Gallaudet University will be hosting a special event at the Swindells Auditorium this Thursday, September 07, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM where Richard Morin, a renowned former Washington Post reporter who has done extensive investigations into race in America, will present the results of his work on how discrimination, based on skin color, is affecting the degree of support racial groups are receiving during and after Hurricane Katrina. He wrote on June 9, 2006 "The Color of Disaster Assistance."
Yesterday, a discussion topic was on "avdism" (purposely misspelled) and how such blatant practices were seen during and after the hurricane that struck New Orleans last year. I like to see the list of examples of such blantant practices. Nevermind the fact that there were many instances of people, hearing and deaf, who went out of their way to help the many displaced deaf and hard of hearing hurricane survivors as evident in the Deaf Survivors blog. The Deaf Survivors blog also blogged many instances of how technology continues to improve and help people in times of emergencies. Of course, we still have to face the ugliness of how deaf and hard of hearing people were treated. Sometimes, incredulously so, even a few Deaf people laughed at some of the plight of Deaf, deaf or hard of hearing people or purposely disinformed people with a fake list of dead Deaf people (and here) killed during hurricane Katrina. Truely sick people, including some deaf people out there.
Now, I'm curious. Did the use of the a-wordism discussion yesterday mentioned any positive stories or examples of people going out of their way to help deaf and hard of hearing hurricane survivors? Or did they play the "avdism" rant to the hilt instead? Who went to see the "avdism" discussion yesterday?
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