I do not like that definition. People are always going to make assumptions about people based on what they know about their culture. You might as well say that assuming a Chinese person speaks Chinese is racist. Although if they live in america they have to learn english, I assume that too. For people living in America, to assume that a Japanese American knows something about samurais, should not be considered a bias, it's just something you know about where they came from, it does no harm to them. If you start talking about samurais when you're talking to a Chinese person, well, aren't you embarrassed, but I'm sure they will forgive you... maybe... they may snap at you... People are different and its a fact, it's not a bad thing. I do not have any "bias". I do not like anything about racism. I do not like the way it lumps people together into categories that may have nothing to do with their culture, I don't like the way it separates people in a low class manner. If there was once a white man and a black man, I am not the white man, just because of the color of my skin, because I was never a master. If I was ever black because of the color of my skin, I was never black, because I was never a slave. Racism is narcissistic and selfish, it feeds off of how you look and your sense of self importance, it is cultish, only your people are important. We all need to be a united people, and racism divides. There will always be oppression, and right now, there is oppression of everyone in america, a system is deliberately set up to keep people down. But hey. Maybe that's just the way the world is. There have always been times when you feel, the system is keeping me down. When international relations go into the peasantry, that's all we're talking about. And I would argue that we are a united people, if we are all U.S citizens, hey, one of the things i like about america is the diversity of food, are you saying it's a racial bias of me to assume a mexican friend can't take me to a great mexican food place? I am sick and tired of this overly offended by bullshit bullshit. The only white man and black man I ever want to see are on a chess board. Worrying about racism in the way you're interacted with is like saying, we have to be overly polite like we're constantly living in a fucking embassy doing important work with foreign relations, well fuck that, if you're my neighbor or my classmate, I'm going to treat you like my friend and I don't give a fuck what race or what country you're from, you heard? Are we clear? 

It is undeniable that the rich and powerful classes tend to have a disconnection from the lower classes, but to point out racism as the only manifestation of this is picking and choosing.

Both parties have racist people in them.

Both parties are corrupt and not actually working for the people.

They are puppets in a system that makes people feel like they have a choice, they don't. Our elected officials are not there to represent us, they are their to support whoever paid for them to get placed in power.