First of all, it’s not a choice. It’s not like wearing lime green jeans you ignorant git. You are or you aren’t.

Second, “pulled suicide”?!?!? This isn’t like throwing a temper tantrum to get attention. This is feeling so much despair and depression and hopelessness that these kids felt they had no way out. Pulled Suicide indeed. Your attitude is sickening.

Third, NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO PUT UP WITH BEING BULLIED. I don’t care if they’re gay, straight, have BO problems, wear glasses, can’t afford nice clothing, have pimples, get straight A’s, NO ONE DESERVES TO BE BULLIED. You are wrong to say that and one day when you’re older and wiser and you’ve lived through shit and come out realizing how fucking privileged your life has been so far you may be luck enough to realize how wrong you are.

ARRGGGGG!!!!!!!!

While I’m already angered and pissed off about people being stupid, I read about this hate crime in Nova Scotia, Canada, my own country that has long toted itself as a multicultural.

It’s 2010 and we’re burning crosses on the lawns of families.

I want to scream and pull my hair out!!!! Where does the hatred begin? Was it his parents? Was it school? Was it friends? Was it online influences? What convinces a young man that burning a cross with a noose on the lawn of a family with 5 children is a good idea? He’s pleaded guilty to criminal harassment but not guilty to hate crimes. How is what he did not a hate crime? Why would you do this to another person if not for hate?

I just don’t understand how some people can be driven to do the most awful and violence actions. Whether it’s gang raping a girl outside a rave, torturing a man because he’s gay, or bullying teens to the point where they feel they have no choice but to kill themselves, the hate begins somewhere.

Why hate?  Tell me please, because I’m really trying to understand where these people are coming from. What are they getting out of it? How does it improve their lives?

I have yet to hear an answer.

For anyone who reads this blog, my apologies for neglecting it these past weeks. I find the balance between crafting and blogging about the state of the world a hard balance to achieve.
I don’t have a lot of time right now either, but there’s a news story I watched this morning that has me worried and saddened beyond belief.

For anyone who pays attention to European politics, there has been a disturbing trend of anti-immigration sentiment which is fueling right wing parties to greater power…. And now in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has told a gathering of young members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union party this weekend that multiculturalism has utterly failed.

She stated that; “We feel tied to Christian values. Those who don’t accept them don’t have a place here.” More and more accross the world, anit-Islam sentiment rises and I sit here… frothing with impotent anger at how sad and confused these people are.

Never more have I felt Terence McKenna’s words of “Culture is not your friend”. What use is holding on to values that devide us? Lines drawn on the maps in our heads. Why isn’t is glaringly obvious that we’re all people? For a hundred thousand years humans have moved all over this planet. We are a migratory species in a sense.

I’d also like to point out one the BIG PINK ELEPHANT in this issue that I never ever see talked about. Why are people moving to Europe? The US? Canada? ect? Because we make the rest of the world live in abject poverty where day to day life is really fucking hard.

So don’t sit there and tell me that multiculturalism is an utter failure. And that we need to stick with people who are more like us. Because we’re all fucking human beings, and skin color, personal spiritual beliefs, sexual orientation are all the beautiful different colors in the rainbow of humanity. And we all share this planet. And the only way we’re going to survive is when we collectively work together and GET OVER OURSELVES.

Bah, I’ve got to get to work.