1/6 We’re preparing for Shabbat over here, so I want to offer a few thoughts on the article I wrote for Chris Hofstader’s blog before I sign off for 25 hours. #NFB22 This was an incredibly emotional subject for me to tackle in an article, and I expect that for a lot of you, it’s
2/6 hard to read about. It’s also difficult to watch as people, who are rightly furious, go after an organization you truly believe in, and you may be tempted to run interference for that organization because it’s truly done some good things. But part of solving problems as
3/6 difficult as this one is facing all the ugliness head on, unflinchingly holding leaders and offending members accountable, and doing the work to make sure that this stuff never happens again. That works starts with not making excuses when people you have a lot of respect for
4/6 screw up by mishandling things. So if you’ve done that in the past, even 10 minutes ago, I’m going to invite you to stop prioritizing leaders you idolize and your organization’s reputation over people they’ve harmed. I’m going to invite you to prioritize the people harmed
5/6 over even the cause the NFB is fighting for. Because as important as the cause of disability rights is, it absolutely cannot take priority over the emotional and physical safety and well-being of the people fighting in service of that cause. If it does, problems like this
6/6 will never go away and they will continue to fester. And none of us can afford that. Shabbat shalom #NFB22