Racial Discrimination

One day I went to Bloomingdales with my cousins and boyfriend to look for a birthday present for my uncle. We were walking around looking for something to buy when my boyfriend pointed out that a worker was constantly following us around pretending to organize clothes. I just told him to ignore it and continue looking and he pointed out again. That's when I just told him we were used to it and that I wasn't surprised at all. Now that I look back on what I said, I find it sad that I would say that I was used to something like that. This brings it back to all the civil rights documentaries we have seen this year, like how in Selma they were discriminated against and all the hardships they faced (obviously my experience wasn't as extreme). This experience personally shows me how little things like following someone around a store is considered racial profiling and discrimination.