Until recently I had no idea of the plight many red-headed people go through as far as getting picked-on and taunted over their hair color. In this video ABC goes in-depth and discusses “ginger discrimination.” Apparently the English royal family gets talked about over their hair color. British parents even have to pull their children out of school over playground taunting. In the UK people have been driven out of their neighborhoods and into courtrooms over their hair color!
Here is the link to watch a video ginger discrimination: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=3425585
I don’t know what to say about this next case, but this man had a bad reaction to a medication he was taking and his skin turned blue and now he has to live that way.
Here is the link for the real life blue man:http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=4028009
A penny for your thoughts: If you have red hair, please share your story; is the discrimination as bad as the video makes it out to be, have you ever been made-fun of because of your hair color? If you have had a bad reaction to a medication and your skin turned blue please comment?
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2 comments:
I've never heard about legitimate discrimination (like an ABC news package) about redheads before but it's something that I've talked about with my other redheaded friends. Two of my close friends have even redder hair than I do and all of us have had those really hurtful comments come our way because of our red hair. It's something that was more prevalent in high school than it is now in college. Probably the worst one that was said to me was (and this was serious) was, "I wouldn't touch a redhead with a 10-foot pole." And of course, the inevitable, "fire crotch." In retrospect, the comments seem silly but no one wants to be singled out because of how they look.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience but I'm glad that you had a chance to share it on my blog. I think this blog post is great to show people that discrimination touches everyone's life. Some people can't relate to the heavy forms of discrimination, but discrimination comes in many forms and will continue as long as there are differences amongst people, i.e. forever.
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