"when you ASSUME you make an ass out U and ME"

So basically I had a little experience yesterday that opened my eyes and it really made me want to write.

I was having dinner yesterday at a restaurant with some friends and as the busboy came over to my side to clear my plate I COINCIDENTALLY picked up my phone the same time he grabbed my plate. Then he looked at me and said "Your cell phone wasn't going anywhere... I have a cell phone of my own". The man happened to also be Black. Immediately I was dumbfounded I quickly responded "I didn't think that my phone was going anywhere". The man basically thought that I thought low enough of him to think that he was a thief. I was immediately offended who was this man to think that I was a judgmental person? In the first place I am already very conscious of how I put myself out there and because I am very conscious about what people think of me (yeah its bad but I can't help it). So I wouldn't ever prejudge someone because I believe that everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt. The simple fact that this man thought that I was being racist or prejudge of him based on his look when were THE SAME RACE just baffled me. He and I are one in the same, I know there are many things that do make us different but his exterior is what matches mine what people use to categorize us. I could never just label him a thug or theif just because of what he looks like. His whole statement just didn't make sense to me. His action just really made me think of how much us as a society are too pessemistic of others. Why? Why couldn't he have thought I was just picking up my phone to make a call or send a text? The whole situation just really hurt my heart because I really mean well but it just seems that sometimes there are just gonna be those people who are gonna think the worst. . .