Let me tell you a tale as to why it is I do not trust the #NFB anymore. When I was like 22 or 23 or something or so, some time ago, I was by that point pretty aquainted with leadership roles within the disability space. I had by then, been a part of the Disability Advisory Commission for Arlington County in Virginia for quite some time up to that point, and it was a good time. I had done my part to write letters, or at least provide approval to what was being written for us in terms of dealing with issues regarding street crossings, accessible housing, Type A bathrooms, Senior living establishments, and I along with the rest of the board members worked with the people at the Commission on Aging to help them bolster their ranks in supporting them when they needed the help. Suffice it to say, I was the youngest person there and I had already obtained a leadership role for which most people in their lives would never have had especially at my young age. I write this not to brag, but really more to provide context to where this is going. So, some time later, I had received a random call from some people from the Virginia Student devision of the NFB called VABS or the Virginia Association of Blind Students. They were looking for someone new to lead them as the old president was leaving as she had to do some stuff in another state or whatever, to be completely honest, I couldn't have cared less why it was she was leaving. The point is, they needed someone new to lead the organization. I guess, they had been tipped offthat I had been doing stuff way beyond the student devision for years, and so they asked me to come on and become their new president. I of course, was thrilled to do so, as I had so many ideas as to how to help fundraise for the organization, and I even had connections galore that I could count on to help me to build the organization to what it was and still is, a small, toothless organization in to something quite large, very much powerful, and ultimately, I would have, with my vision for the future, lead them in to a golden age. I am not just stating this as my own opinion either, I definitely had the backing involved and I was more than ready to make calls and get people on board so that we could start right away in transforming VABS in to something huge. As soon as I got off the phone, I spoke with my dad and others, and I started preparing an outline for what my plans were going to look like at the time, as I was focused on trying to build out a generalized plan for how it was I would be working to build VABS in to a large and powerful group. Then... the phone call came, not even like 3 days later I had been pulled in to a meeting. I thought that we were going to be moving forward with this, its not like anyone was deposing me in the slightest, as at the time, it seemed up to that point, that they needed someone desperately and I was the one that they had called and needed to have as that replacement, but I guess it wasn't the case because 3 days later they called me in and this is what they said. "Well, we want you to be president of the organization, but first, we want you to climb the ladder, and we've picked someone else to be our candidate for president." Okay fine, I completely understood that I wasn't going to be picked as their potential candidate, but the thing is, when they first invited me in to take the position, I was more than ready and was already gathering my contacts together to start building out this vision, because there was, at least up to that point, no deposition in the slightest that I knew of or was made aware of in the slightest. Come to find out, during the time that I had been planning out my vision for Vabs, the actual President of the NFB of Virginia had gotten involved in the Student Devision business where, I might add, he had no business being involved and had started tapping another person to potentially become the president of the organization, when I was literally invited to come in and take over the role out of desperation and because I had the skillset involved and could easily start with the creation of my plans, so as soon as I found out, I just said, "Sorry guys, we had a deal, but clearly, your word is only as good as the trash on the ground, and so I take no fault with this, but I am not going to get involved in an organization that plays games instead of gets things done." and I left. Suffice it to say, I never will and have not even to this day, trusted anything people from the NFB say, do, or how they act, because their word is just as equal to the trash on the ground that they spew on a daily basis. I'm not even angry to this day that I didn't get the job, I was more angry at the politics behind it, the backstabbing nature of it all, as I have always prided myself on being an honorable person who keeps to his word, so having been a part of this sort of politics as I was and seeing it on display as I did firsthand, made my decision easy. I move on, did other things, took another term in DAC, and completely cut myself off from the NFB, and to this day, I simply don't trust a word anyone from the NFB says, because their words are steeped in the blood of the left over knives they leave in other peoples' backs.

Absolutely agreed, the #NFB is not for all blind people. The NFB is only for those blind people who they need who they will later toss away like garbage when they aren't useful to the organization anymore. I was once quite loyal to the NFB, but no longer am I so anymore, because I realized that my time with them was done when my own usefullness ran out.