[Nfb-editors] Seeking diversity

[LoriStay at aol.com]

my personal feeling is that sighted members join because they are aligned 
with a blind person, whether spouse, parent, sib or child.   We also have a 
teacher of the blind in our chapter.   We have never had the problem of 
having too many sighted members.
Lori

In a message dated 3/19/11 7:22:28 PM, bpollpeter at hotmail.com writes:


> 
> We have a strong leadership which guides us and sets the atmosphere, but
> this would be the same leadership with any members-- blind or sighted.
> So the only difference I see in your argument is that blind
> Federationist are on the same page, and sighted Federationist would only
> want to control us and change the heart of the NFB.  I wonder how our
> current sighted members would feel about this?
> 
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