[Nfbc-info] Discrimination in Oakland

[Aziza]

Perhaps I am just speaking form a personal point of view, but, I think for 
the sake of all interested and perspective youth in the NFB, I'd ask you to 
keep your personal views personal. The facts are facts, they do not need 
further embellishments to make them seem worse than they are. Let the facts 
speak for them self, and leave it at that. Yes, people have been unseemly, 
but not everyone in the ACB has done so. I personally refuse to hold a small 
group of people's actions against an entire organization. If things have 
happened in the past, leave them there. It is time to move on and stop 
dwelling on the problems made by others. I say we stop allowing issues from 
the past dictate what we do, or say. The youth has a right to want to know 
what happened without all the extra defiance and anger infused with the 
information they are given. And, if the only way to get a clear 
understanding of the history is to read a book in order to avoid all the 
excess hostility, I am very disappointed in the blind community in general, 
we should be able to talk about things.
Aziza