Klarinet Archive - Posting 000977.txt from 2003/06

From: "Christy Erickson" <perickso@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Handedness from Cindy
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:27:07 -0400

Cindy is having trouble posting to the list and asked me to copy and =
paste
her e-mail to send. Here it is:

Dear Christy, can you do me a favor??? Since I have trouble with =
replying
the list, can you put this on for me------it's addressed to "Bill. Dear
Bill, I read your comment on the klarinet list about declaring =
"left-handed"
people as "handicapped." I don't see where you think that you're "So
Superior" to us "Southpaws". Second, you sure as hell, don't know sh*t =
about
being handicapped. I will explain for the benefit of all. I was born in =
1962
and at that handicapped people in my state(Virginia) were and still are
treated like sh*t. Back then, most of the people ended up in the
institutions run by the state, or they ended up in places like "the =
colony".
What's the colony you ask??? Well, here in VA,If you were severely
handicapped, mentally retarded, or had epilepsy(which, by the way, I =
just
happen to live with)----you were put there. Between 1924 and 1979, the =
state
of VA "Sterilized OVER" 8,000 people "Because" they were different. In =
fact,
there's a TV program that pops up on the Discovery Channel every once in =
a
while that "highlights" the VA colony-----Maybe YOU SHOULD WATCH IT!!!!! =
It
may "interest" the list to know that the Nazis "got the idea" for the =
death
camps" FROM US". In fact, the man who started the "Eugenics" program =
here in
VA, "WAS INVITED" to Berlin in 1936, to show the Nazis "how to do it." =
This
by the way, is mentioned in the program, I know, because I've not only =
seen
the show, but also Taped it. Just out of curiosity-----if all the people =
on
this list were to get together, and they witnessed someone having an"
epileptic seizure", I wonder how many of them would say that the person =
did
not have a seizure, but was drunk. The Epilepsy Foundation of America =
once
did a survey. One of the questions they asked was "If you were in a =
public
place and you witnessed someone having a seizure, what would be the =
first
thought that came into your head." OVER 85% of Americans asked that
question said, and I quote," That they believed the person having the
seizure was DRUNK" So, gang, UNTIL you have to live with being =
left-handed
or with epilepsy----which I HAVE TO DO for the rest of my life, you
shouldn't talk !!! Cindy P. S. What does this have to do with =
playing
the clarinet???? If you play, I'm sure that you have some sort of
intelligence.

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