National Kick A Ginger Day

I found the video we watched in class rather funny as most of my peers did.  We laughed because this seems like something so ridiculous that it couldn't actually have any substance to it.  Why would anyone ever be discriminated against because of their hair color? Well I feel the same way about people being discriminated against because of their skin color.  It seems like such an idiotic thing to me, yet it still happens and has happened all throughout history.  Some race and ethnic relations have been getting much better, but others are still the same or still developing.  I always thought National Kick a Ginger Day was a joke that no body would ever take seriously, but after some research I found a video explaining that because of South Park's episode on ginger's, one twelve year old actually got beaten on this day in November because of this.  I have seen, and laughed along with this same South Park episode.  I never thought that anyone would ever take this as a serious thing or something to discriminate against others for, but evidently there are others out there that don't know how to separate what they see on television from reality.