From: Violet Beck (seizansha@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 12:10:17 MST
FIRSTLY, greetings. i'm new to virus, as you have noticed. i stumbled upon
the site one day and found myself nodding in agreement to all of your
principles. and thus, here i am.
I have spent my entire life in a medium sized, upper-middle class suburban
community. I am blonde, blue-eyed Caucasian female who attends an expensive
prepratory school along with eight hundred other children that look and
speak almost exactly the way I do.
And I, as a human being, am considered grossly abnormal. I live simply and
dress conservatively. I do not watch much television and i spend most of my
time writing. I am openly bisexual. It's not that I am a repulsing or
unfriendly person--in fact, i try very hard to be kind--it is simply in my
few small differences in lifestyle that make people dislike me to the point
of hatred.
you see it everywhere: the white kid in the black school; the short kid on
the football team; the quieter man in the office. people always have someone
to pick on. They harass those that don't fit into their mold for society for
no reason other than that, deep down, this discrepancy amongst their fellows
perturbs them.
And it comes down to a large question: how to stop it? It is obvious that
many disasters could be averted; school shootings come first to my mind. A
few ideas come to mind, such as MTV's PSA campain to raise awareness about
minority groups in our community, but aside from that they only change i've
met so far since columbine was a metal detector to walk through every
morning. And that, my friends, is NOT a solution: it is trying to plug the
dam with sealing wax. we need to pull the weed out by the roots.
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