Yes, It’s a Peaceful Protest at Gallaudet!
Yes, There's No Police Brutality in HMB!

No known protest is peaceful! Someone gets upset about it. Someone hates it. Someone gets angry about it. Someone gets afraid by it. Gandhi’s non-violent claim of satyagraha (holding on to truth) had its own violent ending: Gandhi was assassinated in January 1948. About 20 years later, Gandhi’s follower, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who used a non-violent method for conflict resolution, was assassinated in April 1968. Fast forwarded to 1988, Gallaudet University staged a non-violent protest that demanded a Deaf university president. Yes, there were several students who were violently assaulted by both campus and DC police forces. Today, Gallaudet University students protested the selection of JKF peacefully but they were shoved and sprayed on violently in HMB. Protest and violence do go hand in hand.

For two years, 1984-1986, I worked in the Visitors Center at Gallaudet University. It was a big part of the Department of Public Relations. I understood how PR works. I couldn’t express any better than Max Clifford who asserted that "Lies are a big part of PR - I have always admitted that." I could vividly remember being trained to tell white lies.

In 1984, for example, School of Education Dean Gilbert Delgado, a CODA, was demoted to classroom assignments which upset not only campus community but many, many people across the nation and around the world. Professor Delgado was a highly respected individual whose ASL was as native as could be. I was instructed to either dodge questions about him or tell white lies that responsibilities were removed from him so the graduate students could benefit from his wisdom. For two years, I was mostly cooperative with Gallaudet University’s PR, telling white lies.

Although the protest about flawed presidential search at Gallaudet University today provides extraordinary and irrefutable evidence that the powerful university administration uses PR to smash any rationale of grievance. Why does Gallaudet University PR lie about such small things? Is there something Gallaudet University PR is trying to cover up for JKF? Gallaudet University PR is probably sitting right now and reading DeafRead so it could hurry and have the ongoing lies change. It makes us wonder if Gallaudet University PR lies about this, it lies about just anything. Why is it so careless with the facts that we the Deaf are not dumb?

If Gallaudet University PR is going to lie to the community, it will make it an unverifiable and believable. You will understand why when you make friends with JKF. I will make it simple: Gallaudet University PR lied because it could not close the deal. So, instead of covering up, it told us JKF is “not deaf enough” and “there was no police brutality in HMB.”