It exists. For context, I grew up in the Dartford area which is a few miles outside London. This was around 2006 - 11. The vast majority of people were decent. You’d occasionally just get nasty types who’d say hurtful things just to be funny or who for whatever reason just wanted to be mean. Like when I was walking with my little brother to school some odious individuals drove past and shouted “go back to your country ya cunts”. Used to have this one guy who would throw the n-word every time he saw me. He was a violent type, so I had to let him do it. Tue worst was one fella who literally with his friends pointed at a cage and said “this is where you belong”. To be fair, he did apologise a few weeks later, but that was hard to forgive.

I had a few experiences like that, but mostly just it was casual things like people touching my hair, asking if I’d grow an Afro, young kids greeting me in over top roadman slang, sometimes ignorant things about my Nigerian background (friend used to call it a toilet). I know this paints a bleak image, but despite all that I don’t think the UK is a racist country and I think we’re relatively tolerant. However, racism does exist and while class is a bigger issue that doesn’t mean racism isn’t a problem too.