Bullying...when will it stop????

I don't blog enough. I usually blog when I have something to say. Today must be one of those days. (CNN Report on bullying)
While I agree that bullying should not be tolerated; I am also a realist. It isn't new, it was a part of my adolescence and it a part of my parents and it was a part of my grandparents as well. I honestly the problem is that bullying has gone high tech.
Then: "Suzie" was called a slut because she watched the boys skinny dipped. She was teased and berated for it.
Now : There are camera phone pictures of her watching. Then "Joe Public" takes her picture and uses paint shop pro (or some other graphic program) and places her in a room of three guys doing her in all sorts of sexual positions.
Now : not to mention; someone video taping it and it goes viral on you tube or some other chat room.
Can you imagine being exposed like this? I ain't saying it is right, but the times have changed and the stakes are much higher.
The internet brings everyone to the same level. Step out of bounds a little; and you are labelled. Retail sales are even on the web, everyone can sell to anyone.
The real problem is parents...........
1) The parents of the bullied child are not involved enough to know about the bullying. They need to be parents to the child, express how good, smart and good looking they are and that they are better than the things being said about them. But rather than do that; they want to blame the bully; the school and the parents of the bully.
2) The parents of the bully. Spend time with your child and teach them how this is wrong. Don't think that your child is so superior that they can do this to anyone. Regardless if they are or aren't there is always someone better; stronger; and smarter.
3) Society has labelled everyone. You're gay; you're easy; you're smart; you're dumb; you're ugly; you're beautiful. How about you being a human being and respect everyone regardless of what you may want to label them.
I have said it before and I say it again...
WE HAVE BECOME A SOCIETY THAT WANTS OTHERS TO RAISE OUR CHILDREN.
Both parents work and come home to family obligations and spend little "quality time" with their children. Quality time is helping with homework; watching baseball practice and reading together, but most don't do anything but sit them into front of the TV or the X-Box, make dinner in the microwave and "chill out" with a stiff drink.
Being a parent is about more than making money and putting a roof over their heads. I is about spending time and teaching them right from wrong.
I was both a victim and a bully.
Ugly (pre-puberty), younger and less atheltic were easy targets for me growing up.
Being black in a white school, I was always treated as inferior person. Good Times didn't help but ROOTS did. It was so odd to see how people changed because of roots. Suddenly I wasn't inferior but mistreated. Why? I don't know. But I learned at an early age that people are influenced by what they see., rather than what they know. They knew about slavery and acted a certain way but then saw roots and reacted a different way. Condolences to how his past ancestors treated my past ones; but no response to how they treated me today!!!

I was taught that I should treat each and everyone as equal. The ass you mistreat today maybe the one to fart on you in your future.