| | Dear Senator McCain, many of us Deaf people would like to know what are you doing. We all remember too well the time you spent as a political figure head at the Gallaudet University's Board of Trustees. You obviously did not care much to learn about Deaf people and did not make effort to understand our culture. You call yourself a maverick, but others call this kind of behavior in a different name: reckless abandon.
Senator, how could you choose a running mate who is so reckless in her speeches that she shocks and hurts millions of Americans? I am not blaming her. Your own party is blaming her for being reckless, unwise and egotistic. I am asking you: how could you find her the best candidate for vice president? Do you share her feature characters of being reckless, unwise and egotistic? Are you impressed by her arrogance and apparent abuse of power?
Senator, I also ask you about those years among us: How could you choose a candidate for president of Gallaudet University for your support? How could you choose the Provost as your favorite who shocked and hurt so many at Kendall Green by her recklessness, unwiseness and egotism? Did you share her feature characters? Were you impressed by her arrogance and apparent abuse of power?
Have you heard about the abysmal government report about Gallaudet published in February 2006 that was earned by the Provost? http://www.xanga.com/testing_the_truth/500190113/part-report-untangling-the-web-of-lies.html. Did you think it was okay? She definitely wanted to be the next president.
http://www.xanga.com/testing_the_truth/527055996/joke-time.html. But was she prepared? Did not you know about the evil practices that were employed against Gallaudet protestors? http://www.xanga.com/testing_the_truth/530183886/refutation-of-an-evil-strategy.html. Still you just stood by your choice of an obviously arrogant and apparently untalented administrator? Why did you so, Senator? Did you not care about the feelings of Deaf people at all?
We did not want to have colonization. http://www.xanga.com/testing_the_truth/536147679/out-of-colonization-a-new-framework-for-the-protest.html. We did not want to have academic disaster. http://www.xanga.com/testing_the_truth/537016589/jane-fernandes-walking-academic-disaster.html. Did you pay attention at all? Many of us trusted you as a reliable member of the United States Senate, a champion of human rights. An exemplary veteran. Why did you abandon our hopes in you, Senator?
What did you think, when the Provost came out with her futuristic utopia of "creating a new order of Deaf people"? How could you accept her blatant view of the Deaf that must be "enhanced" or manufactured by medical professionals so that it would become a "new order", a better race of people? http://www.xanga.com/testing_the_truth/538787880/fernandes-program-futuristic-utopia.html. How could you go along with her in these kinds of barbaric ideologies? Did you agree with her? Did you support her pact with the medical-industrial lobby to allow them to experiment? Use the unsuspecting Deaf who came to Gallaudet University with trust and openness? To a place that was believed to be a safe environment for the Deaf? O my heavens! http://http://www.xanga.com/testing_the_truth/539868823/a-demagogue-in-service-of-the-medical-industrial-lobby.html. Did you understand the implications of allowing the medical industry to crush and eliminate Deaf culture? Did not you think of betrayal and abuse? Why did not you break away from these sordid ideas? Did you find in it a profitable business opportunity for the few including yourself?
We took inspiration from American history. http://www.xanga.com/testing_the_truth/541065373/will-ye-submit-your-necks.html. Did not you hear us? We warned about impending accrediation troubles. http://www.xanga.com/testing_the_truth/541390392/accreditation-bomb-planted-by-fernandes-and-jordan.html, and http://www.xanga.com/testing_the_truth/554002312/outgoing-act-gambling-with-accreditation.html. Did not you pay attention? You left us begging. But we never gave up hope. http://www.xanga.com/testing_the_truth/542326867/a-sunday-song.html. And eventually, when we won, http://www.xanga.com/testing_the_truth/545701017/how-could-we-win.html, we had to learn that you were not on our side. You were on the opposite side all along. Why did you miss your chance so bad, Senator, why did you miss to know us better and perhaps, only perhaps, develop some human feeling towards us? Why?
Dear Senator McCain, your troubles are not coming from us. We don't play a big role in this coming election. You may be sure that if you lose, it won't be because of us. It will be because of yourself. You can only blame yourself. We just hope that when you retire very soon, you won't have any rejection in your heart towards us. Please, come back to us. Visit Gallaudet again. Come, and express your regret for your own failures as a respected Board member. You missed your chance big time with us. Please, come back and try again. Try to fix your heart. Try to apologize for not wanting to know us better. Try again to yield to your human feelings towards us. If you do, I promise, we would forgive soon, and appreciate your change of heart. We would cherish your coming back to us. One day, before you go, you may even experience love in your heart, a love you have never felt. A love towards us, a love and appreciation towards our culture. Would you do this for us, dear Senator? Would you come back to us as a changed man? We'll be looking forward to hear from you.
I send my best wishes to you and your family for your well-deserved retirement years,
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