Let's Wear Purple!

Let’s wear purple for the fallen boys, who couldn’t stand up to the mean, big, bad, bullies. Let’s honor and revere their decision to end their lives in a cowardly display of selfishness and self pity. Let us raise a cup to their act of self termination and look down upon those evil, deplorable specters that haunted their lives. Let us teach our young children that it’s ok to falter under pressure, and to point blame at others for your own cowardly, selfish actions. Let us paint their tormentors as evil, heartless people who wished nothing but harm to any and all around them. Let us pin all blame and point all fingers to the tormentors direction, for surely it was they that pulled the trigger, tied the rope, slipped the pills, or administered the slashes.

Let’s raise a cup to those poor, hurt boys, who on April the fourth, after being pushed, bullied, and tormented took weaponry to school and ended so many lives, the lives of those who looked down on them, and were ultimately driven to end their own, miserable existence, for surely all those who are bullied and take extreme measures to escape should be honored.

I say no.

I say wear purple for the rights of all humans, men and women, for all life styles and choices. That is what makes the ideals that were set forth by the founding fathers so potent, even hundreds of years after they were first conceived. I say we raise those among us who, despite adversity and desperation, stood and refused to be broken, we honor them. Whether homosexual, heterosexual, transsexual, bisexual, white, black, yellow, and every color between, I say we call dishonor and weakness what it is, and strength and determination should in their place be honored.

I disagree with the actions of the so called “bullies” whatever it is that they had enacted to so dishearten others. I do not, however, disagree on the basis that they people who ultimately took such severe action were gay. I disagree on the basis that as humans, do we not all deserve the basic rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? By demeaning another, we remove those unalienable rights, and by taking one’s own life, you prove you did not deserve those rights by refusing to use and appreciate them.

Wear purple, or don’t, for whatever reason you find fitting for you, after all, that is your right to have your opinion and mind set. I’m for the rights of humans, no matter what or who they may be, but I make a stand for those who will use and appreciate those rights, not those who, in times of adversity, laid down and gave up.