From: David Andrews 
Subject: Re: Mister Magoo And The NFB 1 of 2
That is of course not true, but since all you really want to do is cast
aspersions on the NFB, it really doesn't matter.
People spoke on both sides of a number of resolutions, and were not thrown
out.
You however put a negative angle on everything, despite your lack of
knowledge and lack of information to the contrary.
David Andrews
On 1997-07-26 NFB-Talk@NFBnet.org said:
 SK>i am sure if anyone had aposed it, they would have been cast out of
 SK>the nfb. At 04:57 PM 7/26/97 -0400, you wrote:
 SK>>Phil,
 SK>>        I won't address your openion of the Mr. Magoo issue; it's
 SK>>your openion and you'reentitled to it.  I also won't address your
 SK>>assertion that it is an issue of political correctness, even
 SK>>though I don't agree; it goes beyond that.  What I will address,
 SK>>however is your speculation that all 3000 delegates could not have
 SK>>agreed upon the resolution.  I believe the number was actually
 SK>>closer to 3300, and while there may have been a few  dissenting
 SK>>votes (perhaps a dozen or so if my ears were counting accurately),
 SK>>no one chose to express that openion when President Maurer invited
 SK>>discussion prior to the vote.  The subsequent vote was
 SK>>overwhelmingly in support of the resolution.  Furthermore, I don't
 SK>>believe any but the nievely optimistic believe we will affect
 SK>>Disney's decision to produce the movie, but at least we have drawn
 SK>>public attention to the potential harm to public perceptions,
 SK>which will cause people who will ultimately see the movie to pause
 SK>>and reflect before accepting the negative images presented  as
 SK>>accurate. >                                         David At 05:08
 SK>>PM 7/23/97 -0500, you wrote: ...I'm not running the NFB but if I
 SK>>>>were, I would not have gone national with the resolution but
 SK>>>>would have quietly, behind the scenes, written the concerns to
 SK>>>>Disney.  Will a private, or public, out cry by 3,000 blind
 SK>>>>delegates, representing a membership of 50,000, have any effect
 SK>>>>on what Disney does?  Not in a pigs eye.  Money is what counts.
 SK>>>>Just ask Mike tyson.  I also find it extremely difficult to
 SK>>>>bring myself to believe that all 3,000 delegates, that's what
 SK>>>>was reported on the local news here, voted 100 percent for this
 SK>>>>resolution.  Man, not even the Southern Baptist all agreed on
 SK>>>>their gay rights position concerning Disney. If the nfb got all
 SK>>>>3,000 delegates to agree on this one, they indeed have achieved
 SK>>blind solidarity.... David W. Bundy, MSW
 SK>>President, South Carolina Association of Blind Students
 SK>>National Federation of the Blind
 SK>>Independint Representative, Destiny Telecomm International
 SK>>Telephone: (803) 252-2667
 SK>>E-Mail:   bundy@netside.com S-Mail: 2306 Sumter St., Columbia. SC
 SK>>29201 http://www.netside.com/~bundy
 SK>>SCABS Homepage: http://www.netside.com/~bundy/scabs
 SK>Shawn Keen
 SK>orange@texas.net
 SK>www.eden.com/~orange
 SK>"love isn't blind, but the braille sure is fun."
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