Here is a snippet of the Globe &
Mail article that inspired CKNW Orphans’ Fund 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 other headed off to a discount store and bought 50 pink tank tops.
They sent out 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.”
