[Nfbf-l] clarification

Sat Mar 24 04:25:24 UTC 2012

I agree Tara. Let's get back to the business of Changing what it Means to be 
Blind. Congratulations on your citizenship. Awesome!

Sherri
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tara Prakash" <taraprakash at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] clarification

>I appreciate that and have been trying to kill the thread in the interest 
>of the list rules. And after a nice doze of abuses from Kirk, I find myself 
>enriched, as far as vocabulary is concerned. Talking about making 
>assumptions about people that are patently untrue, I would like to clarify 
>for the list that I am a citizen of this country so going to use the 
>suitcase right here. This land is my land ... So, hopefully I and Kirk, 
>along with the rest of NFB family,  will continue to fight together on 
>blindness related issues. I apologize for the wrong judgment I made.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 7:33 PM
> Subject: [Nfbf-l] clarification
>
>
>> Tara,
>>
>> While I have agreed with much of what you have said, I must assure you 
>> that I have known Kirk Harmon for a long time and he is definitely not a 
>> racist! I think we need to be very careful about flaming and name-calling 
>> on this list. The message to which Kirk first responded wasn't even from 
>> me, but rather on the FCB list. Messages crossed both lists, but unless 
>> you are on the FCB list, you missed his message. I have not finished 
>> reading this thread yet, but I would hope we can all step back and 
>> refrain from name-calling and making assumptions about people that are 
>> patently untrue.
>>
>> Sherri
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tara Prakash" <taraprakash at gmail.com>
>> To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 4:56 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Stand your ground and s2188
>>
>>
>>> It's again not a relevant email but if I must reply, here we go. After 
>>> your email to Sheri, I was trying to avoid  responding to your emails. 
>>> When you questioned the media in the context of the teenager murder 
>>> case, you revealed too much of your racist side. It was a good attempt 
>>> to hide behind the curtains of ignorance, ego, human nature, and your 
>>> service to the nation, in subsequent emails but then one can't hide 
>>> one's biases for too long.
>>> As a senior member of NFB you are expected to stay on topic more than 
>>> anyone else. You should have addressed the ADA and rehabilitation act 
>>> side of my email, you chose the wrong side, having to do with tea party.
>>> As about the other side of the pulpit, the other side of the tea party, 
>>> I can't just avoid it at this time. It's okay to tax millionaires more 
>>> than others so that blind children of America can be educated. We need 
>>> people to pay taxes so that people keep getting their social security 
>>> checks. I don't claim social security but I support it at any cost, no 
>>> matter what tea party says. Since we at NFB advocate for government 
>>> intervention and tea party is against it, the NFB and tea party are on 
>>> completely divergent course. This is how I see the issue. And, This is 
>>> why I am opposed to tea party's vision, or lack of it.
>>> Hopefully next time you write, it is something relevant to the blind and 
>>> not about your political biases. Or a small talk with me.
>>> I hope this thread should be discontinued now.
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Kirk" <kvharmon54 at gmail.com>
>>> To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 4:01 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Stand your ground and s2188
>>>
>>>
>>>> Tara, you mean like you were doing late last  nightt from the other 
>>>> side of
>>>> the pulpit?
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Tara Prakash" <taraprakash at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 2:47 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Stand your ground and s2188
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You have too much of tea party hangover to be engaged in a meaningful
>>>> conversation. Rehabilitation act, Americans with disabilities Act, and 
>>>> other
>>>> acts that give us equal right to work may all be wrong and misguided. 
>>>> Go
>>>> ahead and have them repealed. Only if we could stop sermonizing on the 
>>>> list.
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Jody W. Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
>>>> To: "'NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List'" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 10:24 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Stand your ground and s2188
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Tara,
>>>>>
>>>>> No one blind or sighted have a 'right' to employment or anything else 
>>>>> in
>>>>> our
>>>>> society.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have a right to 'life liberty and the pursuit of happiness' but we 
>>>>> have
>>>>> to work to get it, not sit back and expect others to give it to us as 
>>>>> a
>>>>> 'right'.
>>>>>
>>>>> JODY
>>>>>
>>>>>
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