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Several years ago, the DBC -- the Deaf Bilingual Coalition
had a strategy or plan of direct confrontation of the A. G. Bell Association's
conferences -- to hold protest rallies at the conferences.
At the time, there was a big controversy about it in the Deaf community --
Some people who had been involved in the planning of DBC resigned
and engaged in some criticism of DBC for their strategy of confrontation with AG Bell.
Who were those people? Jeannette Johnson, AKA "Deaf Pundit",
Elizabeth Gillepsie, AKA "Mishkazena",
and Amy Efron Cohen.
Recently, I've seen several blogs and comments from these three
in which they show that AG Bell does indeed have a plan
to eliminate Deaf people, close schools for the Deaf,
and eventually eliminate Deaf people on Earth altogether.
AGB does have this goal, and they've shown the evidence.
I'm thrilled and happy to see that they are realizing AGB does indeed have this goal and plan.
Back during that uproar, I think I may have
had some harsh words for these three people
because of their criticism of DBC.
After seeing their blogs and comments, I realize once again that they DO care,
about our community and they DO have our community's best interests at heart.
I also realize that it never was the case that they didn't have our community's best interests at heart.
I think they, and we, were sidetracked from focusing on AG Bell
onto DBC instead
by certain people -- bad people, certainly not good people,
who do NOT have our community's best interests at heart.
Those people manipulated us into focusing on DBC instead of
AG Bell. So now, I want to express
most sincere apologies to these three
and any other people I might have hurt back then.
I speak of those who do support our community, language and culture.
I hope that we all can move on
past DBC and focus on AGBell instead.
AGBell is the real enemy.
Not Deaf people.
AG Bell is the real enemy!
AG Bell has, and still wants to deny Deaf people the right to sign language
from birth and throughout their lives.
AG Bell has, and still does, have the goal of closing schools for the Deaf.
AG Bell has, and still does, have the goal of eliminating Deaf people from Earth.
That's the real enemy!
We must focus on the enemy --
Alexander Graham Bell --
the man and the organization that he founded.