The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression

I have had several incidents where I have encountered bias and prejudice. One of the memories that I do have is of an incident where there was a biased attitude or a biased opinion of me when I went to a restaurant that is located in North Dallas. Now North Dallas consists mostly of rich white people - there are not a lot of black people in this particular area of North Dallas where I was at - but I was with one of my friends and we decided to go to Chili's Restaurant to have lunch and while we were there the service from the waitress was extremely terrible and I believe that she acted that way because of our skin color and the perception that African Americans do not tip their waiters/waitresses. During this particular visit to Chili's we waited almost 20 minutes before she came over to take our drink orders and her attitude was just very bad and she acted as if we were bothering her and she didn't want to be there at work. I apologized to my friend for the worst service at this restaurant because I feel as if her rude attitude was directed towards me because I am African American and my friend was White - maybe the waitress wasn't too fond of that type of friendship between two different races.
This specific bias diminished equity by separating the love for one another or just the human kind because of the difference of race or culture. Equity is when one or the quality of something fair and impartial and the service at the time was everything but fair and impartial.
I had a lot of different feelings and emotions going on at the time but I was too busy trying to enjoy my friend since I don't get to see her as much that I simply ignored or brushed off the bad service an the waitress' attitude - I think that is what everyone needs to do when they encounter a person with a negative attitude - just ignore them, they will eventually act like they have some sense when no one feeds into their foolishness.
As I stated I think my friend and I did a great job with turning this incident into an opportunity for greater equity by ignoring her and proving to her that not all people of the African American race act loud and crazy.