http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/10/16/our-thoughts-prayers-are-with-gallaudet/ a journey towards building world's first fully integrated town Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:42:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/10/16/our-thoughts-prayers-are-with-gallaudet/#comment-96 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:55:13 +0000 http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/10/16/our-thoughts-prayers-are-with-gallaudet/#comment-96 i enjoyed your blog. but i have to disagree with one thing. gallaudet has been deeply divided for a long time, and this is the first time i've ever seen people come together out of their love for gallaudet. in fact, we are more unified than i've ever seen the past 18 years. it's like after DPN, we went in a coma.... as if we had every ounce of hope sucked out of us...not only that, we became extremely apathetic about the horrors at gallaudet, a lot of "i'm sorry it happened to you, but i doubt it'll happen to me or that it'll ever happen again"... i'm just thrilled we're all finally doing something about the oppression and all the isms here at gallaudet, it's just VERY sad that a few particular people are not listening, which is only making gallaudet's wound more deeper and severe. only if they listened, then we'd be on our way to a better gallaudet. it's almost like someone has to be run over and killed first then the city will pay for speed bumps. all this could have been avoided if gallaudet's leaders had the hindsight to listen to us in the first place. i enjoyed your blog. but i have to disagree with one thing. gallaudet has been deeply divided for a long time, and this is the first time i’ve ever seen people come together out of their love for gallaudet. in fact, we are more unified than i’ve ever seen the past 18 years. it’s like after DPN, we went in a coma…. as if we had every ounce of hope sucked out of us…not only that, we became extremely apathetic about the horrors at gallaudet, a lot of “i’m sorry it happened to you, but i doubt it’ll happen to me or that it’ll ever happen again”…
i’m just thrilled we’re all finally doing something about the oppression and all the isms here at gallaudet, it’s just VERY sad that a few particular people are not listening, which is only making gallaudet’s wound more deeper and severe. only if they listened, then we’d be on our way to a better gallaudet. it’s almost like someone has to be run over and killed first then the city will pay for speed bumps. all this could have been avoided if gallaudet’s leaders had the hindsight to listen to us in the first place.

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