“THEY” Cripple Society Volume 2: Who are “THEY” and how do they do it? An Expose in True to Life Narrative Exploring Stories of Discrimination. Cleon E. Spencer

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      This book is an exposé about fine, clean cut, often highly intelligent, well charactered, cultured, down to earth people and the discrimination widely practiced against them. These people are often exceptional in one or more ways, not necessarily academically, though that may be, and they have the potential to make a wonderful contribution to life. Some academics have a problem with this, as if academically is the only way to be exceptional. Indeed, it is one of the most noble. But there are other ways. For example, a well known publication tells us of shy people: “Shyness in its milder forms is associated with traits such as greater empathy, more acute perceptiveness, canny intuition, and beneficent sensitivity. All qualities that are nothing to be shy about.” (U.S. News & World Report, Inc., June 21, 1999, P.57, New York, N.Y.) This is just one instance among many where a person can be exceptional in a manner that numerous academics are not, and it should be an accepted fact by them and others.

      However, a considerable portion of the general population, in high places and low, for various reasons which are stated and illustrated by case stories in the book, discriminate against these fine exceptional people in ways that often amount to gross mental abuse. The practice, though widely exercised, has seldom been recognized for what it is: severe, СКАЧАТЬ