I was the victim of a home invasion, the person was looking for a dealer's house and was so out of it they came into mine. The police treated me like a criminal and never followed up - I was 22 years old living in a rundown (later condemned) home, assumptions were made.

In my teenage years I was stopped by the police 3 times because of "suspicious" behavior (one time this behavior was singing with friends, others was just it was dawn).

I have repeatedly been called a secretary by mistake when in fact I was the head engineer overseeing a utility system that supported over a million lives.

I am a white female. Do I feel there were moments when I was unfairly targeted and disrespected, yes. My goal is to withhold judgment and get to know people because those moments sucked. I don't however, try to make a case that those moments are unique to me. That there is a decent % of people in any population who have been targeted and disrespected is probably true. Sad, but true.