RIP, young Lawrence King
Sad story about a young boy killed in his classroom in California, just for being different:
OXNARD, Calif. - Hundreds of mourners gathered at a church here on Friday to remember an eighth-grade boy who was shot to death inside a junior high school computer lab by a fellow student in what prosecutors are calling a hate crime.
In recent weeks, the victim, Lawrence King, 15, had said publicly that he was gay, classmates said, enduring harassment from a group of schoolmates, including the 14-year-old boy charged in his death....
...The gunman, identified by the police as Brandon McInerney, “is just as much a victim as Lawrence,” said Masen Davis, executive director of the Transgender Law Center. “He’s a victim of homophobia and hate.”
I take exception to this statement from another article about this case:...Middle school "is a difficult age to teach tolerance," said Jerry Dannenberg, superintendent of the Hueneme School District, which includes E.O. Green School....
Uh, what? Yeah, it would be nice to teach tolerance. But how about you start with teaching don't shoot people? You don't shoot people if they're gay, black, Asian, Hispanic, male, female, disagreeing with you -- you never shoot people.
OXNARD, Calif. - Hundreds of mourners gathered at a church here on Friday to remember an eighth-grade boy who was shot to death inside a junior high school computer lab by a fellow student in what prosecutors are calling a hate crime.
In recent weeks, the victim, Lawrence King, 15, had said publicly that he was gay, classmates said, enduring harassment from a group of schoolmates, including the 14-year-old boy charged in his death....
...The gunman, identified by the police as Brandon McInerney, “is just as much a victim as Lawrence,” said Masen Davis, executive director of the Transgender Law Center. “He’s a victim of homophobia and hate.”
I take exception to this statement from another article about this case:...Middle school "is a difficult age to teach tolerance," said Jerry Dannenberg, superintendent of the Hueneme School District, which includes E.O. Green School....
Uh, what? Yeah, it would be nice to teach tolerance. But how about you start with teaching don't shoot people? You don't shoot people if they're gay, black, Asian, Hispanic, male, female, disagreeing with you -- you never shoot people.