I can relate with the black man

In the beginning of essay, "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space" by Brent Staples, the story, I identified my self with the black man. I am a Mexican woman and people assume that I am an employ of a store. When I go buy my grocery at a store there is always someone that ask me where they can find certain items within the store assuming that I work there just because they see me as a Mexican woman. I believe that stereotypes happen with gender and with race, but they have more to do with race because if the white woman had seen a white man walking behind her she would have not panic as much as she did with the black man. My identification with the black man influenced my reading in the way that people are so judgmental by the race more than by the gender.