From: shawn keen 
Subject: Re: MR. MAGOO CONCERNS
disagree a member of your group says i am full of negative thoughts and hate.
so i am accused of name calling.
hmmm.
i know a bit about the nfb, i know that when i was in the austin chapter
they would rather talk about how much money we had and how meny users we
had, instead of actually doing anything.
i guess now that we have newsline they have more or something to bost about.
/s
At 07:45 PM 7/7/97 -0400, you wrote:
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>Hmmm, do I smell flame-bait or what? (grin).
>Civil rights organizations have broad agendas, and the rights and
>first-class citizenship of marginalized individuals are more than
>opportunity and accessibility (education, jobs, training, technology) --
>in fact, all of these are rendered more easily attainable by changed
>perceptions and attitudes.  I don't think anyone believes we're going to
>stop Disney from making this m ovie, but the idea that powerful, wealthy
>corporations and/or individuals can do whatever they wish and should be
>unopposed because it would be futile is simply defeatist and wrong.
>Recent case in oint: tobacco industryl.  Not so recent: automakers -- does
>the name Ralph Nader ring a bell?  
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>Provoking thought and ebate about Mr. Magoo and the reinforcing of
>stereotypes about the blind is far better than saying and doing nothing.
>And of course it's very easy to use this issue to make blanket statements
>about an organization of which you clearly are ill-informed.  The
>convention agenda had plenty of job and technology items on it; and I had
>numerous opportunities to discuss these issues at length at the
>convention.  It's all connected, part of the same bundle.  The NAACp, the
>Jewish Anti-Defamation League -- and similar groups have and still do
>oppose media which portray stereotypes of their members.  We all can't be
>happy all the time with the prioities a large organization makes, but to
>become ad hominem and spew blanket generalizations because you disagree
>with a particular policy is not going to resolve anything.  How about some
>suggestions rather than name-calling and baiting?
>Christine
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