Chris Haulmark​ shares an idea on how to resolve some of America's oppressive prejudices.

[Video Description: Chris Haulmark, a white male with short brown hair and trimmed beard, is standing in a kitchen with blue, short-sleeved, and button-up shirt.]

Hello all!

This is Chris Haulmark, running for US House of Representatives in Kansas’s Third Congressional District.

Today, we’re going to discus about how to...hmm…resolve prejudices, okay.

Now, we saw what happened last evening.

I went ahead and attended at the Johnson County Democratic Party Women’s event, where people (as did you, too) watched on, realizing that my suffering through one of the most common prejudices in our society today, okay?

For the Deaf community, this is our being deprived of communication access.

The word defining that is “audism.”

Ok, now we understand this.

Now, we can see the oppression can apply to women, too.

That’s what “sexism” is.

Furthermore, the oppression of people with different skin color is called “racism.”

For the elderly, where preference goes toward only the younger or only older folks, that’s “ageism.”

Now we can see all those different prejudices, okay?

Now, our suggested explanation for HOW We The People can resolve, yes, SOLVE all these prejudices, minimizing their impact as much as possible.

How so?

WE THE PEOPLE need to be comfortable in discussing about those “-isms” actions.

If someone accused me for being prejudiced, I should not DENY the accusation.

I should not DEFEND my viewpoint.

Indeed, I should be OPEN to dialogue, and say: “How so? How did I do that? Please do educate me.”

All with the goal of improving myself, aiming for less prejudice.

Okay, got it?

Now last night, as you saw, audism happened, -a gentle reminder: I’m POSITIVE some of those kind ladies- very nice and unquestionably wonderful women meant well- seeing how helpless I was without the communication access of an American Sign Language Interpreting Team.

Now these ladies have that power to ENSURE that I get an American Sign Language Interpreting Team in the future.

If they don’t, they can look for the appropriate entity who has that power to reduce audism.

Get it?

Okay.

It’s analogous to racism, which is a HORRIBLY deeply ingrained element of our country, including Kansas- yes.

So, we white people need to be comfortable discussing racism.

Should a POC: a Person of Color, contact us and says that I, Chris Haulmark, am being racist, then I want to sit down, face-to-face, with that person and listen, asking “How am I being racist?”

With the acceptance that I may be racist, and striving to continue reducing the actions.

With the objective of learning what I can do to ensure that I do not continue the racist actions ever again.

By making fellow Persons of Color feel comfortable with my presence, understanding that ALL OF WE THE PEOPLE are HUMAN BEINGS- ALL AMERICANS!

So, yes, we need to ACCEPT this social construct and make it right by OUR REFRAMING towards making our GREAT country amazingly PROGRESSIVE in social justice!

Chris Haulmark for tearing down prejudices!

[Video fades into a black background with a logo of a cartoonish Chris Haulmark signing “Believe” with white text of “Yes, We Can Believe” below the logo. There is the text of www.HaulmarkForCongress.com at the bottom]

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