Tom was a white cat and his classmates would always paint him black teasing and excluding him feeling hurt Tom went home crying to his mother his mother deeply saddened washed off the paint in a bath even though their teacher warned the other students to stop they continued with their behavior when his mother went to the school to complain the other cats threw black paint at both her and Tom making her leave in tears then Tom had an idea he painted himself black so he wouldn’t stand out anymore