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Libdemologists: Ginger Family Should "Dye Hair"?
Kevin, 11, left, Daniel, 9, and Ryelle, 10, have suffered cruel taunts
Listening to Radio Five Live this evening I was astonished at an item on red hair and the extreme bullying and abuse that can ensue. One charming caller from Glasgow insisted over and over again that Ginger hair was a certain sign of an evil nature.
Even more extraordinary was the story of the Chapman Family of two ginger haired parents with nine children, most ginger, who have been terrorised. This has been reported widely, in The Times, The Mirror and The Sun. Worldwide in fact as a Google Search brings 23,000 hits.
Young Kevin Chapman, aged 11, was so distraught that he tried to kill himself by hanging. The Chapmans insist, and their account is compelling, that Newcastle City Council suggested at one point that they should dye their kids' hair. While the Council claim this is not correct I am certainly persuaded by the first hand account given on air.
Whatever next from these Lib Dems? Recommending skin whitening, hair straightening and the like for victims of racist bullying? And continuing to move victims rather than bullies.
Well done to the young wizard Ron Weasley and others for ringing in and joining the discussion.
4 comments:
WOW. I became interested in this after watching the "red power" episode of south park.
However in Australia recently a guy was granted 1mn in damages for bullying that occured at primary school over a decade earlier. And he had red hair
Clearly being ginger does make you evil though. I should know.
NINE children????
I trust they have sufficient income to afford so many kids and that they don't let them run around causing trouble.
I think they stay in the house sheltered under tables in case the lonely look-at-me kids with no brothers and sisters or sense of community brick their windows, burn them in effigy, spray graffiti on their homes etc. While the useless council do next to nothing.
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