Posted on 07/25/2023 10:22:40 AM PDT by lowbridge
A retired Canadian principal has taken his life after relentless bullying by a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant hired by his district.
On Thursday, attorney Lisa Bildy took to Twitter to break the sad news that her client, 60-year-old Richard Bilkszto, a former principal with the Toronto District School Board had committed suicide.
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Bilkszto retired in 2019, but continued to do contract work for the school district. However, Bildy said that he “suffered an affront to [his] stellar reputation in the spring of 2021, causing him severe mental distress.”
“Unfortunately, the stress and effects of these incidents continued to plague Richard,” Bildy said. “Last week, he succumbed to this distress.
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The “affront” the Bildy referred to came at the hands of a DEI consultant hired by the district named Kike Ojo-Thompson, founder of the woke KOJO Institute, which helps institutions with DEI initiatives.
According to National Review, in one of the “equity sessions” hosted by Ojo-Thompson, Bilkszto challenged her claim that Canada was an institutionally racist country. Ojo-Thompson responded to Bilkszto by lambasting him for his whiteness.
Another DEI expert joined in, National Review reported, scolding Bilkszto with the line, “if you want to be an apologist for the U.S. or Canada, this is really not the forum for that.”
Following the session, the school board issued a statement commending Ojo-Thompson for modeling how to overcome “resistance” to DEI initiatives, and in later meetings, Ojo-Thompson continued to single out Bilkszto’s comments as a form of “resistance,” National Review reported.
Bilkszto later sued the school board, demanding an investigation into the consultant’s behavior, which the board refused. However, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, an Ontario insurance collective, did investigate and ruled that Ojo-Thompson’s conduct did constitute bullying, National Review reported.
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Weak men create hard times.
Ibram X. Kendi, originator of all this “DEI” nonsense.
Sad.
DEI is a sham. The offices themselves are not diverse and they are not equitable. Let them model the true meaning of DEI before they attempt to impose their egocentric models on others.
She thinks DEI gives her the right to do this to whitey ,she should be sued
Or worse. A blanket party at the very least.

Once somebody gets this DEI mumbo jumbo playing non-stop in their head, they turn into a complete idiot.
A few years ago I was playing golf with some people including a guy who is native Indian. I happened to hole out a 30 yard wedge shot, and this guy unleashed an insane torrent of claims that I had made this shot because of white privilege and lessons only available to white men. I don’t think he was kidding. It did not drive me to suicide, I just called him a dumh goof and moved on.
‘It’s name was, Kike? Seriously?’
yeah, really; and he’s got a sister named Jewdi...
You can bet she’s doing this to a lot of people she hates
Poor guy he though he was living in the sane world of his youth.
Be interested to know your opinion of this prior case brought against Rutgers student Dharun Ravi (Tyler Clementi suicide) and how it compares to the tragedy being discussed here:
https://patch.com/new-jersey/ridgewood/teen-died-suicide-bullying-over-sexuality-killed-him
Unless that was sarcasm or a joke, it is DEI as in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.
I agree.
Not so unusual.
“Kike” (KEE-kay) Hernandez.
Shortstop for the Boston Red Sox.
Or take the offenders and not commit suicide. :-)
no idea who this is.............
This is a good example of you can't "judge a book by it's cover". She's good looking outside, but ugly inside. Of course you find the reverse: Ugly outside but beautiful within.
If you are going to kill yourself over distress caused by insane, woke DEI red guards, wouldn’t it at least make sense to take the offenders with you when you go?
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Excellent observation!
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