Hello,
Last month I wrote about - “National Kick A Ginger Day” after Ginger haired kids in a Yorkshire school were set upon by other pupils. Purely because they had ginger hair.
You can read the post in here in full.
I was worried that in the future we would hear how this concoction of physical and cyber bullying will lead to serious injury to an innocent kid who happens to be Ginger – but it is OK – it was only done “for a laugh” and “no harm was meant.”
Simon Walters, below was just 14 years of age when he hung himself in his Smethwick home last October because of taunts and abuse from other pupils about his ginger hair.
I would like to point out the ”Kick A Ginger Day” is still scheduled for November 20th and there remain Facebook accounts open to promote this nonsense.
Twitter has a #kickagingerday thread doing the rounds now.
Please contact Facebook to close these pages down and also Tweet to counter the thoughtless nonsense on #kickagingerday .
A tasteless joke is spiralling out of control. It is only a hair colour after all.
Thanks
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