Certainly ashamed of this, but when I was in my early 20's, I was driving my girlfriend in the sports car I had just bought. We were on vacation in a rural county, and I foolishly "peeled out". To make things far more shameful, I had been drinking beforehand. I likely wasn't completely impaired beyond my poor judgment, but now I know better than to even think of getting behind the wheel after anything more than one drink. But I was more foolish then.
Anyhow, a sheriff's deputy happened to be sitting in his car behind some trees, saw me whip around the corner, tires squealing, and pulled me over. He asked me what I was up to, and I said I was just being dumb, showing off for my girlfriend. He did the usual of asking for my license/registration. He asked my if I had been drinking, and I gave him the usual (lame) answer of "1 or 2 beers." Then he let me go with a warning.
This is total speculation on my part, but I can't imagine being let off with a warning if I wasn't a young white male with my white girlfriend in that rural county. By all rights I should have been given a ticket at least, and a field sobriety test and possibly locked up. But (lucky for me) I was treated with a "boys will be boys" mentality. Coming from an urban area where I lived, I thought at the time, "That's it?! I'm sure lucky I'm not black/Hispanic/other." Or maybe that was just a really gracious sheriff's deputy and he would have treated a minority the same way...