Well, maybe it is racist in the sense that it's discriminating by race. But discrimination based on race isn't necessarily a bad thing in and of itself--prejudice is.
As an example: I'm a physician. We calculate the kidney function differently for african americans vs everyone else. That's because there are physiologic differences between races, and it's anti-science to deny that. Another example: given the same BMI (25), african americans have less visceral fat than whites, and asians have the most, which means that the "healthy" BMI targets might be different depending on what race you are. It'd be bad medicine to be blind to race--there are demonstrable differences between races and acknowledging them (racism) is not necessarily a bad thing, but we get into trouble when we conflate racism with prejudice.
Every race has ingroup preference, on the whole. Experiments on babies have shown this to be true. That's called being human, not racist.
Well, maybe it is racist in the sense that it's discriminating by race. But discrimination based on race isn't necessarily a bad thing in and of itself--prejudice is.
As an example: I'm a physician. We calculate the kidney function differently for african americans vs everyone else. That's because there are physiologic differences between races, and it's anti-science to deny that. Another example: given the same BMI (25), african americans have less visceral fat than whites, and asians have the most, which means that the "healthy" BMI targets might be different depending on what race you are. It'd be bad medicine to be blind to race--there are demonstrable differences between races and acknowledging them (racism) is not necessarily a bad thing, but we get into trouble when we conflate racism with prejudice.