Exclusive Treatment

If you are both crippled and native American, it must really suck to be you sometimes. After all, when you hear the word exclusive, you probably get a double case of the willies. I mean, as a crippled person, I can report that that word gives me the willies. For most people, receiving exclusive treatment makes them feel special and proud. If you live in a gated community, that is an exclusive environment because you are surrounded by a fence that is supposed to keep the riff raff out so as to protect you from them. But nursing homes are the kind of exclusive environments cripples are used to. They’re supposed to keep the riff raff fenced in so as to protect everyone on the outside from them/us. And for most people, exclusive schools have names like Harvard and Yale. But the exclusive schools cripples ended up in had names like the Minnesota School for Feeble Minded and Colony for Epileptics. And native Americans were also shipped off to exclusive schools like that. The goal of all of these exclusive schools was to refine as many of these savages as possible so as to turn as many of them as possible into English-speaking white people. But at the exclusive cripple schools, they had no such goals for any of us. Even though some of these places call themselves developmental centers, the only thing that people who have lived in those places have developed is butt callouses All that we were expected to do was sit down and shut up. I guess the powers that were must have thought that we were all destined to be savages no matter how hard they tried to save us. So why bother? (Please support Smart Ass Cripple and help us keep going. Just click below to contribute.) https://www.paypal.me/smartasscripple?fbclid=IwAR2qrql-UFH19OepgeaCG4WmblyNylb27k2q8eYxXHH