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Colloquially, racism means prejudice based on the perception of someone's "race" (ie: ancestry, physical characteristics such as skin tone).
That covers things like assuming a black man knows about gangs and rap based only on their skin color.
There's also the institutional level where individuals might not really think or feel anything about race, but it still is a factor. Stuff like closing polling places in predominantly black neighborhoods, or individual police officers who are given a quota and only assigned to black neighborhoods. Housing in the US has a long history intersecting with the idea of race. "The Color of Law" was a pretty good read on it.
Wikipedia puts it nicely:
To a back person:
"Hey! You're from Philly? I know a black guy from Philly, named Pete. Do you know him?"
I've honestly heard people say stupid shit like that, multiple times in my life.