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Source: South Bend Tribune, Ind.自存倉July 14--Oliver Jackson always loved music."I've got 30 years in the music industry," Jackson, who used to live in South Bend and now resides in Indianapolis, says."I was a B-boy -- a break dancer -- when everybody said that rap music was just a fad."Break dancing, like any dance style, can be risky and Jackson got hurt. He soon turned to playing records as a DJ.Jackson says he continued spinning records through high school and after joining the military."I wanted to do something that I could use when I got out of the military, and I just loved music," Jackson recalls. "It is a form of communication."Jackson relocated to South Bend in the early 1990s after leaving the military. He mentored youth and coached football during his time in South Bend.These days, Jackson and a group of artists who include his son, Marquise, use music to combat bullying.Jackson and the other artists hold concerts and seminars to educate adults and empower children as a part of the Bully Basher Tour.The tour visited Michiana twice since early May, according to Jackson.Jackson says he came up with the Bully Basher Tour while traveling through the heartland with performers."When you go through small towns, you hear and see things," Jackson says. "We stop and get gas and there is always some local newspaper story about an honor society student who commits suicide."Jackson started talking to other members of the tour迷你倉新蒲崗and he realized that he was among many who had been bullied as children.Jackson says also one of his children experienced bullying in school. His daughter, a kindergartner, was attacked by two classmates, he says.Fortunately, Marquise has not been bullied. However, his presence on the Bully Basher Tour is important because he can relate to the young students."With him here, the kids don't see a bunch of adults talking to them or at them," Jackson says. "They see a kid who they can relate to."Jackson says there are two things that adults must learn when trying to combat bullying. He says bullying does not end when school dismisses for the day or for summer vacation."Bullying gets worse in the summer because there are no adults around," he says.He also notes that the Internet makes it easier for bullies to mentally harass their targets. Parents need to be tied in to the Web because children won't tell adults they are being bullied.Often, the only way to find out what their children are confronting is to go online, Jackson says."We use music and social media to reach kids because they are not going to talk to (adults)," Jackson says. "They are going to go on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook before they tell (their parents) what is going on."Copyright: ___ (c)2013 South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Ind.) Visit the South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Ind.) at www.southbendtribune.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉出租