Racism happens in the workplace, regardless of the workplace culture being implemented by higher management with the supervision of the Human Resource department. It is an up hill battle to fully eradicate racism on a world-wide level; impossible even.
To favor a certain type of person with similar ethnicity or skin color is prevalent. One would argue that this is embed within our mammalian mindset; herd mentality. Therefore, the only way forward is to be genuinely inclusive. Then again…