text: I don't like how the word "racism" has come to be equated with "racial bias". Back in the civil rights era, there were plenty of racists. These were people with a willful ideological belief in the supremacy and separateness of the white race, and a political agenda to implement and perpetuate it through legal, political, and institutional means. While such racism as an ideological belief is surely not dead, I believe that it has greatly declined.
  
  But today we are willing to call someone a "racist" when they have an unconscious racial bias. And indeed, the studies cited in the article show that that includes almost everybody. I believe that this is an unfortunate cheapening of the term "racist". I am not saying that we should not fight unconscious biases, only that there is a big difference between such biases and racism as a belief.