Empires in General by the dozen and racism without racially defining which country or power group was responsible would not be a racist comment on its own.
I know everybody will not agree with this and I will view comment with my usual sense of humour.

"Racism is a mixture of the natural mistrust of foreigners that all nations and communities have their share of and the racism developed and fostered by the each empire in order to rule and exploit the less developed sections of the world

The latter was very much a part of my early formal education but was countered by my parents' hatred of both Empire and the idea of dividing the world int greater and lesser beings
Each Empire has been firmly placed in history's dustbin - their effects remain and are now used by politicians to gain and retain power and wealth"