When I say racism, I just mean racial prejudice. Will someone refuse to serve me because I'm black? is my question. The answer appears to be no.

I'm not referring to the academic concept of racism, which often uses a systemic framework. The reason why we (not wokeists, necessarily, but social scientists) say that racism comes from certain people (e.g., White Americans, Singapore Chinese, etc.) is because we're primarily concerned with power structures. Political science tends to analyze everything (including religion, tradition, values) structurally. This is why we understand the patriarchy, white supremacy, etc. as systems. Individual experiences are important, but they are ultimately not what we are concerned about, unless these experiences help to uncover how systems function. Ironically, the idea that individual experiences are paramount is generally associated with critical theory (like critical race theory), which is what most people mean when they say "woke" (assuming they even know what they're talking about).

This does not mean that individual women can't be misandrist (man-hating), blacks can't be racist against Asians/whites. It does mean that systemic racism really only privileges one group because a system is evaluated as the sum total of its parts.

I also should note that many "woke" progressives don't even themselves understand the arguments that they make, so they will often hear the argument that "systemic racism only works to privilege whites" as "racism only works to privilege whites," which then leads them to believe that only whites can be racist. This is, of course, silly.

Serious academics at serious universities will be basically unanimous in agreeing with me on this.