From: shawn keen 
Subject: Re: MR. MAGOO CONCERNS
hmm in dallas eh? hmm, maybe ill go, should be  a interesting time.
At 01:39 PM 7/12/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>Hello Matt and listers,
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>I for one am getting a little sick and tired of people making such charges
>about this organization; especially when they don't have all the facts.
>The truth is that at this year's convention we had a number of seminars
>and workshops dealing with both employment and technology.  There were
>also were a number of presenters that spoke on these items during the
>general sessions.  If you were at the convention you would have seen this
>for yourself.  The truth is that you have a money making opportunity in
>your hands that if you got off of it and started making it happen for
>yourself you could join us in Dallas nest year and learn what the NFB is,
>doing to help blind persons across the board right from the horses mouth,
>and not from his rear end.  
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>For one thing I was elected sEcretary of the newly formed National
>Association of Blind Entrumprenures; an organization that seeks to help
>those bolind persons who want to do so to start and grow their own
>businesses.  Now if that isn't helping blind persons whare employment is
>concerned I don't know what is.  My advice once again is to get your
>business up and running and youwill have the money tocome to National
>Events and to visit your friends all around the country whenever you want,
>and you willnot be religated to just having to see them at NFb
>gatherings.  If you want to know that the FEderationis doing whare all
>aspects of blindness are concerned get your information from your local
>chapter, and/or state affiliate and let's not forget our National Center
>for the blind.  You know that in your business you are taught that if you
>want to be successfull you must take help from those wyho have done what
>you want to do, and not from someone who is still in the rut.  Apply that
>same phillosophy toward this organization.  If you want to know that is
>being done in the Federation on any and all matters of concern to the
>blind consult your state and national leaders, and not those who have
>nother better to do than to sit on the side lines and throw stones.
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>Well on that note Mary and I are going dream building tonight.  Take care
>and have a good weekend.
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>Peter Donahue
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