that 
again in any lorganization but I've got a few years under my belt and 
hopefully some maturity along the way.  However I still have a strong 
desire to do my part to make things better for people with visual 
disabilities and if there was a viable chapter here I would jolin the 
ACB as it seems as though at present the ACB leadership has a much more 
logical and well thought out approach to problem solving for the blind. 
Grant

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