The Origins of Pink Shirt Day
“David Shepherd, Travis Price and their teenage
friends organized a high-school protest to wear pink in sympathy with a Grade 9
boy who was being bullied [for wearing a pink shirt]…[They] took a stand
against bullying when they protested against the harassment of a new Grade 9
student by distributing pink T-shirts to all the boys in their school. ‘I
learned that two people can come up with an idea, run with it, and it can do
wonders,’ says Mr. Price, 17, who organized the pink protest. ‘Finally, someone
stood up for a weaker kid.’ So Mr. Shepherd and some others headed off to
a discount store and bought 50 pink tank tops. They sent out a message to
schoolmates that night, and the next morning they hauled the shirts to school
in a plastic bag. As they stood in the foyer handing out the shirts,
the bullied boy walked in. His face spoke volumes. ‘It looked like a huge
weight was lifted off his shoulders,’ Mr. Price recalled. The bullies
were never heard from again.”
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