[Blind-international-students] introducing myself and comments on your discussion

[David Andrews]

You are asking a black and white question, that isn't.  You are 
asking a yes or no question, but the answer is more subtle.  It isn't 
the disagreeing, necessarily, but how you do it, and what you do 
about it.  There are things I have disagreed with, but I kept my 
mouth shut.  Opening it wouldn't change anything, and wouldn't help 
me in the organization.  If your disagreement is fundamental, or 
large, then you should ask yourself if you should be involved with 
the organization.

If blindness organizations were like a restaurant, the NFB isn't a 
cafeteria.  That is you can't take a little of this, a little of 
that, and skip the rest of it.  We are going to give you a set meal, 
decided by NFB policy.  You don't have to eat it all, you can leave 
some, hide it, etc., but you can't throw it back in the face of the 
waiter because you don't like it.

Hope this makes sense.

Dave

At 09:43 PM 8/8/2010, you wrote:
>Guido,
>Actually your assurtion that I am fixated on the currency issue is 
>not at all true. I have managed my money successfully for 31 years 
>and have not been shorted changed that I can remember, but what I am 
>arguing is the basic principal of independently managing one's money 
>without having to ask for sighted assistance. As a friend of my said 
>the other day "we forced to adapt ourselves to money which is not 
>accessable not by choice but by cercumstances". Basically what I am 
>arguing is that bringing identifiable currency can realisticly be 
>achieved and it would benefit alot of blind people. This is all I am 
>arguing. Let me ask a simple question from Guido , Dave and everyone 
>"can members of this list openly disagree with NFB"?
>Anmol
>I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. 
>Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, 
>like a breeze among flowers.
>Hellen Keller
>

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