From: David Andrews 
Subject: Re: Why The NFB
The incident you are beating to death happened 7 years ago, and Jamal is in
the organization again.  Let it go, he has!
David andrews
At 09:24 AM 4/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>Harvey,
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>	I can't see the leadership apologizing to Jamal.  Of course they 
>should, but that would imply they made a mistake in what they did.  You 
>can't admit to a mistake when you want to make sure you keep all your 
>power.  It may not even be a calculated decision to not apologize, though 
>I think that may have been discussed when they talked about his case 
>while considering accepting his membership.  Rather, I think the idea of 
>an apology may even offen some of the board since they cannot consider 
>the possibility that they may be in the wrong.
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>On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Harvey Heagy wrote:
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>> 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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