[Blindtlk] NFB Blood Drive

[Mike Freeman]

Peter:

This is going a bit afield so I'll let it ride after this post.

But I seem to be one of the few NFB individuals who finds the trend toward
advocating that the NFB engage in "community service" events not having to
do with blindness disturbing at best and downright contrary to NFB
philosophy at worst. Mind you, I'm not against community service events.
However, I take NFB philosophy to imply that we, the blind, have the right,
nay the duty, to integrate ourselves into society and we should therefore
participate in community service events by joining organizations whose
purposes include conducting such events. IMO NFB should confine itself
*strictly* to blindness-related happenings and activities. Straying from
this principle IMO opens us up to the charge that we're endorsing particular
causes -- which we are not unless they're blindness-related and have become
policy of this organization through resolutions or NFB Board or convention
directives.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Peter Donahue
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 8:20 PM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] NFB Blood Drive

Hello Mike and everyone,

    I wasn't thinking so much among prejudicial lines but along the lines of

community service. Other entities have the same concerns and conduct 
successful blood drives all the time. So why not learn from them?

 As for the nurse at national convention if folks know how to care for 
themselves and how to handle emergencies perhaps his/her services weren't 
needed in the first place. I was once on a convention  tour with an 
individual who fell and sprained her ankle. We notified the nurse when we 
returned to the convention hotel. She told me to get her to the emergency 
room which I did at my expense. This was during our 1990 convention in 
Dallas. Had we not been able to reach the nurse common sense  would have 
told us that this individual needed medical attention. She has long since 
recovered from this injury.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] NFB Blood Drive


Peter:

With great respect, how do you *know* there were no liability concerns? Did
you *run* these blood drives? I suspect not.

When I wrote of liability concerns, these had absolutely *nothing* to do
with blindness. They would be present with *any* large group. I don't want
to lay it on too thickly but have you ever wondered why NFB no longer
employs a nurse at national conventions?

Don't knee-jerk react that *everything* has a prejudicial slant!

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Peter Donahue
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 2:12 PM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] NFB Blood Drive


Hello everyone,

    In response to my message in which I described a blood drive that took
place at a recent national convention in Louisville I was told that the
reason why this activity has not been repeated was due to "Too many
liabilities." Churches, places of employment, colleges, universities, the
military, and a host of other agencies and organizations hold successful
blood drives with little or no concerns over liability. Countless lives are
saved by those who donate blood when these drives are conducted by these
entities so what's the big deal?It was Dr. Jernigan who in an article called

"Local Organizations of the Blind, How to Build and Strengthin Them"
suggested that affiliate blood banks could be established and that we could
hold blood drives. If other entities can conduct successful blood drives
perhaps we should revisit this idea and conduct future blood drives like the

one in Louisville. Perhaps Mary was able to help save someone's life, or
allow someone needing surgery in which the patient would need blood during
the operation to have the surgery. I believe further explaination is in
order.

Peter Donahue




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