As her trophies pile up, Lindo starts bragging to people, and Waverly feels that her mom has no right to do this when she is the one doing all the winnings. ... Chong is deaf so she becomes lazy and never bothers to correct herself when she makes mistakes. ...
I, for a long time was ashamed of my grandfather's speaking, but not because he had broken English but because he is deaf. ... Because of his hearing disability he is unable to form certain words and annunciate so he is often mocked and taken is unserious by people. ... And every time he spoke people would get this shell shocked l! ... I saw the way he was treated by others, the looks people gave him behind his back and the way he was mocked every time he opened his mouth. What these people did not know was the knowledge this man possessed. ...
His people were expected to be uneducated. ... People won't take you seriously either if you are not literate. ... Some people will take advantage of the fact that some people aren't highly literate. ... In Malcolm X's essay "Learning to Read" he wrote that "my homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America" (pg.253 para. 37). ... A person could lose everything they thought they knew about the world and people when they are ed...
