Black Men in Public Spaces

In my life, I have had no personal experience of the story “Black men and Public places”, but I have seen someone else in that situation. My father was in that situation, I was 12 years when I witnessed what happened to my father. We were at a blockbuster one day getting a couple of movies to watch together later, we got there and found some movies we wanted to see. We got to the front of the store and there was a long line of customers, so my father and I took our place in line. We were the last people in line, soon after some else was behind us on line, it was an Asian woman, I soon got bored of standing in the line so I told my dad I was going over to the stand where the magazines were. He said okay and I got out of the line, I went over to look through some magazines and turned back around to the line were dad was standing, and noticed the woman had moved a couple of feet away from my dad. She would look up at the back and forth at my dad and clutch her purse a little and the movies she was buying closer to her every minute. My dad always had a habit of rocking back and forth if he stood to long so he would step an inch back, and so would the Asian woman just so she was careful to be not to stand too close to him. While I was trying to process everything in my head of what I was saw I wanted to know why this woman acting so strange. I wanted to know did my dad smell funny. Have a contagious disease, what was the problem? At that age I couldn’t put all the pieces to that puzzle together, but now I know what it was the woman was scared or imitated by my dad because he was a black man and black men are always profiled as thieves, rude people and ignorant. I will never understand why people have to have this kind of mentality, but we are just people and not everyone is the same.