How can the deaf blogger put down something to say and to share with the audience?

The anger, furious, disappointed, even shocked, upsetting, flared by widespread people around the world to hear and to see the tragedy of George Floyd. He unexpectedly died in hand by the rookies in the USA several weeks ago and another man who was sleeping in the car near the takeaway place.

The result of his death was a routine police call for a run-of-the-mill crime — someone passing a bogus $20 bill at a deli and possibility links to his experience with drugs and crimes. Who knows the background reason?

Is the lack of humanity? Is this result of racism?

Here is the quote from George’s brother – Philonise Floyd.

“I want everybody to be peaceful right now, but people are torn and hurt because they’re tired of seeing black men die, constantly, over and over again,” he said.

“And I understand, and I see why a lot of people doing a lot of different things around the world. I don’t want them to lash out like this,” he added. “But I can’t stop people right now, because they have pain. They have the same pain I feel.”

“I want everything to be peaceful, but I can’t make everybody be peaceful.”

 

Everyone is different – Deaf, Blind, Wheelchair users, Māori, Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islander peoples, and many other people around the world.

Does anyone know that there were many segregated schools for Black Deaf students throughout the world?

There were seventeen states plus the District of Columbia that had segregated schools for Black Deaf children from 1869 to 1978, according to the book – The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL.

Here is another quote – “If you believe that people have no history worth mentioning, it’s easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending.” William Loren Katz.

How can Deaf people communicate with other people? Does anyone know or familiar with their first language – sign language? The sign language has been around many thousand years ago, where strangers from three or four different countries, never met before or knew what kind of languages such as Chinese, Persian (endonym Farsi), Hebrew, or German. People in the past, they would make body gesture in order to communicate and to understand what they want or do in the activity.

In New Zealand, we have the most significant minority of people who came here to live, to work, to escape from wars, or a fresh start of new life. Māori people live here before the European arrived from the UK, Scotland, Tasmania, America, and Spain. Māori people speak their native language – te Reo Māori, unfortunately, English people speak English and refuse to speak te Reo Māori.

In 1972, three of these groups, Auckland-based Ngā Tamatoa (The Young Warriors), Victoria University’s Te Reo Māori Society, and Te Huinga Rangatahi (the New Zealand Māori Students’ Association) petitioned Parliament to promote the language. A Māori language day introduced that year became Māori language week in 1975. Three years later, New Zealand’s first officially bilingual school opened at Rūātoki in the Urewera. The first Māori-owned Māori-language radio station (Te Reo-o-Pōneke) went on air in 1983. history of the Maaori language

In the Deaf community, there is no te Reo Māori; the only way many Turi (Deaf) Māori can communicate by using the Māori concepts in sign language. Here is a good article along with a video clip from the NewsHub – How Turi Maaori are being heard

What about Aboriginal people in Australia? The Aboriginal people have been there as well. Aboriginal Australians live over fifty thousand years in Australia outside Africa, and there are approximately two hundred fifty distinct language groups spread around Australia. One of the oldest languages is almost extinct -Wiradjuri in the 20th century. Only a small handful of people can speak this tribal language today.

Exploring Wiradjuri People and cultures

In Australia, there has been extensive oppression of Aboriginal peoples, including people/children with disabilities for many years. Here is one of the articles,s including video. Aboriginal people

We, D/deaf people, along with people/children with disabilities, are being oppressed, unequal even discriminated over many years. People see us as a problem to their businesses, or in the society in fear of losing the profitability. Capitalism reduces everything to profit – effectively, capitalism says disabled people are surplus to requirements. This result is especially true in periods of economic crisis – provision for disabled people is always one of the first things to be hit. Because it is a society that denies us.

What more to say or to write about oppression, hatred, racism, discrimination to people with disabilities, D/deaf people around the world? It is time for society to stop and look at us and try to learn from us. We, people who are D/deaf, and people with disabilities, WANTS TO BE EQUAL in society.