Racial Prejudice – Negative thoughts, feelings or beliefs about a person or group based on their ethnicity/skin colour

Prejudice is negative thoughts, feelings or beliefs about a person.

Racial - related to race - divisions of the human species.

To remember the meaning of the term Racial Prejudice, use the following mnemonic:

Your race is shown on your face and all (racial) humans can be grouped on the basis of these physical characteristics.

So, racial prejudice combines the two meanings to give:

Racial prejudice: Noticing someone's race and having negative thoughts about them.