I think it’s unfortunate that the word “racism” is used both for evil things like apartheid or Jim Crow, and for unconscious bias. Especially when the bias isn’t even to view certain races negatively, just differently.

I mean it doesn’t seem like people tended to label some races with negative labels, just that they labeled their race at all, and didn’t do that for white people. At least in the example.

I don’t think it is useful to lump these two concepts together.