GALLYNET-L message: Thomas Samuels editorial
For the first time in this unfolding saga regarding the Gallaudet president and the desire of the Deaf to intenstify the struggle for our self-determination with destiny, I spoke up. I have been wanting to speak up for a longggg time, but for some bizarre reason, I felt completely mute for the past couple of weeks (actually, months!) I think I suffer from a case of a writer's shut-down as a result of being overwhelmed with too much things I wanted to say. It's starting to come out... I hope. :) Anyway, below is what I sent to the popular Gallynet-L listserv-
Thomas Samuels editorial in the Washington Informer newspaper
I picked up a copy of the Washington Informer newspaper yesterday at Cluck-U on H St. (yes, it's quite addictive!) and flipped through it from back to front, as I usually do newspapers. Lo and behold, on page 16 of the May 11-17 2006 issue, there was a guest editorial by Thomas Samuels titled "Gallaudet Rebuffs Black Presidential Candidate"
After some checking (I only started subscribing to Gallynet very recently), apparently, this article hasn't been circulated at all, nor anyone even mention it, and Thomas Samuels is the President of the National Black Deaf Advocates! I wonder why no one has mentioned it. I then checked washingtoninformer.com and was perplexed to be unable to find the article there, because I wanted to copy/paste it here so you could send it on to everyone else.
I would OCR the article, but alas, I don't have OCR software.. so am attaching an PDF of the editorial if you wanna read it. (link to PDF)
I am cc'ing this email to the publisher and editor of Washington Informer so maybe they could do something about it, ensure that it is posted on the Web, because I find it very puzzling that all the other editorials, letters to the editors, etc would be posted on the Web, but not Mr. Samuels' editorial. Maybe I did overlook it, but the op/ed page on the web lists only 2 out of the 3 columns from page 16 of the the newspaper. I do know that if the sole Black-authored article was excluded from washingtonpost.com, and all the other authors were white, it would smack of racism, however unintended.
It really bothers me that a Black newspaper would slap me in the face, not with some racist comment about white people, but with some form of audism! The hearing African-American community could very well learn a lot from watching the Deaf, black and white (and brown and pink and all other colors, of course), hand in hand, united! We are truly a role model for all the peoples of this world. How sad, only if nearly everyone weren't so blind to that fact. That's the purpose of the Deaf, to make this world a better place. All we have to do is to continue to scream loud enough for allll the deaf(hearing) people of this world to finally OPEN their eyes and learn something about what peace is all about!
I really wish that the BoT picked Glenn Anderson as our next president, with either Ron Stern or Steve Weiner as Provost. That would be the perfect antidote to the poison that is permeating throughout Kendall Green. I always thought that Glenn would be our next President, even though deep in my heart, I wished that Ron Stern would be President. It was very shocking to learn that he was one of the 3 finalists, because I didn't know that he actually applied! And to the exclusion of the person who I thought would be the next Gallaudet president. Why does the *evil system* keep on slapping us all in the face all the time?!
Yes, indeed. Gallaudet is poisonous enough to the point where I have just about given up on the prospect of getting my PhD with Gallaudet in the picture. I have no future at Gallaudet with Jane Fernandes as President of Gallaudet. No way is she going to let the demise of Gallaudet interfere with the destiny of the Deaf.
We can't always automatically think that Gallaudet's president is the leader of the deaf world. Lloyd Johns wasn't the messiah of the Deaf, was he? Or even Merrill? They were merely presidents of Gallaudet, so that doesn't mean Jane Fernandes automatically becomes our Leader of the Deaf World. With a leaderless Gallaudet, I have NO reason to stick around Washington, DC and all its Republicrat Demonic poison flying around. Capitol Hill has infected Gallaudet. I ain't gonna let myself be infected. Dodo?
Last week, I applied for the PhD program in Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu). No kidding. That's where I am headed next. Already, I got three Gallaudetian friends to follow me and start planting the seeds of a new Martha's Vineyard! Ya know, the Hawaii school for the deaf (HCDB) is only minutes from the University of Hawaii. It would be very fitting if we picked up where Jane Fernandes left off, wouldn't it?!
-In Solidarity for a Self-Determined Deaf Destiny,
Jason Lamberton, unemployed and nearly destitute former President's Fellow (one of the living, walking proofs of Jane Fernandes' failures as provost)
Thomas Samuels editorial in the Washington Informer newspaper
I picked up a copy of the Washington Informer newspaper yesterday at Cluck-U on H St. (yes, it's quite addictive!) and flipped through it from back to front, as I usually do newspapers. Lo and behold, on page 16 of the May 11-17 2006 issue, there was a guest editorial by Thomas Samuels titled "Gallaudet Rebuffs Black Presidential Candidate"
After some checking (I only started subscribing to Gallynet very recently), apparently, this article hasn't been circulated at all, nor anyone even mention it, and Thomas Samuels is the President of the National Black Deaf Advocates! I wonder why no one has mentioned it. I then checked washingtoninformer.com and was perplexed to be unable to find the article there, because I wanted to copy/paste it here so you could send it on to everyone else.
I would OCR the article, but alas, I don't have OCR software.. so am attaching an PDF of the editorial if you wanna read it. (link to PDF)
I am cc'ing this email to the publisher and editor of Washington Informer so maybe they could do something about it, ensure that it is posted on the Web, because I find it very puzzling that all the other editorials, letters to the editors, etc would be posted on the Web, but not Mr. Samuels' editorial. Maybe I did overlook it, but the op/ed page on the web lists only 2 out of the 3 columns from page 16 of the the newspaper. I do know that if the sole Black-authored article was excluded from washingtonpost.com, and all the other authors were white, it would smack of racism, however unintended.
It really bothers me that a Black newspaper would slap me in the face, not with some racist comment about white people, but with some form of audism! The hearing African-American community could very well learn a lot from watching the Deaf, black and white (and brown and pink and all other colors, of course), hand in hand, united! We are truly a role model for all the peoples of this world. How sad, only if nearly everyone weren't so blind to that fact. That's the purpose of the Deaf, to make this world a better place. All we have to do is to continue to scream loud enough for allll the deaf(hearing) people of this world to finally OPEN their eyes and learn something about what peace is all about!
I really wish that the BoT picked Glenn Anderson as our next president, with either Ron Stern or Steve Weiner as Provost. That would be the perfect antidote to the poison that is permeating throughout Kendall Green. I always thought that Glenn would be our next President, even though deep in my heart, I wished that Ron Stern would be President. It was very shocking to learn that he was one of the 3 finalists, because I didn't know that he actually applied! And to the exclusion of the person who I thought would be the next Gallaudet president. Why does the *evil system* keep on slapping us all in the face all the time?!
Yes, indeed. Gallaudet is poisonous enough to the point where I have just about given up on the prospect of getting my PhD with Gallaudet in the picture. I have no future at Gallaudet with Jane Fernandes as President of Gallaudet. No way is she going to let the demise of Gallaudet interfere with the destiny of the Deaf.
We can't always automatically think that Gallaudet's president is the leader of the deaf world. Lloyd Johns wasn't the messiah of the Deaf, was he? Or even Merrill? They were merely presidents of Gallaudet, so that doesn't mean Jane Fernandes automatically becomes our Leader of the Deaf World. With a leaderless Gallaudet, I have NO reason to stick around Washington, DC and all its Republicrat Demonic poison flying around. Capitol Hill has infected Gallaudet. I ain't gonna let myself be infected. Dodo?
Last week, I applied for the PhD program in Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu). No kidding. That's where I am headed next. Already, I got three Gallaudetian friends to follow me and start planting the seeds of a new Martha's Vineyard! Ya know, the Hawaii school for the deaf (HCDB) is only minutes from the University of Hawaii. It would be very fitting if we picked up where Jane Fernandes left off, wouldn't it?!
-In Solidarity for a Self-Determined Deaf Destiny,
Jason Lamberton, unemployed and nearly destitute former President's Fellow (one of the living, walking proofs of Jane Fernandes' failures as provost)
2 Comments:
hawaii?!? so cool, jas. hope u get in so i can come n visit! good luck w that. was great seeing you at pourhouse last friday! HUGS
Let's go, Jason. Melinda is hottie!
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