[BoiledCabbage]

I think you hit the nail here. Racism is broad term, and there is the direct individual Lovecraft style racism, and there is the other which is not as overt but has merit. An example is that idea that black is often time given connotations of brutish, evil, selfish, ...

While white is described as representing "morality, order, community, civilization, ..."

Are they the same, of course not, but we also can't say it has no significance either, as it does to always have those associations.