There has been a lot of talk about suicide by bullying and now suicide by gay. The events of the pass few months have been horrendous. Tyler Clementi, the freshmen from Rutgers, who felt that life was not worth it after his roommate decided to out him to the world (is this replacing sports and drinking at colleges?), jumped off the George Washington Bridge last week. It’s always the wrong kids who jump.
What are we doing to our children – gay or straight? We are losing our hope. We are losing what could have been the peacemakers in our world.
I want to thank Ellen who proclaimed on her show ”ENOUGH” the day after Tyler said no to a life full of potential. It has always been “ENOUGH.” But now we need to put the bullies on notice. 
Rest in Peace.
Your gig is up.
I was bullied as a kid. I was spat upon by 2 girls, Madia and Valerie, who thought it was a funny thing to do whenever they saw me. I had cruel words hurled in my direction and I was chased home by the boy bullies in our school. I was also bullied by some of my teachers because I was “different.” I am dyslexic which meant “dummy” back then. Nobody tried to help – I was just being lazy and lazy led to being abused – verbally and physically.
I developed armor and it started to hurt less as I got older. But I could not let people in. Still have that problem. All because of the bullies and adults who diminished me because I was better than them. That is how I see it now. I had a spark, creativity and talent that was left out of their gene pool. So they resorted to brutalizing anyone they came into contact with.
Your gig is up.
I ran into some bullies in the workplace. Some showed all the makings of a schoolyard bully with breasts and I remember going home in tears because I could not defend myself. You can’t tell your bosses to go screw themselves and keep your job. But I would like to speak to them today and say – go screw yourself. You know who you are and you should be ashamed of yourselves. I was not the only victim who littered their path of destruction. So I say this for all of us.
Your gig is up.
Let us stand up to the bullies and put them on notice. While we are at it, put their parents on notice. These kids didn’t come into the world as bullies. They had to be taught.
To all our children that took the lonely route out of life, I am so sorry that we made the world too harsh, too unforgiving for you. Rest in peace. It is our greatest shame.
Your gig is up.
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altering my birthday for the rest of my life, but of course that’s what happened. And even worse, his step-mother was born on the same day as I was. Finding a card for this occasion is going to be damn near impossible. No one has a clue what was in the head of this handsome, popular, getting-ready-for-college, Soccer superstar with two girlfriends. And try as I might, I can’t find any redeeming lessons from this one. Just sadness that will always linger and a multitude of lives that changed forever on that day.
Dream does not include being bullied to the point of taking one’s life. For the Prince family, it is exactly what their American nightmare is all about now.
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