text: The incidents you describe certainly were examples of  "feelings of superiority" at work, a type of "privilege," or feeling of entitlement at work. And you are right, it had nothing to do with race. But that does not negate the fact that in many circumstances involving authority, white people are given the benefit of the doubt when people of color are not. My cousin in Northern Ireland experienced the same kind of discrimination as a Catholic teen shopping at a Protestant-owned business --and everyone involved was white. 
  The fact that whites are sometimes discriminated against or looked down on by other whites who have money and power does not negate the fact that MANY times blacks and people of colour are discriminated against in circumstances wherein the white person is not.
  But you won't be convinced. There are none so blind...