Dear President-Elect Donald Trump.
I have thought for several hours on whether I should bother to write this or not but I have decided that a few important matters cannot be as easily dismissed so I have decided to write this public letter to you, President-Elect Donald Trump. Before I can begin, I would like to say that you may or may not acknowledge that I am not a fan of you being one of candidates for presidency here the United States and on my conscience I could not simply vote you to become the next President of the United States. I am one of millions who have voted Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States, while you understand that I have the right to vote whomever I feel that the person would be better at presidency than any other candidates including yourself but unfortunately Hillary Clinton could not get enough electoral votes. Though the candidate I voted for may have lost the presidency does not means that I would not accept that you have won the presidency, I humbly accept you to be the next President of the United States and I am looking forward to what you can do for the Americans. The reason I rooted and voted for Hillary Clinton is because I am a Democrat but if I was a Republican then you would have been my choice but I share the interests and ideology more with the Democratic party than I am with Republican party though. Nonetheless I would like to congratulate you on your win for presidency here in the United States, I hope that what you said throughout your campaign that you want the government to be for, of and by the people instead of for the, of and by the business or corporations which is what Republicans are known for in my opinion but I hope that you prove me wrong with that as I am giving you a chance.
We the people are more important than corporations, business and the elitism that you are known for in the pubic eyes. I congratulate that you have a such success in your business but let’s not forget that if it weren’t for the people you would not of have that success.
You may be known for brilliantly operating a business for a several decades in the name of yours, Trump especially in the real estate and hotels but once you have built that business of yours who do you rely on for your business growth over decades? People by renting apartments, rooms and others with their money so your business success are from the people so be sure to thank the people for your business growth from time to time. You could have built a several buildings and if nobody would’ve buys or rents them then you would have easily wasted millions of dollars but that never happened due to the people buying your business. My point here is that in a way you wouldn’t be where you are at if it weren’t for the people whether it be Americans or the foreign along with immigrants that you strongly want to send some of the people back to their countries that buys your business so how irony is that for you? So as your presidency, what you should focus on the most is to make America great again for the people and not for the corporations or business. Surely you can do some for the corporations or business by bringing in some jobs for the people here in the United States but human beings are more important and I am sure that you can agree with that.
Don’t be a Democrat nor be a Republican and you can make the American great again the way that every one of us dream for. Fairness and equality is something that you need to think about. What I am referring to is that by lowering the tax plan for the corporations or business from 35% to 15% isn’t fair comparing to millions of people here in the United States pays the taxes for. It’s the people in that 99% who needs the most help with more than the 1% including yourself unfortunately but that is what I am looking forward to see that you change that mentality that you are with us more than that %1 you are in for several decades.
Let me to summarize who I am a bit to you, I am twenty-nine years old from east part of Kentucky here in Pike County which is considered one of the largest county of all counties in the state of Kentucky (I was born in Williamson, Wv but never lived there, I lived in Pike County, Ky all my life) and I graduated in the year of 2005 with GPA 3.7 along with no tardiness. I am Deaf and a wheelchair-bound, if you prefer me to be more technical than I am hard of hearing, in wheelchair, dwarfism so I am multi-disabled but I don’t look at myself like that as I am culturally Deaf who happens to be a little person and is wheelchair-bound. Yes, that means my native language is American Sign Language which is a language that the United State recognizes and I take pride in that fact that United States recognize so. We have over a million Deaf people here in the United State so imagine how many of us were insulted and offended by you calling Marlee Matlin retard or making fun of the New York Time reporter who happens to have Arthrogryposis which that made you sound as if we are not the people too which we are. Nonetheless I suggest that the next time that you talk about the people with disability, when it comes to the Deaf people I ask that you show some respect and we will show the same as the respect is two ways.
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Now once you take an oath in January 20 to become the 45th President of the United States, there are a few of things that I would like for you to do for all of us Deaf people as the President of the United States.
- Make sure that all Deaf and Hard of Hearing institutes to implement bilingual bicultural (Bi-Bi) education program and work with LEAD-K by replacing EDHI (Early Hearing Detection and Intervention) with LEAD-K to drastically improve the education for Deaf children.
- Make sure that every states Deaf institutes does not get any budget cuts, such as here in the state of Kentucky our Deaf institute is Kentucky School for the Deaf (KSD) and in the state of West Virginia their Deaf institute is West Virginia School for the Deaf (WVDS). Each states have their Deaf institutes, I suggest that you make absolute sure that any of them don’t get any budget cuts and aid them to improve their education by implementing Bi-Bi program education.
- Increase awareness about the Deaf community in the law enforcement by hiring Deaf liaison to work with in police department and such. It does not necessarily means that they have to be a police officer, they can simply work in the office such as forensic or others. What is important is that the police officers gets to socialize and work with in their department which that can help the police officers to know the Deaf needs better so that the police officers can prepare better when they meet Deaf people whether it be pulling over Deaf drivers or any other reasons instead of not being properly educated enough about the Deaf needs to the point that the police may mistake them for “thug” signs or some make-up excuses they can think of. It had happened, perfect example is Daniel Harris which I am sure you have heard about it in the news not too long ago.
- Strengthen American with Disabilities Act (ADA) law. At the moment, American with Disabilities Act is weakened as there are too many loopholes that the corporations and others were able to get away with by discriminating or oppressing Deaf and Hard of Hearing people. You want to make America great again? This is one of many perfect way to make America great is to make sure that every states, every counties and every rural are more Deaf friendly as they are with the people in wheelchair. Ramps to buildings, handicap access for parking and others but same concept for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people. Enforce all news outlet, television, movies and online video streaming such as ESPN, YouTube etc to have closed captions at all the time. I highly recommend you to work with National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD) to make sure that every states in the United States to be more Deaf friendly and to make sure that Deaf have more access to a lot of things that they now don’t have that the other people who can hear does.
- Back to American with Disabilities Act, make sure that the corporations and business cannot discriminate any Deaf or Hard of Hearing people when they apply for a job. Also make sure that the loopholes for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people to get a job is closed, by that loopholes I meant that the human resource and themselves found a way to get away with not hiring Deaf people by telling them some excuses. We Deaf and Hard of Hearing people would have to work as twice or third hard to get a job through interview than any other people who can hear. It is often that on the day when anyone seeks for new employee, puts up a hiring sign so the people comes in to apply for the job and that includes us Deaf community. Once we were interviewed, some of us have as twice or even five times more skills than these people who can hear and they got the job instead of us so that isn’t fair but they gets away with it. That is kind of loopholes that you must take a look into and shut that.
- Make sure that the Deaf institutes and organizations that is for or of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people is to be run by the Deaf people instead of the people who can hear because we would be more suitable than they are to run a such thing as these. Some Deaf institutes have presidents or superintend who is hearing which is conflicted with the institute and organizations itself because we have went through them ourselves so we know better what our own people needs. I highly encourage you to take a look at the example of 1988 Deaf President Now at Gallaudet University.
- Stop Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing from giving false information to the parents of Deaf newborn children. There are many research that have proved that the Deaf newborn child would have more success in life by learning the native language of Deaf people, American Sign Language instead of having them to implement cochlear implants which does not ever works and they do not give them the ability to hear like many of the people thought due to being convinced with false information or false research. I highly suggest that you ban Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing organization or any other hearing foundations/organizations to market the parents of Deaf newborn with false information or false research and that the audiologists or doctors shall refer them to the proper channels such as LEAK-D or National Association of the Deaf assistance. Ask for some research, information and others from Gallaudet University so that you can be educated on Deaf community so you can get idea how awful Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing have done to us for many decades by forcing us to get cochlear implants when we never wanted them in the first place. You can see some stories from the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people where they says that they wished that they did not convince their parents with false information or false research into getting them to force their own child to get cochlear implants without their permission first so I suggest that you make it to where that if they want to get cochlear implants that they have to wait until they become the age that they can make their own decision on whether they want cochlear implants or not for themselves.
National Association of the Deaf: http://nad.org/
Lead-K: http://www.asl4deafkids.org/
Communication Service for the Deaf: http://www.csd.org/
As for yourself:
- Think carefully if you want to repeal Obamacare aka Healthcare, in begin it was named Healthcare Act but the Republicans calls it Obamacare and he went with it. If you are to repeal Obamacare, think about the frustration it can get for these twenty (20) millions people who have already signed up under Obamacare then having them to do it over again may frustrate some Americans especially these few recent millions Americans. If you are to repeal Obamacare, I suggest that you somehow make it a smooth transition for the Americans from Obamacare to something else without having them to sign up all over again. Possibly keep Obamacare but add your own to it and change its name to something else properly such as Healthcare Act which it was originally meant to be called while at the same time keep the Americans in the system so that they wouldn’t have to sign up all over again. I don’t think a lot of the people like the idea of doing something over that they did recently or when Obamacare launched. I am not exactly sure how it works, meaning I am not sure if by signing up under Obamacare stores database with their information and such. If it does store database then I’d suggest that if you are to repeal Obamacare and completely start over then move that database to the new healthcare one then have it to email them for them to confirm to make sure that their information is still accurate or for them to change to something else if needed.
- Be sure to socialize with the Americans often, like Barrack Obama did through social media and others because that helps the Americans to feel the connection with the white administration itself. You aren’t known for getting in touch with the Americans on social media much, as I have asked you one same question three or four times and never got a response from you which isn’t a good thing but you can always change that to start social with the Americans instead of ignoring them especially now that you are President-Elect. It is very important that you do.
- Keep Leah Katz-Hernandez as the white house receptionist, she is one of our people in the Deaf community as she is Deaf herself or if she can no longer to be the white house receptionist then I recommend that you find another Deaf to take over her place because Leah Katz-Hernandez have proved herself that she can do the job as receptionist well and in fact a lot of the people who met her at the reception likes her including the other country presidents or governments.
- Since you have no politic background, I suggest that you find an advisor or somebody who does to help you to know the how-tos and stuff. Be sure to pick the right secretary of the state because we want to be known as the great America that isn’t being too aggressive on other countries like Russia.
These are a few of things that I can think at the top of my head, there are several more that I can share about what it is need to be done for the Deaf community. You have over a million Deaf and Hard of Hearing people who is Americans that you are president of, if you do some or all of these I have shared with you and more then you would possibly be the president who truly make the American great again for all the people regardless their backgrounds whether it be people who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing or people with disabilities and the people with no disabilities since the president Richard Nixon with Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or strengthened yet outdated Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by George W. H. Bush and you can be the one to modernize it by either updating it and strengthen it as the outdated one is now weakened. I sincerely hope that you take this in consideration and help us as we are now your people since you are to be our president. We ask you to help us and we hope that you will.
Congratulation on being President-Elect, Donald Trump and I wish you nothing but the best for you in your first four years term. Show us that you care about us as I am giving you a chance, not just us Deaf people but every one here in the United States regardless what is their backgrounds. Please also tell your running mate, Vice President-Elect Mike Pence I congratulates him becoming the vice president of the United States as well. Again I wish you and your family the best. Feel free to contact me through my social media which I will provide the link below or use the e-mail form by going to the contact page at the top of the website to contact me privately.
Respectfully,
Joshua “Joshie” Sullivan.
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