[stylist] question

[James Canaday M.A. N6YR]

we've said someone is "passing"  as  for sighted.  using the black 
term for their fellows who are light skinned and "pass" as white.

name for the discrimination, paternalism, condescention.
jc

Jim Canaday M.A.
Lawrence, KS

At 06:03 PM 3/22/2009, you wrote:
>John,
>         To my knowledge, we don't have a term for a blind person who refuses
>to accept their blindness or have anything to do with the blindness
>community. As to the belief that blind people are inferior to sighted, just
>plain old discrimination; we don't have an ism word for that either. Someone
>correct me if I'm wrong.
>Angela
>
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>Yo, blinks:
>
>Just read my first issue of the Monitor.  The Ved Mahta piece reminded me to
>ask you all two questions.  I am wondering if you have a term that you use
>for two concepts I am sure that very much exists.
>
>The definition of the first one would have a picture of Ved Mahta himself or
>someone else more notorious in your community for this type.  The text
>definition would be something like "a blind person who is in denial or
>refuses to embrace blind identity and in fact takes pains to avoid blind
>people or being associated with the blind community."  The black community
>has its own version, called Uncle Tom or Oreo--dark on the outside but white
>inside.  The Deaf community has this type, too, called hearing-headed, with
>a special sign that implies the person is hearing in his head, obsessed with
>trying to be hearing.  The most notorious hearing-head is probably Heather
>Weatherstone, who was Miss America but is a graduate of the much-hated
>Clarke oralist school and doesn't sign or anything.
>
>So what do you call a blind person like that?
>
>Now, I'd like to learn what you call something else.  Blacks have to deal
>with racism, which is the belief that blacks are a lower class.  Women often
>encounter sexism, which is the belief in the inferiority of one gender under
>another.  Young people and old people sometimes suffer from ageism, which is
>discrimination against someone because of that person's age.  The signing
>community has to work against audism.  Our most villainous audist figure is
>Alexander Graham Bell, and he is the subject of many works of Deaf art,
>taking the role of a monster, a dread ghost, and in a famous poem he is the
>Pilate who crucifixes Laurent Clerc, the most beloved Deaf historical
>figure, the first Deaf teacher in America.
>
>So what do you call bigotry targeting the blind?
>
>Thanks!
>
>John
>
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