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==Discrimination==
[[Discrimination]] takes place the moment a person acts on prejudice. This describes those moments when one individual decides not to give another individual a job because of, say, their race or their religious orientation. Or even because of their looks (there's a lot of hiring discrimination against "unattractive" women, for example). You can discriminate, individually, against any person or group, if you're in a position of power over the person you want to discriminate against. White people can discriminate against black people, and black people can discriminate against white people if, for example, one is the interviewer and the other is the person being interviewed.
==Racism==
That's the mechanism we call "racism" -- the interacting social, political, and economic rule systems that all discriminate, either overtly ([[racial profiling]], for example) or covertly (i.e., white majority governments redrawing district voting lines so that black majority areas are politically split up and don't have the electoral power to vote in black candidates;
Racists would say:
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Blacks voting for Blacks because of the color of their skin in [[Black racism]]. But as is explained here, Blacks can not be racist.
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or, white-run banks using zip codes as a criteria for excluding people who apply for loans, <blockquote>these . These are scientifically developed criteria to discern who can pay back the loan. The world wide [[pc:subprime mortgage crisis]] was actually caused by the non-performing loans that Banks had to give to minorities that did not qualify for loans.</blockquote> , and just "happening" to exclude all the majority black neighborhoods in a city, a practice called "red-lining"). One could go on for hours about these various mechanisms, and I'm sure you can think of plenty on your own which discriminate against blacks, Hispanics, "Arab-looking" people, Native Americans, & and so on.
==Reverse Racism==
