The incidents
Racial harassment could happen anywhere - home, school, office, streets...
It could consist of:
• Verbal abuse
• Physical assaults
• Damage to property
• Malicious phone calls
• Offensive substances in your property
• Graffiti
• Threats
• Isolation or shunning

Racial harassment could consist of any other incident which you feel is racially motivated.

SARI’s definition of racial harassment. Racially motivated action is a physical, verbal, written, or psychological attack on an individual or group, or their property, by another person or group of people, for which there is no reasonable explanation other than their race, culture, religion, ethnic origin or personal relationship with an ethnic minority person, where this is the view of the person receiving the report or the person reporting it.

The experience
If you are being racially harassed, you may be experiencing any of these:
- Fear and helplessness
- Difficulty in coping
- Stress
- Loneliness
- Frustration and anger
- Self-blame
- Lack of support
- Family breakdown
- Loss of faith in the justice system
- Desire to retaliate
- Afraid to let the children out