Serve a little.

I sit and ponder the ills of the world....

Wrongful Conviction and the Deaf. A man has been in prison for murder since 1994. He has three children who were placed in the foster care system and raised without him. He has a grandson he has never met. He is Deaf. I am 99.9% sure he is innocent. I have been working on his case since January 2007. It has consumed me. I wrote a forty plus-page memo regarding facts of his innocence, what transpired between police officers and this man and deaf witnesses with no interpreter present (leading to awful miscommunications), means by which evidence was hidden and information about who I think actually committed the murder, among other things. I submitted such memo to countless justice/deaf-centric organizations. One has taken interest. Why aren't people clamoring to free this man (and those like him)? Perhaps I am the insane person here--it has consumed me; it keeps me awake at night; I cannot celebrate holidays without thinking about how he has missed so many over the past seventeen years; I think of how much his childrem must have missed out on.... Would you believe that none of the deaf-centered organizations assisted? Nope. Not one.

So many people/organizations talk about equality and justice, and yet so few act to make such ideas more than mere ideas.

I look forward to the day when people match their walk with their talk. Then we can actually bring about the changes we seek that human kind so greatly deserves--especially our historically disenfranchised brothers and sisters.

There is always a place to invest your humanity in humanity.