Discovering Race Bias While Shopping for Glasses
3 min readJul 22, 2019
We had no idea our daughter was having trouble seeing at a distance.
At her annual eye exam, we were shocked when they told us she needed glasses. Her vision had always been 20/20. Now a teenager, her eyes were changing, and she developed myopia which is more commonly known as nearsightedness. My daughter is Asian, and according to the National Eye Institute, East Asians show the…