Allah: “They threw Oreos at Michael Steele for being inauthentically black. What do you throw at someone who’s inauthentically deaf? Headphones?”:
The newly chosen president for the nation’s only liberal arts college for the deaf is drawing protests from faculty and students, some of whom question whether she is “deaf enough†to lead their school.
Last week, Jane K. Fernandes was named to succeed I. King Jordan as president of Gallaudet University. She isn’t scheduled to take over until January, but already the school’s faculty has called a meeting for Monday afternoon to consider for a no-confidence vote against her and students have carried out a weeklong protest…
She was born deaf but grew up speaking, and she didn’t learn American Sign Language until she was 23.
23? Really? Christ. What a bitch.
Jordan became the first deaf president to lead the school in 1988. He got the job after student protesters marched to the Capitol demanding a “Deaf President Now†after a hearing president was named.
Well, in a way you can see their point: after all, you’d expect an acting school to be headed up by someone with acting experience, so it’s not too presumptuous for the deaf to want a deaf president to head up their school—though deafness, unlike acting, is not a skill.
However, the desire to have a deaf president does indeed speak to an issue of identity politics—the idea being that only a person like us (in the specific way that gives our group its identity, be it skin color, gender, or some other generally physical attribute) is fit to join and / or shepherd us.
And in this case, Allah is right to point out that even deafness alone is not enough here for students and faculty to accept Ms Fernandez—that the poison essentialism that underlies identity politics (and allows for the continuation of social segregation, albeit of a different kind than that of, say, Jim Crow) has stepped up the conditions for “authenticity” to one of degree: Fernandez, much like those who are considered “race traitors” for refusing to let that single attribute define them (a gesture which usually translates politically into breaking from the master narrative of group grievance), is considered a traitor to her condition for having grown up trying to fight it, the argument goes, by attempting to “pass”—that is, by speaking, and by not embracing sign language until later in life.
An analogue here might be to the fight over African-American authenticity within certain radical segments of the Black identity movement, where light skinned (or high yellow) Blacks are considered by some to be “less black” than those with darker skin.
But this example of circling the wagons and demonizing the “less” deaf or, in other instances, the deaf who see their deafness not as a point of pride, but as a disability that can be corrected, is all too frequent—and is part of the disturbing trend of groupthink that I’ve argued pollutes the core individualism of the classically liberal social paradigm.
In terms of deafness, I’ve written on this before (over 4 years ago, so the majority of you won’t have read it), so I’ll just repost it here. In the earlier case, the subject was cochlear implants—very controversial among deaf groups committed to identity politics.
From March 2002, “The Sound of Silence”:
Cathy Young has a fantastic piece in Reason about the militant fringe of the deaf “culture,” in which she takes particular aim at those in the deaf community who combat cochlear implants on the grounds that the technology is a form of cultural genocide [or, to use my earlier analogy, a form of “treason” against one’s identity group]:
Perhaps it’s not surprising that some deaf people would try to come to terms with their condition by insisting that they are so happy being the way they are that they would never want to be any other way. (In Sound and Fury, Peter Artinian rhapsodizes about how ‘peaceful’ it is to live in a world of total silence.) What is shocking is that in recent years this defense mechanism frequently has been treated as a serious argument. Sound and Fury, which approaches the controversy over cochlear implants and the preservation of ‘deaf culture’ as a debate in which each side has valid points and merits balanced treatment, is only the latest example.
Thus, Northeastern University psychologist Harlan Lane, a prominent (hearing) champion of ‘deaf culture’ who asserts that to define deaf people as hearing-impaired is like defining women as ‘non-men,’ has received a MacArthur fellowship and rave reviews for his work. At the end of a 1994 essay in The New York Times Magazine, Andrew Solomon made this astounding statement: ‘Perhaps, like the search for a cure to gayness, the search for a cure for the deaf will be dropped by respectable institutions—which would be both a bad and a good thing.’
When such ideas gain currency among intellectual elites, one appreciates the value of the sturdy common sense so treasured by populists—the kind that would react to all this rhetoric with an incredulous, ‘This is nuts!’ Deaf activists dismiss such an attitude as the arrogance of the hearing, who cannot imagine that there could be anything positive about being deaf. But quite a few deaf people see these activists as an arrogant minority trying to impose its will on everyone else. It is worth noting that only about a quarter of the estimated 2 million profoundly deaf people in the United States use sign language.
Nevertheless, the fringe ideas of Deaf Pride have had consequences. At many schools for the deaf in recent decades, ASL has been dogmatically treated as the only acceptable form of communication, and children with some hearing have received little if any training in auditory and speaking skills. Deaf schools that promote ‘oralism’ have been targeted for protests and picketing. Heather White-stone, the deaf woman who was crowned Miss America in 1995, was denounced by some militants because she speaks—making her, in their eyes, unsuitable to represent the deaf.
More self-serving fringe-group nonsense, if you ask me. There’re plenty of social analogues to this kind of tripe, too: cults of obesity, bestiality, dwarf coloring, etc.—but you can bet your sweetpurple dwarf’s ass that social services would be quick to remove from the home any child being forced by its parents to fingerpaint a little person, say—or to sex up a schnauser, or choke down a 5lb-bag of Doritos each and every day [note: I’m not a big fan of social services, but in cases such as these, well…—ed]. To deny a child hearing—in essence, to ensure a handicap because of the refusal to acknowledge it as such (“I’m handi-capable!” the cry goes) is, frankly, despicable. It’s the cult of deafness’s appeal to Christian Science—only without the God, and with the left-leaning intelligensia’s insipid support…
I don’t know if it’s troubling or commendable that my position hasn’t changed much over the last four years—though some of the terminology I’ve been using to describe that position has become more consistent (the idea being that by repeatedly highlighting these instances of essentialist thought within a readily identifiable social movement such as identity politicking, I’m able to show just how widespread are the underlying assumptions animating the movement).
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update: In the comments, Gallaudet student and pw reader concerned bison notes that some of the media spin here may be off base:
Guys –
Long time Protein Wisdom reader/admirer, first time commenter.
I’m a student at Gallaudet University, so I’m hoping to bring you guys a different perspective of what’s happening on the ground. The culturally deaf thing? While a minority of the deaf community and the protesters really care about that, it’s not part of the demands. The two demands are: that the presidential search process be re-opened, and the input of students, faculty, staff and alumni be heavily considered or used, and that there be no reprisals against the protesters.
I know some do have the culturally deaf issue as a complaint, and I think it’s a poor one. I adhere to classical liberal values, and I would prefer that the best qualified person be picked for the presidency regardless of color, disability, religion, and so on. And while many of the protesters are of a liberal or Democratic mentality, which I’m not of, I also do know they’re focusing on the two demands reiterated above. Fringe elements of the protest are the ones pushing the culturally deaf issue.
The reason there is a protest against the selection of Fernandes is because she’s a poor academic administrator, and because the Board of Trustees did not listen to the protesters – the undergraduates, graduates, and faculty, in separate polls, voted overwhelmingly against her before the selection. In fact, it is now known that the Presidential Search Committee recommended someone else to the Board of Trustees.
Since she came aboard as provost, the school’s retention rate has dropped steadily every year. There is an exodus of smart students and good teachers leaving, fed up with the poor education and high school mentality at the University. In response to various situations and problems, she tends to set up committees, which never really do anything, and does not take action herself. Good teachers have not been granted tenure simply because they do not agree with some or all of her policies. As for the curriculum, it feels like we’re in high school all over again. It is fairly easy to get a 4.0, and it is a reason why more and more potential students tend to stay away from the university and go to challenging mainstream universities.
For example, and I will admit this is a black eye for Gallaudet, the football team had an undefeated season last year, for the first time ever. Because the administration did not know of or fully realize the significance of the achievement, the team decided to take it into their hands. In the middle of the night, fire alarms were set at the dorms and people were told to go to the football field. The objective was to tear down the goalposts – a tradition in football. The DPS police officers and the CREs (heads of dorms) tried to contain the situation, but failed. They lost control, and both goalposts were taken down. It became a major issue on the campus for weeks, and the provost argued with the students about what had happened. The students were naturally contrite about it, but also upset with the provost, who refused to recognize that failure to communicate had been a contributing factor to the incident. And it’s true, the students did have a valid point – the administration certainly showed it when they admitted they didn’t know about the season until after the fact.
What was running through my mind was that what if that had been a terror attack? And the people under her administration had just basically showed us they wouldn’t be able to handle such a crisis, given how they had handled the goalpost incident poorly.
It was, I think, the final straw that broke the camel’s back. Now we’re at this point in history, and the university’s pretty much united in tossing her out. While I don’t agree with the identity politics of the issue, I do believe she won’t make a good president.
Anyway: I apologize for going long and wasting some of your bandwidth, Jeff, but these are hectic days over here. I just wanted to say that what the media is making it out to be isn’t entirely true. And I didn’t want everybody, including me, tarred with the same brush regarding identity politics.
I hope this helped you all. Keep up the good work, Jeff.
(Apologies if my real e-mail address isn’t included; I would like to remain anomynous.)
The protesters’ website is here.
While you can see stuff about diversity and all on there, the demands are clearly placed in there.
Thanks to bison for the insight.
This is the blogosphere at its best. Whereas it’s at its worst everytime Atrios kisses Janeane Garofalo’s ass with just a little bit of tongue.
Ummm, no.
I’d expect an acting school—or any other school—to be headed up[ by someone experienced in academic administration. The teaching staff should have experience relevant to the topic.
A minor quibble, I concede.
Well….this certainly puts a new slant on the “chickenhawk” meme. I now see where the leftards are coming from. With this logic, a President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense and all Congresscritters who vote for military action must have been a member of the military in order for such an action to have any validity.
Gosh….I have been such a dunce about this “civilian control” of the military.
Any attempt to learn or use the verbal language of the non-impaired at the expense of the visual language developed specifically for the impaired, is an admission that the impairment implies some degree of inferiority. A parallel philosophy to those who insist on retaining the ignorance they were born with rather than obtain the education of the opressors.
If it’s not an impairment in any way , then I guess us hearing folks have a super-human attribute. Can I get a cape?
I remember reading a few years ago that the deaf community was pissed that some parents were choosing to put those cochlear implants in their YOUNG children (they have the greatest chance for success the younger the person.) The argument was that the children would not be able to choose for them self whether or not they wanted to be deaf.
I’m going to eat another powdered donut just to make sure I’m authentically fat.
Must I have been a savage (bailiff! Whack…!) in order to become an anthropologist?
Dude, you’re married and you don’t think selective deafness is not a skill?
Appropos of absolutely nothing, but this bit about demanding a deaf president reminds me of an anecdotal story why the heir to the throne of England is titled “Prince of Wales”: In response to a nativist Welsh riot, an old English king promised a rowdy mob that they’d have a monarch who didn’t speak a word of English—and promptly installed his newborn son.
“Can you hear me now?”
– As the population grows, more and more people will look for any way possible to be “different” stand out from the crowd. Pretty predictable. Besides most of my deaf friends are really weird in some ways, sweet, decent, but weird. I sign. and two things I’ve noticed over the years is they spend a lot of time reassuring each other that they’re still “there”, and if one has an idea, they really tend to flock to any sort of notion, even more than other “groups” I have personal experience with. My guess is that deafness has other unseen effects on a persons “world-sense” and self image than just the inability to hear.
How dare all those people who are born paralyzed use wheelchairs! They are traitors. They have sold their soul for the right to pretend that they are “ambulists”.
The above quote is the Penrose Triangle of logic. I keep trying to make it work, and yet, it just doesn’t old up. Substitute ‘deaf’ in the passage for any other descriptive term: black, Muslim, Aryan.
You’ve got to admit though, there’s something hilarious about a deaf master race.
– Shank, for other than the obvious reasons it would never work. Liberals would immediately denounce such a group as “being unwilling to listen to anyone elses opinions, so therefore obviously bigots.”….
In fact, the story goes they wanted a prince born in Wales who spoke no English. Young Edward Jr. fit the bill perfectly.
There is, unfortunately, some suspicion the story is more legend than truth—it’s one of those myths that deserves to be true.
Most of the U.S. really has no idea about what deaf culture really is or what it’s about. It’s a culture of isolation and worst yet it’s a culture that not only encourages underachievement but PUSHES it and celebrates it. Therefore it’s a culture for LOSERS.
Harsh words? Don’t believe me? Well I’ve got close to 15 years experience with it and here is a small part of what I’ve learned.
First Deaf Culture exists BECAUSE of Sign Language. All cultures are based on their language. People NEED language in order to think (at least beyond what is right in front of them at that moment). Their first language becomes their thought language and therefore their most important language. Now when child who is deaf learns ASL (American Sign Language, which is NOT English in signs but a separate language all together with different grammar etc.), as their first language, they think in ASL. Where’s the problem with that? None, IF they lived in a country those society/culture was based on ASL, but they live in the U.S. whose society/culture is based on English (remember all cultures are based on language). Therefore the child is now ISOLATED to ONLY functioning in the deaf society/culture, and will struggle and grossly underachieve in the society/culture of the U.S. where they MUST function in order to have success.
Deaf Culture says they aren’t hearing impaired but “visually enhancedâ€Â. They claim they are not disabled, but then go on to sue and sue using the ADA.
Deaf Culture says that hearing parents “aren’t qualified†to make decisions about their deaf children because they can’t know that “being deaf is betterâ€Â. They go so far as try to pass laws that would require deaf children to be raised with sign language instead of the alternatives (such as a Cued Speech that can make spoken English a child’s first /thought language). Some go even farther and think that deaf child should be taken away from their hearing parents because they no longer belong in the parents world but instead belong in the deaf world.
Hearing parents electing to give their deaf child MANY more options and doors to open, by giving them the Cochlear Implant infuriates the deaf community. This is partially understandable since most deaf children are born to hearing parents and if they start losing more and more and more of their “new blood†to Cochlear Implants and it’s potential to let a child not only comprehend some speech (sometimes to a great extent) but even worst yet to SPEAK, then their culture is not only a loser culture but it’s a DYING culture then too. By the way Deaf militants, Deaf Culture WILL die. I may not happen in our lifetime but it WILL die (because of the fact that most deaf children are born to hearing parents they will embrace more and more each advancement towards a CURE). Deaf militants tried to pass a law to outlaw the Cochlear Implants for children (to give them more time to indoctrinate the child into the deaf culture not the parents culture).
Deaf parents “cheer†when they find out that their child is deaf and are saddened if their child is born hearing. Imagine being so happy about all the doors that just got SLAMMED in your child’s face. So many opportunities that they will never have.
If a pill was invented today that would CURE every disability, you would wiped out completely every disability in the world, except deafness. A good portion of them would refuse to take it.
They refuse to acknowledge the fact that human beings are meant to be HEARING beings. They are meant to have 5 senses and one of them was meant to be hearing. If that hearing is not functioning FULLY then something is WRONG. And if possible SHOULD be fixed. Near sighted people don’t insist that someone else drive them around because God made them near sighted. They get glasses or contacts if that will CORRECT the vision they were MEANT to have.
The average 18 year old deaf person reads and writes at a 4th grade level, BECAUSE of sign language. So the next time Hollywood puts the cute token deaf person into a movie/TV show with sign language, remember there’s a LOT more to what’s going on than what you’re getting out of it.
I could go on and on and on.
I posted the above, on a Yahoo discussion on this subject yesterday and on another post a deaf woman posted this
“You speak highly of Cued Speech and Cochlear Implant. I really don’t have any opinion on this issue as some deaf people do. However, I do feel that an innocent child should be given a chance to grow up some and analyze himself to discover who he is, and if he decides that he wants to have a cochlear implant put on him then so be it! How would you feel if your parents decided to do it when you are 5 years old, and then you grew up to be a different person than you were at 5 years old only to find out that cochlear implant CAN’T be removed? You might have some issues with your parents about that. That’s the only opinion I have about it. With hearing aid, you can always stop using it but you can’t with cochlear implant as it is a permanent scar. Sad!”
This was my reply to that.
What’s “Sad” is this thought pattern. Sorry baby but making these tough decisions FOR your CHILD is just what being a PARENT is ALL about. Beyond your childish/liberal nonsense of letting the CHILD decide, your thought about waiting is WRONG and misinformed too. You CAN’T wait. As I’ve been saying all along LANGUAGE is what allows us to THINK. It’s that important, and it’s the FIRST language that becomes our THOUGHT language, and therefore it’s the MOST important. A child’s first language SHOULD be the one of the society that they will be required to function in (and ideally the parents langauge too). IF a child’s thought language is english, especially SPOKEN english, then they will be better at reading/writing and functioning in an english society.
With that FACT established, the other FACT is that there is a window of opportunity where the brain acquires language easily and then it gets harder and harder. 1 to 3 are the best years then it slowly tapers off till about 7 then it’s much harder after that. WAITING is the WORST thing you can do. And the deaf militants KNOW that which is WHY they try to get you to wait as long as possible. The longer you wait the less likely you are to have the Implant. Also the longer you wait the less effective it’s use will be. Your brain has to LEARN to use it. Again the brain at a young age is doing this MUCH easier and the younger you get it the better the results.
Parents make TOUGH decisions about THEIR child’s health and upbringing all the time. Sometimes they make the right choice and sometimes not. BUT that’s what being a parent is all about. Good parents EDUCATE themselves and therefore make WISE informed choices using LOGIC not fuzzy feel good crap like, “you’ll be changing who your child is”. If my child is near sighted I’m going to put glasses on them, if they can’t hear I’m going to hearing aids, cochlear implants and anything else that might improve their hearing and therefore open more doors for them.
And by the way, it’s a very SMALL scar and they can take the outside part off any time they want to be deaf.
Guys –
Long time Protein Wisdom reader/admirer, first time commenter.
I’m a student at Gallaudet University, so I’m hoping to bring you guys a different perspective of what’s happening on the ground. The culturally deaf thing? While a minority of the deaf community and the protesters really care about that, it’s not part of the demands. The two demands are: that the presidential search process be re-opened, and the input of students, faculty, staff and alumni be heavily considered or used, and that there be no reprisals against the protesters.
I know some do have the culturally deaf issue as a complaint, and I think it’s a poor one. I adhere to classical liberal values, and I would prefer that the best qualified person be picked for the presidency regardless of color, disability, religion, and so on. And while many of the protesters are of a liberal or Democratic mentality, which I’m not of, I also do know they’re focusing on the two demands reiterated above. Fringe elements of the protest are the ones pushing the culturally deaf issue.
The reason there is a protest against the selection of Fernandes is because she’s a poor academic administrator, and because the Board of Trustees did not listen to the protesters – the undergraduates, graduates, and faculty, in separate polls, voted overwhelmingly against her before the selection. In fact, it is now known that the Presidential Search Committee recommended someone else to the Board of Trustees.
Since she came aboard as provost, the school’s retention rate has dropped steadily every year. There is an exodus of smart students and good teachers leaving, fed up with the poor education and high school mentality at the University. In response to various situations and problems, she tends to set up committees, which never really do anything, and does not take action herself. Good teachers have not been granted tenure simply because they do not agree with some or all of her policies. As for the curriculum, it feels like we’re in high school all over again. It is fairly easy to get a 4.0, and it is a reason why more and more potential students tend to stay away from the university and go to challenging mainstream universities.
For example, and I will admit this is a black eye for Gallaudet, the football team had an undefeated season last year, for the first time ever. Because the administration did not know of or fully realize the significance of the achievement, the team decided to take it into their hands. In the middle of the night, fire alarms were set at the dorms and people were told to go to the football field. The objective was to tear down the goalposts – a tradition in football. The DPS police officers and the CREs (heads of dorms) tried to contain the situation, but failed. They lost control, and both goalposts were taken down. It became a major issue on the campus for weeks, and the provost argued with the students about what had happened. The students were naturally contrite about it, but also upset with the provost, who refused to recognize that failure to communicate had been a contributing factor to the incident. And it’s true, the students did have a valid point – the administration certainly showed it when they admitted they didn’t know about the season until after the fact.
What was running through my mind was that what if that had been a terror attack? And the people under her administration had just basically showed us they wouldn’t be able to handle such a crisis, given how they had handled the goalpost incident poorly.
It was, I think, the final straw that broke the camel’s back. Now we’re at this point in history, and the university’s pretty much united in tossing her out. While I don’t agree with the identity politics of the issue, I do believe she won’t make a good president.
Anyway: I apologize for going long and wasting some of your bandwidth, Jeff, but these are hectic days over here. I just wanted to say that what the media is making it out to be isn’t entirely true. And I didn’t want everybody, including me, tarred with the same brush regarding identity politics.
I hope this helped you all. Keep up the good work, Jeff.
(Apologies if my real e-mail address isn’t included; I would like to remain anomynous.)
The protesters’ website is <a href=”http://www.gallyfssa.org” target=”_blank”>.
While you can see stuff about diversity and all on there, the demands are clearly placed in there.
Thanks, Bison.
I guess I’ll have to stop work on Madame Bovary.
Shit.
Thanks, Bison. I’ve added your comment in an update.
I’ll second what The Geetah said. I’ve seen “deaf culture” up close my whole life. (A close family member of mine is deaf). Identity politics among deaf people makes anything you’d find in the university look positively tame.
You’re welcome, Jeff.
Have a nice day, all!
Being a person who was born with severe visual impairments, I am at a loss for this “deaf culture” thing. I have severe myopia, astigmatism, and nystagmus. I’ve had tremendous visual correction over my lifetime (glasses custom made by Pentax, extra wide contacts to help hold my eyes still), so when I see a person go down the street with a white cane and/or dog, it truely is a “There but for the grace of God…..” moment.
I can’t imagine there being some sort of attachment to birth defects/congential disabilites. I’d give a lot to see clearly.
I think you do already.
As a fluent signer and someone with more than one deaf family member (including one of my children), I can speak with a certain amount of authority on this subject.
First of all, Harlan Lane is is as much a \’(hearing) champion of ‘deaf culture’\’ as Juan Cole is a champion of the Iraqi or Iranian people. Lane is a publicity hound who espouses the views of those you\’ve correctly identified as a fringe element of the so-called \’deaf culture\’. I\’m sure his being awarded a MacArthur Fellowship at Northeastern must have set off some kind of alarm in your head, no?
The media, of course, loves to sensationalize, and this Deaf Lunatic Fringe has always been a big seller for them: 20/20 interviewing prospective deaf parents who prefer that their children be born deaf, Sundance Channel airing \’Sound of Fury\’, in which Artinian romanticizes the silence most deaf people wish they could break, \’fringe\’ deaf parents insisting their children be \’allowed to choose\’ whether or not they want Cochlear implants, and so on.
So, many people have come to believe that this is how \’deaf people\’ think. If the only exposure you had to the parents of military man and women killed in battle was what you read and saw from Cindy Sheehan, you\’d probably have a pretty skewed perception of that demographic as well.
Wack jobs like \’The Geetah\’, whose rants I\’ve read elsewhere, present the agenda of these \’Deaf Culture\’ radicals as the norm, when in fact these people\’s views are rejected by the vast majority of deaf individuals.
His assinine claim that ASL is \”NOT English in signs but a separate language all together with different grammar etc.\”, proves his ignorance. I\’m sure Big Bang Hunter can attest to the fact that when people sign, they do, in the interest of expediency, drop certain non-essential words such as \’the\’, \’to\’, etc., (although these are still used when writing), and use facial expressions or other methods to provide \’context\’, but ASL is certainly not a \’separate language with different grammar\’.
\’Geetah\’ also says:
\”The average 18 year old deaf person reads and writes at a 4th grade level, BECAUSE of sign language.
The primary reason the average deaf person reads and writes at a lower level than most is that they are not able to sound out words, which makes the process of learning to read and write very difficult. Think about how you were first taught to read.
There are other factors that come into play. Big Bang Hunter\’s description of (many) deaf people as \”really weird in some ways, sweet, decent, but weird.\”, is not far off the mark.
Many deaf kids tend toward being exciteable, maybe even borderline \’hyper\’. Much of this behavior can be attrbited to the \’context\’ aspect of ASL I referred to earlier: The words can, should, and must can all be communicated using the same sign, but the amount of force or seriousness of expression one uses while signing can change the context, thus, deaf children tend to communicate stronger feelings and ideas by being more forceful in their mannerisms. They often find it difficult to try to communicate with most of the people in the world when if are unable to speak, and since they wear their emotions on their sleeves more than most, this shows.
This highly \’emotional\’ method of communication causes some educators to believe that high-strung deaf kids suffer from some kind of \’behavioral disorder\’, in addition to their real disability: deafness. Once this happens, teaching such a child to read and write sometimes ceases to be a priority, and instead \’life skills\’ are emphasized. I\’m sure Concerned Bison has seen this happen.
Don\’t believe the hype. Deaf people like the ones mentioned (or possibly even misrepresented) in these stories are no more the norm for \’deaf culture\’ than The Black Panthers are for \’black culture\’.
So we should say it REALLY loud, we’re deaf and proud?
Really. Link please.
Code word: anyone. As in, doesn’t anyone confirm anything anymore or do we just believe what we want to believe?
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”The two demands are: that the presidential search process be re-opened, and the input of students, faculty, staff and alumni be heavily considered or used, and that there be no reprisals against the protesters.”
The three demands are: that the presidential search process be re-opened, and the input of students, faculty, staff and alumni be heavily considered or used, and that there be no reprisals against the protesters, and that our almost fanatical devotion to the Pope be openly displayed.
The four demands are…
from wikipedia:
Google may love me, but the jury’s not unanimous on this one. Do I think that some Black activist are capable and willing to act like assholes? Yes. But as for thrown oreos? I’m not convinced.