 But you're not really Asian, that was the best comeback line this person could come up with when trying to tell me that I wasn't qualified to speak out against racism. I guess being adopted into a Caucasian family had stripped me of my Korean identity in their mind. Racism is painful, but maybe if we spent more time listening to stories of pain, we'd understand why people speak out, that it's not just on the basis of the color of their skin or of their sexual orientation or of their religious belief, but of a belief that this world needs an outlet for pain in order to heal pain.