SUICIDE: Terrel Williams, 17, Hangs Himself In Bedroom Closet After High School Beati

[Crux]

SUICIDE: Terrel Williams, 17, Hangs Himself In Bedroom Closet After High School Beating



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No, no. Not another one. (http://www.queerty.com/oakland-university-student-corey-jackson-19-hangs-himself-20101020/) Please: Beverly Hills native Terrel Williams,, 17, hung himself in his bedroom closet Oct. 13 after enduring torment at his high school. His mother Cheryl found him in his bedroom, dead.
The suicide came hours after an attack by five high school classmates, who threw Williams into a brick wall at Clover Park High School in Lakewood, Washington, reports LGBTQ Nation (http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2010/10/second-gay-teen-this-month-takes-his-life-another-case-of-anti-gay-bullying/). His boyfriend Daric Rawr, 16, says he was unaware of the attack and was en route to Terel's house for a family dinner when Terel's mother Cheryl called him. Terel had to be driven home from school after the assault. Daric describes his fallen partner: as a "compassionate, fun loving, outgoing person who enjoyed life to the fullest. He loved life, but felt the need to take it, because [the bullying] didn’t stop … respectful, whole hearted people like Terrel, and the growing number of others, shouldn’t have to feel suicide is the answer, because bullies won’t stop."
Terel's suicide note reads:

I’m sorry to my immediate loved ones, but I feel suicide is the only way out. I felt coming out, and being happy with Daric, was the best thing I could’ve ever done. But I didn’t think it would lead to my death at an early age. Today, was the record worst day of my life, some kids at school stole some of my stuff that I got from people I really cared about, and that really pushed me over the top, next to being shoved into a wall, and my ribs being broken.
Cheryl posted to Terrel's Twitter account:

My son meant the world, and high school bullies pushed him over the edge. I hope and pray, that no other child ever has to go through what he did. Bullying isn’t worth it. Why can’t people just be nice?
Bizarrely, Terrel suffered a gunshot wound Sept. 31 during an apparent robbery while visiting New York City. Terrel would have turned 18 on Saturday. He is at least the second gay teenager to take his life this month, and the eighth in two months. I think I speak for every reader when I say our hearts are with his family and friends.




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[the last donut of the night]

Fucking monsters. They'll pay, fucking dicks. I don't know when, but they will one day.

[Fulanito de Tal]

And we call ourselves civilized.

"Oh, that absurd 1st world."

[Martin Blank]

It's pretty clear now that there is a decisive and semi-organized backlash taking place against oppressed people in the U.S. It's not just LGBTQ, but Arabs and Muslims, women, African Americans, the poor and elderly, the disabled, etc. It is not over-the-top to say that much of this is coming from the increasingly fascistic elements in the "Tea Party" Nativist movement and their media mouthpieces.

Earlier today, Democratic Congressman Raul Grijalva's office in Tuscon, Ariz., was the target of a toxic chemical attack, in the form of an envelope containing an unknown white powder. The envelope had swastikas all over it and contained threats against Grijalva, mostly due to his open opposition to the state's "papers, please" law, SB1070.

[Die Rote Fahne]

Should have those who beat himcharged with manslaughter

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

Should have those who beat himcharged with manslaughter

This is a good idea, insofar as the capitalist legal system works.