[nabs-l] Ending the NFB/ACB feud

[clinton waterbury]

I don't think we should completely combine, however I do think we need  
to bury the hatchet for crying out loud!  It's like England and  
America, we weren't allies in the beginning because of the  
revolutionary war, but all these years later, we're allies who don't  
always agree on the same courses of action, but we burried the  
hatchet.  The same thing needs to happen between the ACB and nfb or I  
don't see how either one is even going to survive.
On May 18, 2009, at 8:17 PM, Aziza C wrote:

> If this is true, then why is it so difficult to fathom a joint student
> seminar possibly working out? Why is there so much opposition.
> Differences aren't anything to be feared. We're all different, and
> yet, we've all managed to pull together to work together when we've
> wanted to. I can promise you I don't read the NFB philosophy the same
> way Angela does, or Jedi, or Joe, or Jim, but we do have common
> interests, and can work together. Why can't we search for those common
> interests and see what we can do with other blind people from the ACB?
> We may be different, think different, but is that really a reason to
> keep us at bay? History, differences in oppinion and philosophy, and
> previous failures. These are the reasons I'm seeing, and I don't think
> any of these are enough to say we shouldn't try.
>
> On 5/18/09, tina thomas <tinadt at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have never heard any NFB member say they hate any other  
>> organization. What
>> I have heard and experienced is that the philosophies and   
>> priorities of the
>> NFB and ACB  are very different.
>> Tina
>>
>> "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own  
>> instead of
>> someone else's."
>> - Billy Wilder
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org]  
>> On Behalf
>> Of Ashley Bramlett
>> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 3:44 PM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Ending the NFB/ACB feud
>>
>> Aziza,
>> The ACB hates the nfb.  The leadership has different goals and  
>> priorities.
>> Also different philosophies.  Rank and file members of NFB often  
>> get along
>> as aquaintances with ACB and vise versa.  However we are too  
>> unlike.  We are
>> best kept separate.  If you or anyone thinks we should merge  
>> successfully,
>> you are niave and do not know the history.  Why don't you read the  
>> version
>> of history of each group?  The ACB is People of Vision.  The nfb is  
>> Walking
>> alone and Marching Together.
>>
>>
>> Ashley
>>
>>
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