From: Harvey Heagy 
Subject: Re: Why The NFB
That's the dangerous thing about absolute power.  At some point
any well intentioned leadership becomes too powerful and begins
to feed the power structure.  I too hope that Jamal is sincere
about working with the organization and will not attempt to
further his agenda about joining co-elisions and such as that
has already been proven to be a failure for blind people.  There
is an important difference between joining them and working along
side them when possible.
Also, remember that at the A.C.B.'s Greensboro Convention, I
believe, Jamal unsuccessfully ran for second vice-president of the
A.C.B. only a year before returning to the N.F.B.  But according to
a friend of mine who belongs to the A.C.B., the A.C.B. was cautious
remembering that they thought they had a blue chip in Robert Acosta
and found out later what a disaster it had to deal with much to its
chagrin and financial losses in the hundreds of
thousands of dollars.  So I hope his is a sincere effort, but I
still feel the national leadership should have apologized to him
for violating its own procedure in the expulsion process.  I am
not opposed to expulsion when warranted, but I regard it as a very
serious issue not to be taken lightly.  No matter what a person
may be guilty of, he or she still deserves a fair and proper
hearing.
Harvey
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