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As I've stated above, it's about treating one person differently than others where the difference is skin color (or other immutable characteristic). Whether purposeful or not, it is an indication of innate racism. It isn't to necessarily to shame or attack them, but to correct (preferably on your own) innate differential treatment of others based on characteristics they can't control. You can't fix an issue you aren't aware of after all.
Not making eye contact is not an issue if it's consistent between characteristics that aren't wrong to have different feelings about, such as treating family different than strangers. It is an issue when, again, it's based on characteristics such as race.
We could pretend that these issues don't exist and not work to correct them. That would be an option, where some people would be treated poorly for no reason. We could also (like this case) work to solve these issues and some people will be treated worse for a reason. Both have some issues, but at least the latter is trying to improve outcomes. Sure, it might make things worse for certain people (in particular, people who deserve worse outcomes because they don't tolerate others, so should not be tolerated), but the end goal is better at least.
You brought up another issue here - we would have people who are shy and generally uncomfortable around strangers that would have it assumed that their racism is causing them to act in a specific way, creating problems.
Which would be the best thing to do: to actively oppose racism in our personal lives and to support laws that treat everybody equally, but also to not try to [socially] police microaggressions.
The act of policing microaggressions does more harm than good, IMO.