You're a more trusting and charitable soul than I. I think the reason "racism" is defined as it was by Jamelle Bouie is so that he can say, in the usual motte-and-bailey fashion, that racism is a European invention.https://twitter.com/ad_captandum2/status/1003221183817535489 …
I guess it's the usual "you think you redeemed yourselves by coming up with X? Well here's why X is actually the most racist thing ever!"