I visited the Sweeney store excited to purchase my textbooks for my first graduate class. When I arrived in the store, an employee told me I could not take my purse into the store. She said I had to place it on a rack by the door. I told her it was my purse, not a book bag. She said I still had to leave it. I refused and asked her to find the books I needed. A man came into the store with very large backpack walked past her and headed to the service desk. He was was not told to drop his bag at the door. Nor was another woman with her purse on her shoulder who was looking up her class schedule on the computer. This was a definite case of racial profiling. I will never again shop at Sweeneys and I will spread the word of this vile act of racism that I encountered.