While Deborah states that “I have no idea what it’s like to be a person of color in our country” I do not think one must live in another’s skin, gender, religion, or culture to be able to empathize After all. I do not know what it is to be a woman in America, yet I know they make 71 cents on the dollar for every man, have a glass ceiling in most corporations, and generally pay more for medical care. I can empathize with those gross inequities and fight like hell to change them so that my daughter and her daughter will not need to live that travesty.