Section I: Observation
In the day- to-day life, everybody gets to experience different events or situations, be it good or bad. One such experience is getting to meet with a person with albinism complications. I have on a number of occasions been witness to Albinos being subjected to a lot of discrimination by members of the society because they have a different color of skin. Many are the times that they will be sidelined and denied many rights and privileges such as securing good jobs. In some community set ups, the situation is more severe for the albinos since they are denied access to even public amenities and services such as transport, medical services, and even be denied entry in schools of their choice. I felt so offended on one particular occasion where a shopkeeper refused to serve an albino and even sent them away from the shop.
The media has also highlighted the plight of albinos. According to information on the media, many albinos are killed and their body parts used for certain rituals by people who believe in witchcraft and rituals. All these make me feel that the albinos are treated unfairly and are not accorded their due respect, since they are human just like anybody else.
Section II: Analysis
The society has all the reason to treat the albinos fairly and with all due respect. Further on, the media has been instrumental in letting people know about the condition, and how it affects the lives of those living with it. However, since normal people feel that they are better, they deny the albinos an opportunity to access the best that the community has to offer, making them be the disadvantaged group all round. Members of the society should allow the albinos to be and should even go out of their way to help them out whenever they can. This is because having the condition alone is already so traumatizing, let alone having to go through the trauma and stigma that comes as a result of the bad treatment the society puts them through.
Section III: Probe for Insight
Albinos are people like the rest of the people, but for the condition that they have which is a biological condition and has no cure. However, many members of the society play dumb to existing facts about Albinism and chose to treat them cruelly and like they are any less of a human being.
Once the society has fully understood the effect that they bad treatment has on the albinos, the least they can do is accept and treat them like normal human beings. They society should also develop a system that will ensure equality of opportunities to everybody since it has been repeatedly said that being disabled is not an inability.
