[Community-service] Discussion starter

[Darian Smith, President, National Federation of the Blind Community Service Division]

Hi all,
 Just figured I would put this out there to get  some debate going.
 In a general  sense, the definition of community service can basically be boiled down to doing something for the benefit of a group of persons.
 In the NFB, we might consider community service  as anything we can do for the benefit of blind people, both within our membership and outside of it.
 In the Community Service Division, we tend to look at community service as a thing that a blind person might do that would benefit the larger community, not just other blind folks.
 We believe this distinction is important to make because often society believes that the only way that a blind person  can do good  is  if they are doing that  good within the bounds of blindness and the blind community.
 Do you agree with this assertion? Disagree? why or why not?