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The definition of racism will never be resolve because Blacks and whites look at differently. Blacks view racism as a institution or a set of written or unwritten rules that are unfair against a group of people. In order to have racisim, the group must have power. The apatheid and Jim Crow are both racist systems. Those who applied those rules are considered racists. Whites view racism (as which Blacks called prejudice) as a person who believes that his racial group is superior to another race. They do not believe that power is necessary. Blacks on the other hand call this prejudice because power is necessary.
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That's an interesting idea ... I would have just said that race is thinking one race is superior to another in some way. Racism is a view one person has or a system has. But then, I'm white. It never occurred to me that there was more than one possible definition of the word. This is something I'll have to think about.
Whether we want to call what the folks in the article did prejudice or racism, though, I think most of us would agree that their behavior is not appropriate in a polite society.
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