[nfb-talk] FW: Blind people deserve a libraryexperiencereadingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!

[Alan Wheeler]

Not only that, if not for the NFB, airline travel would be near impossible 
for us.  People really need to read the NFB history instead of out and out 
bashing us without knowing their facts.






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie Ainsworth" <ibejammin1965 at hotmail.com>
To: <william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net>; "NFB Talk Mailing List" 
<nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] FW: Blind people deserve a 
libraryexperiencereadingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!


> The other thing we should remember is that NFB fought for Social Security
> benefits.  We're not the bad guys people perceive us to be.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wm. Ritchhart" <william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net>
> To: <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 10:05 AM
> Subject: [nfb-talk] FW: Blind people deserve a library
> experiencereadingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!
>
>
> This reply seems to not have made it to the list.  So I resend it.
>
> William
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wm. Ritchhart [mailto:william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 2:28 AM
> To: 'Tom Mills'
> Subject: RE: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a library experience
> readingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!
>
> What is wrong with the management of NFB Newsline?  Anybody who is blind
> and wishes can receive the papers.
>
> You have no legitimate complaint on how the NFB uses the specific NFB
> information channels.  They are no different than me starting my own
> newspaper and printing just what I and my sponsors wish.
>
>
> As for NFB members being resistant to change... I think you are
> confusing groups.
>
> *  NFB forms as first organized group of blind people to promote the
> security, equality and opportunity for the nations blind. (1940)
> *  NFB fights to insure that the blind receive a basic Social Security
> benefit.  So they do not have to be beggars in the streets of our land.
> (1940 - to the present, when needed.)
> *  NFB assists blind workers escape from sheltered workshops and battles
> for the right of blind people to have an ordinary job in an ordinary
> work place, making an ordinary living.  (1940 to today.)
> *  NFB causes the legislatures of our nation to pass White Cane Laws
> that protect your right to travel on foot, independently without being
> charged with the crime of "Contributory Negligence if some automobile
> driver hits you.  (1940's to the present.)
> *  NFB leaders start running one of the worst rehabilitation agencies in
> Iowa in the 1960's.  In one decade, the Iowa Commission for the blind
> goes from being one of the worst to being one of the best.
> *  NFB wins you the right to purchase insurance.  Before NFB's fight,
> you could be denied because you are blind.  (1950's - 1960's)
> *  NFB begins and continues to fight for literacy for the blind children
> of America, because with the move to mainstreaming, literacy rates among
> blind children plummeted.  (Really takes off in the 1970's and continues
> today.)
> *  NFB funds the research to create the first reading machine. (1970's.
> May have started earlier.)  The technology that NFB funded is adopted by
> the sighted public in the late 1980's and causes the cost of the reading
> machines to drop so drastically that reading machines become affordable
> for most.
> *  NFB fights for your right to get on to an airplane and fly wherever
> you wish to go.  They even fight for your right to sit in any seat on
> that plane that you can afford to purchase. (1970's - 1980's)  NFB won
> the first part and will continue to fight for the second.
> *NFB creates it's own rehabilitation centers, based on it's positive
> philosophy of blindness;  because the traditional state ran agencies
> have such low expectations in the abilities of the blind that most blind
> people cannot succeed.  (1980's?)
> *  NFB develops NFB Newsline and Americas Job line. (1990's)  NFB
> Newsline has grown to provide more news papers to more blind people at a
> lower cost than any radio reading service could ever do with live
> people.  Americas Job line helps both sighted and blind Americans find
> jobs.
>
> Above is but a small list of the change that NFB members have wrought.
> Some of my dates may be a bit off.  But the changes made are fact, even
> if you are not willing or able to acknowledge them.  I could probably
> add lots more.  I think for any person to claim that NFB members are
> against change ignores the irrefutable facts of history.  You cannot be
> an NFB member and not be for change.  Changing the lives of the nations
> blind for the better is what the NFB is all about.  It is why NFB
> exists.
>
> William
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Mills [mailto:tmills79 at bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 1:46 AM
> To: william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net; NFB Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a library experience
> readingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!
>
> The trouble with most members of the federation is a complete always
> stubborn resistance to suggestions for change.  Every one on this list
> knows
> that I have questioned the fairness and management of the NFB News Line
> news
> paper Service.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wm. Ritchhart" <william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "'NFB Talk Mailing List'" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 12:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a library experience
> readingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!
>
>
>> Did I miss something?  Considering that the only thing I have seen
> about
>> NFB Newsline recently was a post from the ACB leadership list
>> encouraging the ACB membership to try to stop the Federal funding for
>> NFB Newsline.
>>
>> The post made claims that any knowledgeable person would recognize as
>> untrue.  In the normal ACB fashion, the post demonstrated that if NFB
> is
>> creating something, the members of the ACB in general will be against
>> it.
>>
>> One last thing.  I have a question for you Tom.  Why do you bother
> with
>> us NFB folks?  I personally wouldn't waste my time with people whom I
>> thought were so evil and always wrong.  It just seems that you could
>> find a better use of your time doing something other than making angry
>> post to an email list made up mostly of people who have beliefs that
> are
>> totally different from your own.
>>
>>
>>
>> William
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> On Behalf Of Tom Mills
>> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 1:15 AM
>> To: 4alabama at nfbnet.org
>> Cc: nfblaw at nfbnet.org; alabama at acb.org; acb-l at acb.org;
>> nfb-talk at nfbnet.org; acb-chat at acb.org
>> Subject: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a library experience reading
>> thenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!
>>
>> I too wonder where the blind community is when they turn their backs
> on
>> decency and respect for an unbiased library experience while reading
> the
>>
>> Alabama NFB News Line Service. The Federation is more interested in
>> promoting its blind advocacy program; like filing frivolous law suits
>> mostly
>> for the sake of publicity and all the while knowing that most
> government
>>
>> agencies and big business concerns will quietly settle crappy law
> suits
>> in
>> the legal settlement mill. Remember I am talking about the National
>> Federation of the Blind! The NFB News Line should never be used to
>> promote
>> NFB's advocacy positions and federation policies. Also, the Alabama
>> chapter
>> of the National Federation of the Blind should not be permitted to use
>> the
>> NFB News Line Service to advance the reputation of Mister J. Michael
>> Jones,
>> the Alabama affiliates state NFB president.  NFB President Doctor Marc
>> Maurer has said that the NFB News Line Service has "A Special
>> relationship
>> with the news paper industry publishers participating on News Line."
> Let
>> me
>> tell you something all you girls and guys, that frightens me!  I
> believe
>>
>> that the NFB News Line Service should be held above any and all
> politics
>> for
>> the sake of the blind community and most of all to provide blind news
>> paper
>> readers an honest library experience.
>>
>>
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