QUite the contrary, what I have found is that passive racism can be just as insideous.
I've told this story before, but in 2012, 3 women left our department. We as a department held a going away lunch for each of them.
They were.
1) A Chinese American woman who had been with the company 9 years.
2) A black woman who had been with the company for 2 years.
3) A white intern who had been with the company for three months.
Now- guess which one of these three people the General Manager took time out of his busy schedule to attend one of these lunches with?
This same GM later let go of a black female temp so he could create a full-time position for one of his drinking buddies who had no experience in the thing he was being hired to do.
So, yeah, the cop who pulls over someone for a DWB that quickly escalates into a deadly event is a problem.
So is the white boss who subtly favors white employees.