[BlindTlk] Caring concerns of James and Susan Gashel

[Mark Tardif]

This is all extremely important information.  Thank you.



Mark Tardif
Nuclear arms will not hold you.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Ericka via BlindTlk
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 9:41 AM
To: gwunder at earthlink.net ; Blind Talk Mailing List
Cc: Ericka
Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] Caring concerns of James and Susan Gashel

I am not defending anyone. To take that into consideration as you read.

I do know there are people that training centers who have either hurt others 
sexually or have been victims themselves. Is this a Bolinas issue? Yes it 
is. We cannot control the rest of the world what we can’t control how are 
training centers react. Having a policy coming from the headquarters of the 
NFB it does not tolerate this gives power to the victims and the staff to 
either throw out a client who is being abusive or a staff member who is 
being abusive. And we also must remember that not everyone is comfortable 
bringing harassment and sexual abuse/violence.  Well I have not been 
sexually assaulted etc. there is a lot of shame involved. They feel they 
could have prevented it. They wonder what’s wrong with them. So many 
emotions and society doesn’t help. Still today the victim is looked at as 
the one who “asked for it.“ And there’s a lot of drinking going on during 
conventions.. I’m people are not any different. I am certain somethings 
happened that aren’t wanted.  We have to admit in someway that we are not 
perfect blind people. Having said this, the code of conduct and How as an 
organization we handle things needs to be a combination of allowing other 
agencies to assist yes we have a cancer survivors support group. That’s 
good. We do need a support group for this.  For support, resources, and 
access to assistance at a lower cost through the human services division 
perhaps. I may not be elegant at what I’m saying here, but I think everyone 
understands where I’m going. perfect;

For example was look at training for NFB training center staff and seminars 
and how to protect yourself from sexual predators. How do you recognize Anna 
genuine act of respect and affection versus abuse. Remember many students 
are coming with no self-esteem and lack of confidence to begin with. For 
someone  who tends tord disrespectful actions he’s been down students seem 
like prime targets. We begin with hard and fast rules and training in the 
centers which is directly behind us related. Then slowly look for or other 
situations where they come up? This week we are changing but not 
dramatically. We cannot react just something that happened 40 years ago but 
we can’t change how we do things where it has the most impact. We must take 
those folks complaint seriously. But I don’t think what’s currently 
constructed is best.
Ericka Nelson

> On Jul 12, 2021, at 5:29 PM, Gary Wunder via BlindTlk 
> <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> It is very easy for an issue to be exploded in so many directions that it 
> is impossible to discuss any part of it constructively. May we narrow this 
> to one point for the moment? I want to know when the NFB has ever asked me 
> or any of you to apologize for our being White, for our geographic 
> location, or our religious beliefs? The only thing I've been asked to do 
> is accept that not everyone in our circle shares these characteristics 
> with me. At no point have I ever been asked to leave my other 
> characteristics at the door and just be blind. I have been accepted as a 
> package and have felt prized as a member. I want to extend that to others 
> as it has been extended to me. How to implement do unto others is harder 
> than asserting it as one of my values, but I'm willing to undertake the 
> challenge, and I think my brothers and sisters in the NFB are willing to 
> do the same.
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