[rhapsodic]

It looks like the professor pulled a jerk move, jumping to conclusions based on scant evidence. Yet the writer seems to conclude that happened because of her ethnicity, without offering any evidence to support that. Maybe the professor is just a presumptuous jerk who pulls that with students regardless of their race, sex or ethnicity.

I'm not saying that's the case, because I have no evidence either way.

[rflrob]

Maybe the professor pulls that stuff on people without conscious regard to gender, socioeconomic status, or ethnicity, but in the context of longstanding explicit and implicit discrimination, I'm not inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt that all of his students are equally likely to get called out. Ask your brown friends if they've ever been pulled out for a "random" screening by the TSA.