"NEW YORK, April 9, 2009 - An 11-year-old Massachusetts boy, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, hung himself Monday after enduring bullying at school, including daily taunts of being gay, despite his mother’s weekly pleas to the school to address the problem. This is at least the fourth suicide of a middle-school aged child linked to bullying this year.
Carl, a junior at New Leadership Charter School in Springfield who did not identify as gay, would have turned 12 on April 17, the same day hundreds of thousands of students will participate in the 13th annual National Day of Silence by taking some form of a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) bullying and harassment at school. The other three known cases of suicide among middle-school students took place in Chatham, Evanston and Chicago, Ill., in the month of February."- from philton
I'm just wondering when the world is gonna embrace the practice of being true to ourselves... I want to live in a world where its okay to be gay, straight, Black, whatever! And I'm so upset that it is still taboo to be gay and Black. Maybe we wouldn't have so many closeted gay men in relationships with heterosexual women if we created a society in which a person was free to be whatever and whomever they'd like! Why is everyone so afraid of EVOLUTION??????
such a shame! it saddens me that black people, with our destroyed sense of self because of non acceptance and prejudice, can be so quick to do harm to anyone else who is 'different'. how dare you hurt someone for simply being who they are? white people and religion do that, speaking of religion, which i feel is the seed of the hate for gay people... let 'The Lord' deal with homosexuals as he or she sees fit!
ReplyDeleteI'd think God would appreciate our acceptance for people he put us on earth to live with as opposed to foolishly doing 'his work'.
my heart goes out to his fam.
Honestly, this story almost brought me to literal tears. I can't fathom the amount of pain this beautiful boy went through to end his own life. He was to turn 12 on the exact same date as my own birthday (April 17) and my heart cries for his mother. I am SO over the whole gay bashing thing that seems to be so prevalent in our community. It is killing us in more ways than one (these downlow bro's killin' our sistas with AIDS). Let's get it together people!!!
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