Very interesting. As a white male, the closest experience I have is living for a couple years in Venezuela and Chile. Chile not so much, but in Venezuela I was frequently harassed with anti-American phrases. But I wasn't a child so it didn't affect me the same, I knew that back in my own country I would be respected and fit in perfectly and that I would head back soon enough, and I was never accused of a crime (other than being accused of being in the CIA by passers-by).

Is this experience even close?

I might point out that I also felt discriminated against when trying to get scholarships, since such a huge percent of the help goes to non-whites or those in lower income classes. As a middle class white boy wanting to go into Computer Science I got almost nothing. In theory this counter-discrimination is supposed to make up for the racial discrimination to try to level out the economic privileges. I'd really like to get rid of both.

I note that since I wish discrimination did not exist I tend to pretend that it does not. Perhaps this is part of the problem. But I have never called anyone a racial slur and I try to counter any racial biases I find in my own thinking. So I don't feel like I'm part of the problem.