“O, c’mon. Has anyone, whatever the color of their skin, not been mistaken to be a sales clerk or waitress (etc)?”
Yes, just yesterday I was at “Staples” looking for something and asked a young lady, who was talking on her cell where an item was, I thought she was a store employee, but she said no and, I apologized.
I have a sister-in-law that complained for years about discrimination for being Hispanic. It stopped when she married a white guy with a Germanic last name. Truth be told, she was full of $hit from the start.