At about 4:40, a girl who, at first, doesn’t seem totally keen on same-sex marriage says something that gives me hope. At 5:21, an adorable little boy tries to make sense of what “gay” even means. At 9:40, one young lady nails it with how she’d handle it if a gay friend had a crush …
Author: Sairah Qureshi
A Famous Columnist Has Trouble Defining Racism. Colbert Eats Him For Dinner.
“Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — …
Boy killed himself after years of bullying, inquest hears
Ayden Keenan-Olson, 14, researched suicide online and left notes outlining homophobic and racist abuse he faced at school. An inquest has heard that a teenager researched suicide online before taking his own life after years of bullying. Ayden Keenan-Olson, 14, was found dead in his bed by his father, Tim Olson, at the family home …
Watch A Teenager Bring His Class To Tears Just By Saying A Few Words
There are many reasons so many of us stayed silent. In my own case, it was fear of losing my career and all I had worked for. In the case of this young man, it was his stammer, for which he was bullied into silence for years. He remained without a voice until an amazing …
Bullying and Racist Bullying in Schools: What are we Missing?
Bullying and Racist Bullying in Schools: What are we Missing? http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1483627977/ UK Amazon link
‘Glee Project’ Focuses On Bullying, Contestants Share Their Experiences
“The Glee Project,” Oxygen’s reality TV competition which awards its winner the opportunity to star on the hugely popular Fox series “Glee,” is currently burning through its second season. Tonight’s episode is devoted to the topic of “vulnerability” and Cory Monteith, who plays Finn Hudson on “Glee,” will help the contestants channel their emotions to …
Florida cyber-bullying suspect: Truth will never come out because victim ‘went to hell’
One of the two Florida girls accused of cyber-bullying a 12-year-old classmate who committed suicide said in Facebook messages released Friday that “no one [will] ever know the truth” because the girl “went to hell.” Rebecca Ann Sedwick died after jumping from a third-story cement plant structure on Sept. 10 after having been verbally, physically …
The Why Factor: Bullying
Why do humans bully, why do some do it and others allow it? Are bullies born or do they learn their bullying? Mike Williams speaks to anthropologist Christopher Boehm about links between the bullying behaviour of our ape ancestors and our own behaviour. He also speaks to author Helene Guldberg about the challenges defining the …
What is Bullying?
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Echols’Middle (Brown) “You Had to Pick on Me” Anti-bully video
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