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Today is Pink Shirt Day!
CHML
2/26/2013

It's a day to unite and stand up against bullying.

Pink Shirt Day was inspired by two grade 12 Nova Scotian students in 2007.

They decided to take action after witnessing a grade 9 student being bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school.

The students bought 50 pink t-shirts and encouraged schoolmates to wear them and send a powerful message of solidarity to the bully.

Since then, the idea for Pink Shirt Day has become a nation wide effort spearheaded by the Boys and Girls Club of Vancouver. 

Local organizations in Hamilton have jumped on board to raise awareness including Living Rock, the Boys and Girls Club, Catholic Youth Organization, YWCA and the Eva Rothwell Centre.

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  1. JamesJ posted on 02/27/2013 08:52 AM
    My daughter doesn't like pink and last year she didn't want to wear pink. Guess what. She was bullied for this and is now worried about attending school today.

    The pink shirt campaign is based on the premise that the bully is someone else.
    "I wore a pink shirt so therefore I'm not bully. You did not so therefore you are."

    Both children & adults bully others almost everyday and are unaware that they are bullying because they don't do it directly. It's bullying in it's most subversive form. It's called gossip. It's murder by the way of character assassination.

    Bullying is a "heart" issue that we all have to face by looking in the mirror. This campaign about external moralism and not the heart. And external moralism creates bullies as my daughter experienced last year.
  2. MariaR_6861 posted on 02/27/2013 09:54 AM
    Ok. Lets talk about the heart. In the heart that is full of love there is no place for hatred.
    The importance we missing here is to have respect for the one and for all. There always going to be the ones who does not know how to fit in or just dont want to.
    Let us teach that every time we do something good it will form our characters for our benefits. What we need to do is to teach our children's to "do unto others as you would want some one to do unto you" . That is a good commandments. It is also tell it all. Non of us want to be degraded, dragged down , and placed in the eyes of the world to be making a joke, a laughing stock and be ashamed. It all comes back to morale values, that dictated by respect and tolerance. Let us promote respect that where everyone is minding their own business and make all efforts to cultivate a feeling of peace in society. I believe that the only thing to be needed to be followed is compassion's and that will pave the way for other peaceful and joyful events for each person on the earth. May peace in the lights of the heavens touch the hearts of each one of us and create a new heart in us.
    1. JamesJ posted on 02/27/2013 11:15 AM
      @MariaR_6861 Unfortunately the heart (our thoughts, desires & will) is not full of love. Instead "the heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure" (Jeremiah 17:9) so we lie to ourselves and justify our behaviour to others.
      That's why children who were externally doing the "moral" thing and trying to cultivate a feeling of peace in society by wearing pink T-shirts were able to bully my daughter for not doing so.
      We don't need behaviour modification. We need heart transformation.

      God promised that when He said, "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh." Ezekiel 36:26
      And he fulfilled that promise in His Son.
      "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17
  3. MariaR_6861 posted on 02/27/2013 05:35 PM
    As it has been written, it shall be so.
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