white privilege question #2

The condition I have experienced from the list on page two in White Privilege : Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack is number four “I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.” Most of the time this isn’t a problem because I shop mostly where other people of my race or other “minorities” shop at, but the problem comes into play when I go shop in the more “whiter” neighborhoods and shops. I don’t get judged or followed because of my skin color, it happens because the way I dress and talk and music I listen to, they automatically know that I “don’t belong” and give me dirty looks or rush me to buy and even have gotten to the extent where I was pulled out of the store by my hoodie because the manager said “I was taking to long looking around.” My reaction was to go to the police officer that was in the pizza shop next door and report the guy but even the cop didn’t want to do anything and I assume because the two people I was with and me looked like we didn’t belong. I ended up calling my uncle who is Deputy Inspector in the NYPD and got the cop and the store owner and employees in trouble. Its not fair to judge people because of any reason because you never know who they are or who they know