Bullies beware! While social media may be a very popular form of bullying these days, with fathers like Brad Knudson of Prior Lake, Minn. around, it may also be a bullies worst enemy.
You see, after Brad found out that his adopted black daughter was receiving nasty and racist messages this past New Years Eve on the app Snapchat from kids at her school, he tried to resolve the issue by trying to speak to the parents. After that didn’t work, he went to the police and the school.
When not much could be done, Brad asked if he could try and contact the parents again. After dealing with a rude and dismissive father, that Brad says justified the bullying by saying such things as “that’s what he did when he was a kid” and that “him [sic] and his family make jokes at the house using this word all the time, Brad took matters to the next level.
Brad says that he told the father that he was going to post everything that had been happening on YouTube, after which the father replied: “I don’t care.” The father also didn’t seem to have a problem with Brad revealing his name in the YouTube video.
So true to his word, Brad made the video in response to the bullies of his 14-year-old daughter that has since gone viral. One has to watch the video to truly appreciate the callousness and the total lack of human decency that these bullies show. It even becomes worse when you have parents that seem to overlook this type of behavior as normal.
All too often these days we hear of young children taking their own lives over bullying. In fact, in the video that Brad posted to YouTube, he mentions that some very good friends of the family had a son commit suicide a week-and-a-half earlier, at the age of 13, due to bullying.
With so much at stake, this is a problem that we truly must continue to address. And bravo to this amazing father for sticking up for his daughter this way.
