My name is Lisa Fisher. I had never been discriminated against in all my life. Maybe I was and didn't know it. I always knew that racism existed, but I didn’t know what it felt like until I started fighting myself and destroying everyone and everything around me. <br> <br> My husband and I struggled, but we enjoyed our life. He had experienced discrimination for many years and said, “Whenever you see racism, you have to root it out and show it for what it is.” That always stuck in my head. As an African American woman, I never saw people as a color or a race until the day I was hired to work as a home health aide at Mermaid Manor in late August of 2010. <br>