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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thank you Megan and Brad. I appreciate the guidance. LaDonna has already reached out, but I didn’t respond appropriately. This is a great learning opportunity for me and I appreciate the support. Individuals make mistakes, but great individuals learn from them and make it better next time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>2 things.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Is WTF a profanity? Is it offensive even though it is an acronum? I’m personally not offended, but different strokes, different folks. Additionally…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Maybe the right intention was there, but how that intention was wrapped was not the right way to present it? Let me know…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thank you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tanner<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> NFBA-Phoenix [mailto:nfba-phoenix-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Megan Homrighausen via NFBA-Phoenix<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 24, 2017 9:31 PM<br><b>To:</b> NFB of Arizona Phoenix Chapter List<br><b>Cc:</b> Megan Homrighausen<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFBA-Phoenix] Important. Please Join Me<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_48198"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Tanner,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_48197"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_47291"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Yeah, I agree. We probably should not be bashing our president on a public and national list surv that belongs to the National Federation Of The Blind, especially right before going to Washington Seminar where we are trying to get legislation done.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_47495"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_47512"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Also, this posting is actually really not along the lines of what the National Federation of the blind is trying to promote.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_47702"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_47672"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>I was new once too, and believe me, I'm just starting to grow out of going off on people and it was a hard lesson to learn.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_47612"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_47613"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Using profanities is probably not a good idea. You have prominent people on your list including national representatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_47732"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_47733"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>When I was new to the federation one of my mentors gave me some really great advice. Every day you should try to take at least 15 minutes and read a Kernel story, braille monitor article, or a speech. Learn all you can about the Federation. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_48009"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_48010"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>We promote love and togetherness and that is what you need to continue to do. We can't promote or build anything if we are going to start promoting hate towards the people we need.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_47265"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Sincerely, <br><br>Megan Homrighausen <br><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485316589473_47293">East Valley Chapter President<br>National Federation Of The Blind Of Arizona</b> <br>480-510-6196<o:p></o:p></span></p><div id="yiv8851084231yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461649445555_3130"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>National Federation Of The Blind Principles<br><br>1.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> I</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>t is respectable to be blind. It’s okay to be blind. Being blind is something that we need not feel troubled or embarrassed about, concerned about or emotionally exhausted over. It’s okay to be blind.<br>2.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> T</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>he real problem of blindness is not the absence of vision but is the social misconceptions and stereotypes that exist about blindness. It is not the physical absence of eye sight but it is what society has come to believe about our blindness. We reject the misconceptions that society has and we accept that the physical absence of our sight is not the big problem.<br>3.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>With proper training and opportunity the average blind person can do the average job in the average place of work.<br>4.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Blindness is simply one of many human characteristics, like being tall or being short, being big or small, being bright or average. Blindness is simply one of many<br>characteristics.<br>5.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Blindness can be reduced to the level of an inconvenience or physical nuisance. <br>6.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>We believe in the effectiveness of alternative non visual techniques.<br>7.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>If we want equal rights we need to accept equal responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>On Monday, January 23, 2017 8:33 PM, Tanner Gers via NFBA-Phoenix <<a href="mailto:nfba-phoenix@nfbnet.org">nfba-phoenix@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div id=yiv1204035676><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Hey Federationists<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Do you know what’s going on with Trump and the “leaders” he is appointing to his cabinet?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Such as appointing the head of Exxon Mobile (oil company), to head up the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>WTF?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>If that’s not weird enough, you should consider his appointment of Betsy Devos to the Secretary of Education. She doesn’t understand the law, she doesn’t have disabled students in her thought process, or lack there of, and there’s now a petition to prevent her from being confirmed as Secretary of Education.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Would you join me and over 7,000 individuals, and counting who have signed this petition to prevent a billionaire from destroying the foundation for blind individuals getting an education and achieving gainful employment?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Do it right here…<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="https://www.change.org/p/united-states-senate-do-not-confirm-betsy-devos-as-secretary-of-education?utm_source=action_alert_sign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=702644&alert_id=DZJRyWADLh_TjUAyMS9Je7E%2Fwq4XEQWks3%2BIQeEhp4DvjvZDX9YX24%3D" target="_blank">https://www.change.org/p/united-states-senate-do-not-confirm-betsy-devos-as-secretary-of-education?utm_source=action_alert_sign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=702644&alert_id=DZJRyWADLh_TjUAyMS9Je7E%2Fwq4XEQWks3%2BIQeEhp4DvjvZDX9YX24%3D</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Tanner<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>2<sup>nd</sup> VP of the Phoenix chapter of the National Federation of the Blind<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br>_______________________________________________<br>NFBA-Phoenix mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NFBA-Phoenix@nfbnet.org">NFBA-Phoenix@nfbnet.org</a><br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfba-phoenix_nfbnet.org" target="_blank">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfba-phoenix_nfbnet.org</a><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBA-Phoenix:<br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfba-phoenix_nfbnet.org/megan.homrighausen%40yahoo.com" target="_blank">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfba-phoenix_nfbnet.org/megan.homrighausen%40yahoo.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>