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Ok, if you say so.
There are almost 40 million Americans who are Black. We all know that decades of government interference has caused a segment of that population to have almost total disregard for the value of their own lives and the life of anyone who looks like them. This sub-set of self-haters lives without any regard for societal values beyond anthropological tribal values. They are powerless in almost every way except physical violence and hopeless in re a personally enriching future. These elements combine to render life cheap.
Every week a small butvocal group of freepers take delight in a circle-jerk of thinly disguised racism by finding and posting stories of this sub-culture's violence.
These freepers stroke each other with phrases like 'feral youth', 'obama's kids', savages and more. They write about their utter lack of sympathy for any victims, assuming that anybody living close enough to the thugs must be just like them.
We get to see them post things like "All blacks are suspect - they kill" and "Come on, what fifteen year old Black girl would have a name like Danielle?".
There is racism here (just look at the flap over Williams' little 5 second victory dance), not a lot but more than enough for a casual visitor to think that we are Storm Front lite.
You can feed into it, as your question clearly did, or you can reject it. But, if you choose to feed into it then expect to get some of the stink on your clothes.
I have no greater respect than for a man of color who rises above the somewhat-more-substantial challenges presented to them, both in the workplace, but more importantly, in the mind.
Yesterday, a workplace friend named Brandon -- who is a man of color -- got into a discussion about Obama. He will not vote for Obama again. Brandon is a capitalist (although not a conservative) and he despises what Obama has done, both to the economy, to the Constitution, and how Obama's narcissm and blame-others-mentality is always on display. This is a man who raised above the challenges presented to him in the battlefield of the mind. He will not vote color. He will vote the character of the man.
This is a man I already respected. I was prejudiced towards this man because of what I already observed about him. I wasn't surprised by his commentary. He is a good and honorable man.
A portion of the black community does not share this man's colorblindness. They will vote for Obama, despite the fact that Obama has been harmful to them, simply because of his color. Further, they tend to be aggressively hostile to the white man, such as myself. I have been on the receiving end of this racism.
When confronted with enough examples of this, and when being having been in more than a few situations where physical harm to me was threatened or actually executed, I have become wary unless I have definitive proof (such as a shared workplace) that the person or persons have been vetted.
Is that racism? Or is that prudence based on prior experience?