South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley brought her anti-bullying campaign to a grammar school on Hilton Head Island and told her own story of being bullied as a child, reports Island Packet.
“I grew up in a small town where we were the only Indian family, and I was bullied because they didn’t know if I was black or if I was white,” she said. “All I knew was I was Indian. I was brown; and I was bullied because I wouldn’t take a side. … So I told my parents and my parents talked to the teachers, and we ended up educating the class.
“Today, we’re all good friends. But what I learned was to be strong and to speak up.”
Her message to the students was “cool kids don’t bully.”
You can read more about her campaign on the Island Packet and hear the moving story about why she started this campaign in the video below.