With confident eyes, I looked back at the white man, making sure that he knew that I saw him staring at me and, that I wasn’t going anywhere. That I had a right to be in that parking lot, taking up space.

He never smiled nor waved and after what must have been a good minute or more, he walked into the building. It would not have surprised me if this man had called the police.

This also happened to be during Black History Month, February 2020, adding insult to injury.