This warms my energy

I read this article in The Chronical Herald:

Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt.

The Grade 9 student arrived for the first day of school last Wednesday and was set upon by a group of six to 10 older students who mocked him, called him a homosexual for wearing pink and threatened to beat him up.

The next day, Grade 12 students David Shepherd and Travis Price decided something had to be done about bullying.

"It’s my last year. I’ve stood around too long and I wanted to do something," said David.

They used the Internet to encourage people to wear pink and bought 75 pink tank tops for male students to wear. They handed out the shirts in the lobby before class last Friday — even the bullied student had one.

"I made sure there was a shirt for him," David said.

This kind of shit just gets me, it really does. I sat and read this story and couldn't help but smile. To think two teenage boys decided that making fun of someone for the color of their clothing was un-acceptable. What an empowering thought for them to have, so much that they decided not just thinking it was enough, they had to do something.

These two are very clever because here is the thing, i'm sure half of the kids that wore these Pink tops were some of the few who made fun, or thought of making fun of the 9th grader. Probably because the two bullies were making fun of them. That's what teenagers do, they follow because they don't want to appear "un-cool."

David Shepard and Travis Price, 12th grader geniuses, decided that them two alone could not prove a point, but thought if you involve the "followers" a point could be proven in a very positive way.

These two created a silent protest against school bullying, these two threw the absurdities of the world in the faces of the ones who perpetuate it. School officials do jack shit about bullying, they see it as making a kid "tough" and that it is healthy. Parents also see it as this way, and are quick to fault the victim as being too weak to stick up for themselves. Parents are the perpetuals of hate, kids see their parents actions and emulate, thus a sick virus of ignorance.

It took two 12th grade students to prove what idiots school officials are. They may not think of it the way i do but these two guys made a small difference in the world. My Hero's!