This happened in the small town of Black Creek, North Carolina in the early hours of a Sunday morning. The words “Suck this, faggot” were written on his bare chest with his own blood. In the book Shine by Lauren Myracle, seventeen-year-old Patrick Truman was beaten by a bat, tied to a guardrail of a fuel dispenser and had a gasoline pump duct taped in his mouth. They are not acceptable! We don’t know it, but society rules us in every way to try and make us feel the same way that it does. There’s just no tolerance for the people who break these rules. And God forbid you to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or what have you. You cannot stray off of these paths that society has etched in stone. Then comes gender: Women stay home or work petty jobs, while the men work as CEOs and in factories. If you’re Middle Eastern, you plan to commit suicide by bombing an important building. If you’re Black, you are a thief and you sell drugs. It’s like society has a set of rules that are never mentioned but everyone knows when one of these “rules” has been broken. However, society has a slightly different outlook on life: Love who you are and be proud of it in every way, as long as you’re normal and stick to the status quo. Everyone is taught from a very young age to love who they are and be proud of it in every way.
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