Letters to the Editor
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Dear Joan Walsh,
I am so sorry to read about this. This is a tragedy, not only for the Terrell Rogers family, but for cause for which he worked and for your daughter's school. I hope the killer is soon caught and brought to justice. Violence up close changes everyone it touches. I also hope that the safety of the students and their families at school events will be assured. Do keep us updated.
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Do you want to know my reaction?
To this post?
I burst into tears of frustration that you AGAIN post VIDEO with NO CAPTIONS for your deaf readers.
Congrats, Joan. You made me cry after a really fucking awful day.
Bravo!!!
Aren't you cutting edge super-tech heroes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You froze out the deafies. Aren't you clever with your "new media"?
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. I am SO FRUSTRATED that after asking for captioning or transcripts on BROADSHEET and your column, we - the Deaf and hard of hearing - all 11-14,000,000 of us - have been again told to GO FUCK OURSELVES by Salon.
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Where have you been?
I am sincerely sorry for the shooting of the father of a star player on your daughter's high school basketball team. It should be a national story.
In addition, please tell us your views about the Clinton's craziness over the last several days.
How can you have been so passionate about the HRC pity party in New Hampshire and not have a single comment about - where do I start? - Gloria Steinem, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Charlie Rangel,Bobcat Johnson, and Richard Cohen? An all-star attack posse that has made Karl Rove and Lee Atwater look like the Little Sisters of the Poor?
Please fast forward in your imagination to a convention nominating HRC, and walk us through how the democratic base will be energized because she is our choice rather than Obama, how independents will flock to us in the general election because she is our choice rather than Obama, and how the republicans will be demoralized because Senator Clinton is our choice rather than Obama.
Give me a woman or man (black or white) who is the best candidate, and let the symbolism of breaking through barriers handle itself.
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We have no idea on reasons for killing of Terell Rogers!!!
Can we wait until the body is cold before those in the press start speculating?????
BTW many births occured today in SF hopsitals the day was not all bad on MLK's birthday>>>>
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People don't become "galvanized"
because they have no idea where to start. I live in a violent city, as well, and I confess to apathy and despair. I sure as hell can't stomp my pretty little foot and refuse to take it anymore, and the cops are apparently as impotent as I am. Addressing poverty and hopelessness in the inner city would be a start -- but that's, um, kind of a huge task, y'know?
Violence is a cancer in our cities. Or maybe it's a symptom of the cancer that is legacy poverty. Which is a symptom of the cancer of racism. The original sin America may never overcome.
Joan, please accept my condolences.
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Salon's alleged unfairness to deaf people
I imagine I'm hardly alone in having a computer connection (I'm in the boonies) that doesn't allow me to watch these video items. However, I figure I get everything I need from the print. (Does Salon provide spoken versions for blind people?)
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Deaf People
You were actually spared that awful annoying music bedded down under Joan's commentary. But were you getting as whiplashed as I was by those artsy jump cuts in and out on Joan's face?