I felt incredibly sad reading this. Being vision-impaired since birth, I experienced plenty of verbal abuse from my peers as a child. I know how it feels to be different in a way that you can’t help. Though not a person of colour, I have a hard time understanding racism. People of colour have the the same number of eyes, fingers toes etc. We bleed in the same colour. We are all made up of body, soul and spirit. Why should someone’s way of being different make him or her not OK, not valued or not accepted? I’ve seen racism in books and in news stories. I’ve never been in situations where one of my friends was being victimized for her race. Other than giving the other person a piece of my mind, what could I really do for my friend if I were present when such a thing happened?