The deaf had created culture, and Identity, and all was well with the deaf world. It later came to pass, that in the country known as Italy, in a place called Mil-An, an evil meeting was held, where hearing scholars and learned scribes, assembled and determined deaf language was against the will of God, and was to be cast out of deaf people. Speech became the law, and gloom, Isolation, despondency, and injustice descended in equal and cruel measures, upon the deaf community.
In time it came to pass, benevolent and charitable men, saw the plight of deaf people, and were much anguished, and deeply saddened of their neglect of the deaf, and were determined to form charities, almhouses and societies dedicated to righting these wrongs.
The reluctant populace took to the messages of deprivation and cruelty, and some were shamed and appalled, and righteously agreed deaf people should take their place in society, supported by their charitable donation, and guidances. The deaf were at first happy to be getting their recognition, and many laws were passed in their favour, but some began to feel aggrieved that the state and institutional systems had simply been replaced by charitable ones, and messages of equality and rights were being lost in the pursuit and propogation of applied and supportive systems, to which no deaf people had any say.
"Verily", they said unto mainsteam, "this is not how we see ourselves, or see our advances to righftul and fair equality.." Benevelonce was much in anger at their ungratefulness. "Why bitest thou, the hand that feeds and nurtures you ?" they asked the deaf, "But for our help, you would not be as accepted as you now are... access to many things would still be closed to you.. why art thou so ungrateful for our help..." and made of many meetings, further excluding the deaf, to decide the future of their benevolence. And it came to pass charity made decision to remove deaf from positions of equal status, and to disallow deaf people senior rights to determine their own self worth..
Deaf people again felt the pain, felt exclusion, saw sign language removed from view, and were scorned for their determination to gather and sign for their own purpose. They began to see benevolence and charity for what it was, "Our directions must now be ever outward..." they declared, "No more will benevolence masquerading as empathy, be used and abused toward us all, we will declare a war, a war of peaceful rights, and equalities unfettered by the cruel manacles of obligatory support... and abusages of help messages."
And it further came to pass, deaf abandoned the support of charity. Benevelonce and Charity cut the ties between themselves and the deaf to make money as providers... for their own gains sake. The message is obvious to all of us deaf thus assembled, "Nothing that cometh to us, can be done, or has value without us... else all is a falsehood. beware of charitable Trjoan Horses, or the righteous humbug bearing gifts... for they must line their own pockets not at our expense" So the message is ?
If it quacks it is not a duck at all, just a chicken with an serious identity crisis.
