From: Doug.Coyle@f6.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Doug Coyle)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: vendor favoritism
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:37:32 GMT
Reply-To: Doug.Coyle@f6.n377.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:377/6 - T.A.B.B., Tampa Fl
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Index Number: 23186

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

I would love to
BB>attend one of their meetings, but no doubt somebody would find an excuse
BB>to eliminate me when they discover that I am a free thinker and willing
BB>to express myself as such without fear of them.

okay, y'all, I just realized my caps lock was on when I wrote this,
so fix your configurations accordingly.  I refuse to rewrite it.

[Note from Bill McGarry -- I flipped caps to lower case and vice versa.]

If you are a free-thinker then you don't have any business joining
an organization like the nfb, and that's fine.  That's your
privilege and you should guard it well if that is what you want to
do.  You as a free-thinker would not be a good team player.  I draw
a distinction between a team player and a sheep.  A sheep doesn't
think for himself or do anything to contribute to his own welfare,
but blindly follows the leader.  A team player may fight, scrap,
kick and scream in the huddle, but when it's time to play football,
the quarterback calls the signals.  I just finished reading that
article which was referred to earlier in the echo which fat mouthed
Dr.  Jernigan.  It reminded me of other articles I read in a
different context.

I used to belong to a Christian ministry which had a president who
was a strong charismatic leader.  I attended their college, went
through their leadership training program and participated in their
programs for about 12 years.  I was very loyal to the president of
the ministry not because he demanded it but because he earned it.
Later on in his life he began to demand it, but that didn't bother
me because I still was willing to play on the team. After he died,
the organization began to take some turns which I did not like, and
then a great upheaval started similar to the split between the acb
and nfb civil war.  Some people were kicked out of the
organizaqtion and others of us left.I was among those who left,
simply because I was no longer willing to play on the team.  Even
though I disagree with this organizations positions I will not bad
mouth them because they have a right to do whatever they want. Dr.
Jernigan may be a tyrant to demands loyalty from his followers in
the opinion of the disgruntled, but I believe he has a right as
quarterback to expect his people to respond when he calls the
signals.
If the internal politics of the federation do not allow for
individual expression then that is something they will have to work
out.

I just got my federation membership card today, and I joined the
federation as opposed to acb because I personally think that "go
along to get along" politics doesn't work.  That's just me.  For
some others they may like the more mild approach.  I think there is
room for both organizations out there, as well as room for
free-thinkers like yourself and team players like me, and yes, some
sheep.  This backbiting is getting a bit boring.

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