🙂 Growing up hasn’t made me feel any less as an outsider at times. Such is life, eh?
The death of a 7 year-old boy from Detroit, who is believed to have hanged himself in mid-May, 2012, because he faced bullying at school and the separation of his parents, should have been a wake-up call to all families and communities.
This tragedy should have prompted people of Afrikan descent to dispel the myths about the need for counseling and mental health when a child is troubled and of course, the need for more of us to pursue careers in the field of mental health.
But it didn’t.
Last year, in September, family and friends of Lamar Hawkins III gathered to honor the life of the 14 year-old who committed suicide in his school’s bathroom after suffering bullying for months, from boys AND girls.
Hawkins attended Greenwood Lakes Middle School in Lake Mary, Florida.
The family had recently moved to Sanford, Florida from New York to raise their children in a safer environment…
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Monique L. Desir 
Thank you for a powerful post!
I reblogged it though so I can’t take the credit. 🙂