Every St. Patrick's Day surely remind us much of systematic oppression and societial prejudices against deaf people and its use of sign language over decades. http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2009/03/17/irish-americans-racism-whiteness/
Americans in general, have such distorted visions for Deaf Americans and other deaf people around the globe what we are supposed to be all about. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/13915/multicultural_diversity_in_america.html?cat=9
Irish and deaf people keep clinging to their proud legacy and existence. The Brits systematically oppressed the Irish people under its brutal occupation. Deaf people everywhere begun experienced the systematic assaults by hearing and "Uncle Tom" deaf individuals and corporations what they knew better for us. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2084199/irish_immigrants_and_the_discriminations.html?cat=37
Both of us, deaf and Irish people had been reglated to the lower societial postitions and employments over decades.
One major difference between deaf and Irish people nowadays, the Irish people begin to be embraced well by the society, Deaf people still face the identity revision alternatives by hearing occupiers and "Uncle Tom" with the forced installment of cochlear implant surgery on our deaf babies and youngsters.
Irish people were forced off their lands. Deaf people were forced to assimilate much further to please and satisify hearing imperialists and ignorant ones like suppressing the use of sign language for greater language and intellectual development among deaf children.
Deaf people are often treated as total strangers in their own lands since the audist society were preoccupied with the normalization and assimilation of everyone else.
Why can't we simply celebrate the beauty of human diversity which make our lives more interesting and fruitful?
Note: This blogger is not an Irish or have any drop of Irish blood, but always feel soliditary with the Irish people to celebrate the annual St. Patrick's Day. Hopefully for the Irish community to return their soliditary with deaf people everywhere. :)
Happy St. Patrick's Day 2010!
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Re-telling Stories About Bernard Bragg in Ireland
In the celebration of St. Patrick's Day 2010, Deaf actor Bernard Bragg shared many exhilarated stories about his visit to Ireland in the 1970's.
From the NAD's deceased annual publication, Bernard Bragg recalled how he encountered the systematic division of deaf Irish people by hearing imperialists.
Bernard Bragg rode in the car with two deaf Irish hetro couple which he witnessed such an endless disputes between this deaf couple during the regular driving time. Bragg asked that couple why they keep bickering and fighting what was the right use for sign language, blah. The deaf couple were coming from the SAME town where they raised in. Why bicker over the use of
sign language whether they are right or not.
The deaf Irish couple replied "We were from different schools, one deaf school for the boys and another deaf school for the girls. That's how we always fight over the use of sign language what is right or not. "
Very common of many hearing and "Uncle Tom" deaf people resort to the stealth methods of splitting and weakening deaf people's strongholds on their own productive and festive lives like installing the codified system like "Signing Exact English", "Cued Speech" and other things.
Forced cochlear implant surgery upon deaf babies and youngsters without their permission or consent are another latest example of hearing imperialists and "Uncle Tom" deaf individuals, who usually turn our vibrant and culturally rich community into their own mirages and illusions.
Here are numerous excrept from Bernard Bragg autobiography book's "Lessons in Laughter" about his unforgettable visit to Ireland and Irish deaf people (check out page 157-161) -
http://books.google.com/books?id=PrPMTDdlm1AC&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=bernard+bragg+and+ireland+visit&source=bl&ots=LAGh-HRA5D&sig=QKtaC19-cSFBO5i-yoae9S-lT34&hl=en&ei=jvWgS8qLE9OUtgfts93yBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false
ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
From the NAD's deceased annual publication, Bernard Bragg recalled how he encountered the systematic division of deaf Irish people by hearing imperialists.
Bernard Bragg rode in the car with two deaf Irish hetro couple which he witnessed such an endless disputes between this deaf couple during the regular driving time. Bragg asked that couple why they keep bickering and fighting what was the right use for sign language, blah. The deaf couple were coming from the SAME town where they raised in. Why bicker over the use of
sign language whether they are right or not.
The deaf Irish couple replied "We were from different schools, one deaf school for the boys and another deaf school for the girls. That's how we always fight over the use of sign language what is right or not. "
Very common of many hearing and "Uncle Tom" deaf people resort to the stealth methods of splitting and weakening deaf people's strongholds on their own productive and festive lives like installing the codified system like "Signing Exact English", "Cued Speech" and other things.
Forced cochlear implant surgery upon deaf babies and youngsters without their permission or consent are another latest example of hearing imperialists and "Uncle Tom" deaf individuals, who usually turn our vibrant and culturally rich community into their own mirages and illusions.
Here are numerous excrept from Bernard Bragg autobiography book's "Lessons in Laughter" about his unforgettable visit to Ireland and Irish deaf people (check out page 157-161) -
http://books.google.com/books?id=PrPMTDdlm1AC&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=bernard+bragg+and+ireland+visit&source=bl&ots=LAGh-HRA5D&sig=QKtaC19-cSFBO5i-yoae9S-lT34&hl=en&ei=jvWgS8qLE9OUtgfts93yBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false
ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
ARE WE ALL HYPROCRITES???
After reading the AOL daily news feature on the revolutionary device for the visually deprived individuals. I said to myself "Aw, kinda great for someone to regain hir own vision ability with the use of technological marvel". This individual is a war veteran, who lost hir own vision during the battlefield duties. http://www.switched.com/2010/03/16/blind-british-soldier-regains-sight-with-his-tongue/?icid=mainaimdl4link7http%3A%2F%2Fwww.switched.com%2F2010%2F03%2F16%2Fblind-british-soldier-regains-sight-with-his-tongue%2F
Why didn't I object to the technological option for the blind people? That are much difference between forced cochlear implant surgery on deaf babies & youngsters AND optional desire to regain the lost vision and other body functions.
Technology should be not used to impose upon people against their own wills without any individuals' permission/consent. What about the GPS monitored ankle bands on people under the legal system to keep eyes on non-violent criminals? I would be for this kind of technology solution for some good reasons like the cost control purposes and pragmatic solutions which the forced cochlear implant surgery and device do not offer at all.
We must master and control the existence of technology, not let them control us. Forced cochlear implant surgery upon deaf babies and youngsters are all about the issue of medical ethics, identity alternative approaches, long-term health consequences, misguided educational applications without workable and effective methods of producing the well-balanced individual.
The new technological device to regain vision is "removable", not "permanently etched into the human body".
Will the young blind people accept the idea of forced surgery to drill the invasive method and leave the unpleasant sight of monstrous device on their face to remind the society at large what the freak they are? I don't think so!
That's what many deaf people object to the idea of cochlear implant forcibly imposed upon deaf babies and youngsters without embracing the functional and effective use of language for the visually-spatial individuals.
Respect and appreciate the existence of deaf people are the two-way street, not the one-way street by the hearing imperialists to re-define what we ought to be.
Every human beings have the right to control hir own destiny, not by someone else.
ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Why didn't I object to the technological option for the blind people? That are much difference between forced cochlear implant surgery on deaf babies & youngsters AND optional desire to regain the lost vision and other body functions.
Technology should be not used to impose upon people against their own wills without any individuals' permission/consent. What about the GPS monitored ankle bands on people under the legal system to keep eyes on non-violent criminals? I would be for this kind of technology solution for some good reasons like the cost control purposes and pragmatic solutions which the forced cochlear implant surgery and device do not offer at all.
We must master and control the existence of technology, not let them control us. Forced cochlear implant surgery upon deaf babies and youngsters are all about the issue of medical ethics, identity alternative approaches, long-term health consequences, misguided educational applications without workable and effective methods of producing the well-balanced individual.
The new technological device to regain vision is "removable", not "permanently etched into the human body".
Will the young blind people accept the idea of forced surgery to drill the invasive method and leave the unpleasant sight of monstrous device on their face to remind the society at large what the freak they are? I don't think so!
That's what many deaf people object to the idea of cochlear implant forcibly imposed upon deaf babies and youngsters without embracing the functional and effective use of language for the visually-spatial individuals.
Respect and appreciate the existence of deaf people are the two-way street, not the one-way street by the hearing imperialists to re-define what we ought to be.
Every human beings have the right to control hir own destiny, not by someone else.
ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Particular Deaf Person Embrass Our Own Deaf Community Again!
Why this particular deaf person keep embrassed our own deaf community at large with hir own idiotic talks??
That very same deaf individual really do not knew what he ranted and ranted. One reporter asked hir where he will go for http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/rush-limbaugh-says-hell-leave-the-us-if-health-care-reform-is-passed/19389808?icid=mainaimdl1link1http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fnation%2Farticle%2Frush-limbaugh-says-hell-leave-the-us-if-health-care-reform-is-passed%2F19389808
Sure thing about anyone deaf with cochlear implant screw up hir mind process!
Or this individual count as a deaf person or what?
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
That very same deaf individual really do not knew what he ranted and ranted. One reporter asked hir where he will go for http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/rush-limbaugh-says-hell-leave-the-us-if-health-care-reform-is-passed/19389808?icid=mainaimdl1link1http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fnation%2Farticle%2Frush-limbaugh-says-hell-leave-the-us-if-health-care-reform-is-passed%2F19389808
Sure thing about anyone deaf with cochlear implant screw up hir mind process!
Or this individual count as a deaf person or what?
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Monday, March 8, 2010
What will you say to this New York Post cartoon?
The New York Post newspaper recently published the editoral cartoon as a cheap shot or real hilarous at the current governor - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/05/new-york-post-cartoon-has_n_487865.html
How would any of you feel about this similar cartoon taking all the unnecessary swipe at deaf individual and the interpreter of the deaf in that manner?
Governor Patterson of New York will raise such questions whether culturally deaf individuals will be able to lead the government due to the bumbling performance by someone, who are deaf, blind and other kind of societial labels.
Of course, many of us, deaf people hardly consider ourselves to be part of the disability group anyway.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM))
RLMDEAF blog
How would any of you feel about this similar cartoon taking all the unnecessary swipe at deaf individual and the interpreter of the deaf in that manner?
Governor Patterson of New York will raise such questions whether culturally deaf individuals will be able to lead the government due to the bumbling performance by someone, who are deaf, blind and other kind of societial labels.
Of course, many of us, deaf people hardly consider ourselves to be part of the disability group anyway.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM))
RLMDEAF blog
Friday, March 5, 2010
More and more people scrutinize all unncessary surgery
Deaf people are NOT only expressing their outrages and legitimate concerns toward medical surgery.
Other segment of human population DO question the legitimacy and ethical practices of barbaric surgery on teenagers and young kids.
Here is the link - http://www.slate.com/id/2245898/
Keep drumming against the identity alternative design on deaf babies and kids without their consents or permission with forced cochlear implant surgery.
That is NOT about the protection of deaf culture as I have been falsely accused in the mainstream media last month. Medical ethics and language/intellectual development play the major role in my endless opposition against cochlear implant surgery on deaf babies and kids without drawing the natural instincts among visually-oriented youngsters.
Naturalism always will defeat technology anyway.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason
RLMDEAF blog
Other segment of human population DO question the legitimacy and ethical practices of barbaric surgery on teenagers and young kids.
Here is the link - http://www.slate.com/id/2245898/
Keep drumming against the identity alternative design on deaf babies and kids without their consents or permission with forced cochlear implant surgery.
That is NOT about the protection of deaf culture as I have been falsely accused in the mainstream media last month. Medical ethics and language/intellectual development play the major role in my endless opposition against cochlear implant surgery on deaf babies and kids without drawing the natural instincts among visually-oriented youngsters.
Naturalism always will defeat technology anyway.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason
RLMDEAF blog
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Deaf Person's Fifth Avenue (NYC) Apt. With 18 Rooms on Sale!
Who is really the richest deaf person among us? John Yeh seems fall off from the list of richest deaf individuals after the Viable, Inc. scandal. What will happen to Yeh's Potomac house?
One of the richest deaf individual is putting hir own personal possession on the market of the exquisite New York private-owned apartment unit with 18 rooms lately after personal wrath with the Patterson administration for levying highest tax percentages on anyone, who earn more than $500,000 per year.
Guess who? Of course, we never consider the leading radio host as one of us, deaf people. It's
http://gawker.com/5482793/rush-limbaughs-gaudy-fifth-avenue-penthouse-is-now-for-sale/gallery/?skyline=true&s=i
Why not for Rush Limbaugh donate 3/4 of his profit from the sale of his Fifth Avenue apartment unit to the Deafhood Foundation - http://deafhoodfoundation.org/Deafhood/Home.html ?
The newly-created Deafhood Foundation desperately need the immediate millions in American dollars to help this foundation to launch successfully from there.
Please do the letter/email campaign to urge Rush Limbaugh to donate his 3/4 profits from the house sale to the Deafhood Foundation. Here is the contact info for Rush Limbaugh -
Rush Limbaugh's public e-mail address is ElRushbo@eibnet.com. He also has a private e-mail address but it is for 24/7 members only.
Ever please send the copy(c.c.) of letter and email message to the Deafhood Foundation via Rush Limbaugh - danny@deafhoodfoundation.org
What the Deaf Republicans will say about this one? Here is the Deaf Republicans Facebook site -
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=10006291062
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
One of the richest deaf individual is putting hir own personal possession on the market of the exquisite New York private-owned apartment unit with 18 rooms lately after personal wrath with the Patterson administration for levying highest tax percentages on anyone, who earn more than $500,000 per year.
Guess who? Of course, we never consider the leading radio host as one of us, deaf people. It's
http://gawker.com/5482793/rush-limbaughs-gaudy-fifth-avenue-penthouse-is-now-for-sale/gallery/?skyline=true&s=i
Why not for Rush Limbaugh donate 3/4 of his profit from the sale of his Fifth Avenue apartment unit to the Deafhood Foundation - http://deafhoodfoundation.org/Deafhood/Home.html ?
The newly-created Deafhood Foundation desperately need the immediate millions in American dollars to help this foundation to launch successfully from there.
Please do the letter/email campaign to urge Rush Limbaugh to donate his 3/4 profits from the house sale to the Deafhood Foundation. Here is the contact info for Rush Limbaugh -
Rush Limbaugh's public e-mail address is ElRushbo@eibnet.com. He also has a private e-mail address but it is for 24/7 members only.
Ever please send the copy(c.c.) of letter and email message to the Deafhood Foundation via Rush Limbaugh - danny@deafhoodfoundation.org
What the Deaf Republicans will say about this one? Here is the Deaf Republicans Facebook site -
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=10006291062
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
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