I agree with you. I have met some extremely successful /wealthy people in the Bay Area that are racist too. Racism is anything used to classify by race. There is positive racism and negative racism, both are damaging. For example "Asian people are good at math" is positive racism but obviously a broad statement that is not true. When we visit my wife's family in the Philippines everyone thinks I'm a rich white guy which I am not, more "positive racism".

My friends great grandpa had a pine tree farm in Georgia and would need seasonal help. This had to be back in the 1940's give or take. He would drive to the black area of town and ask "Any of you n*ggers want to work?". Back then that word wasn't considered slanderous and his grandpa was a really small seemingly nice man who was only about 5'6" and 130lbs but nothing changes the fact that he was singling them out and had just adopted a racist vocabular from his family and friends but not so much the racist ideas. His grandpa never said anything bad about black people and actually praised them for being hard workers but he would call them the n word. Not good. Racism has many forms. A lot of racism is learned. Watch kids under the age of 5 play if you have children and you know they dont care at all about race. Its taught or passed down in most cases or a product of fear of the unknown.

I've met many people in my career over the years that seem like moderately intelligent nice people and then they'll just say some backwards of the wall thing that makes you feel like you're in the twilight zone. Ive also dealt with a lot of people who are pure trash and make it no secret. Life is strange. People are strange.