[nfb-talk] NFB and ACB

[T. Joseph Carter]

David, you point out that their membership is waning.  The problem is that
ours is as well.  Maybe not as rapidly or as remarkably, but particularly
in Western states (Colorado excepted), we really don't have the kind of
support we once had.

I think your assessment of the reaction younger people have to the ACB
applies also to the NFB.  A lot of people my age and younger just do not
want to get into this big battle over who did what to whom and when.  I
think Corey was expressing precisely that frustration.

Granted that is not the only thing affecting our ability to attract the
younger generations.  We talked about the problem just a few weeks ago
that people today seem to be more interested in what we can do for them
than what they can do with us.

Fewer today are willing to become active, plain and simple.  Neither we
nor the ACB can afford to scare away potential new members by continuing
this feud.  We're modern-day Hatfields and McCoys here, and nobody really
cares about the pig or the hen anymore.


On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:05:11PM -0600, David Andrews wrote:
> The other thing I would say is that the organization is slowly 
> dying.  I wasn't able to make it to NFB convention this year, and 
> since ACB was here, I went over to check it out.  One of the first 
> things you notice, after seeing how small their convention is, is 
> that there are very few young people or kids there.  It is the older 
> persons, the NFB haters, who are there.  They aren't attracting new 
> people in large numbers because younger people don't care what 
> happened between them and us in the past.  Unless they get some new 
> dynamic leadership soon, then they will eventually go away.