You May Be More Racist Than You Think

..according to Kawakami, et al (via CNN).

But a comment from the CNN article struck me: "Why do they never study racism from the other direction? Why is it always white to black and not black to white?"

and this one: "Where is the study about racism by black people against white people, Jewish people, hispanic people, or Asian people? What does this prove? Only white people are racist? It seems that they may have wanted to study the reverse scenario as well."

Here is my reply (and my usual reply to this line of reasoning):
There is a difference between racism and discrimination. yes, any group can be discriminatory against another group. but racism is a system of oppression and privilege that includes interpersonal discrimination, institutionalized inequalities, and a culture around it that has been designed (overtly or through the tyranny of small decisions) to continuously reinforce the unequal status quo. Racism is power plus prejudice. Discrimination is just prejudice.