I will admit....I am prejudice. But that does not make me racist. I can’t help how I have come to view certain peoples. It is only through experience with them, that I have come to feel this way. Nothing I was taught. Just real life, day to day experiences. And by God, it sickens me more every day.
A reaction based on past experince cannot be racist, nor can it be called prejudice.
Prejudice means an opinion based without the benefit of experience (or, pre-judging). Since yours is based upon experience, it cannot be prejudice.
And you are not a racist either.
You've had negative experiences that have left lasting impressions. To have such a cause and effect relationship in one's brain is simply human nature. We avoid that which has caused us pain in the past.I don't think it can be called racism, nor prejudice. Just my 2 cents.