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From: Grant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey)
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Subject: Re: Pending Expulsion from NFB
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Date: 4 Feb 91 17:06:31 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

David I certainly appreciate your stonch defense of the NFB and what it
stands for.  There was a time I would have said the same types of
things. It is a fact that the NFB has done great things for the blind
of this country and if it weren't for the NFB many theings that benefit
the blind would have happened much more slowely or maybe not at all.
However I think you should appreciate the fact that many of the people
including myself who are complaining about the NFB expulsion tactics
are those people who have put in a lot of time, energy, and divotion to
what they believe in.  In my case I gave it my all, and I mean all if I
wasn't working I was doing NFB stuff.  For a new president to be
elected as happened in our state affiliate, Louisiana, at the timeI'm
referring to and this new Presideit came in and vertually distroyed the
chapter I'd worked sohard to build up and though I had an excellent
record of work formany years I was 58removed from my duties because I
reazisted changes that I didn't feel were right.  No I wasn't expelled
but I may as well of been.  Besides my own case there are dozens and
dozens more.  For all that the NFB does that is good and it is a lot it
seems to be a big balack mark on the NFB when people know about its
internal ways of dealing with people it feels that are out of line.
There seems to be somuch of this negative diciplinary junk going on
that it appears that the orgizational focus is way out of kilter.
Where there is smoke there is fire and there seems to be a bad one
somewhere in the organization. Grant

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