Racism has always been one of the social stigmas of human society. The existence of visible differences in people’s appearances created the basis for the distribution of populations into groups depending on the color of their skin and some other features. Unfortunately, it was not the only consequence of the given division, as the ideas of the inferior and superior character of particular races emerged. It gave rise to the centuries of discrimination, segregation, and humiliation of individuals who were in vulnerable positions. Today, with the development of the humanistic paradigm, there are many attempts to eliminate this negative tendency and explain the nature of these ideas. Kwame Anthony Appiah also offers his own vision of this issue and tries to create the theoretical framework for its better understanding, which is fundamental for the successful avoidance of these inhumane practices in the future. First of all, in his work, Appiah assumes that there are some propositions that result in the appearance of various forms of racism. Among them is the idea that “there are heritable characteristics, possessed by members of our species, that allow us to divide them into a small set of races“ (Appiah, 2010, p. 635). The existence of these features preconditions the expectations of their behaviors in accordance with the stereotypes (Kendi, 2017). This racialism, as Appiah calls it, influences our informal classifications and how we interact with people (Appiah, 2010). In such a way, it becomes one of the perquisites for the appearance and development of undesired, discriminative attitudes, and determinations. The main problem of this perspective is that it provides moral qualities and the model of their distribution across races, which makes some of them dominant (Appiah, 2010). The give paradigm also preconditions the emergence of the question of minority races, which possess some insignificant qualities (Bonilla-Silva, 2017). It results in the creation of an environment that contradicts the ideas of tolerance. In his cogitations about discrimination, Appiah also offers the terms extrinsic and intrinsic racism. He states that there is a dangerous view that other races are morally inferior because of the existence of morally inferior characteristics among them (Appiah, 2010). In other words, the qualities mentioned above and that serve for the differentiation of races are used to segregate people into categories and precondition various attitudes to them. The given idea lays the ground for the appearance of multiple discriminations because of the emergence of so-called minor races that can be treated in different ways (Golash-Boza, 2014). At the same time, accepting the modern idea that all people are equal, it also undermines the concept of social justice and relations between people in society (Atkins & Oglesby, 2018). If we presuppose that some people have features that are not so important as ours, the reason for the biased attitude to them emerges. It results in further cultivation of racism and its existence as a part of people’s worldview. As for the extrinsic racism, Appiah offers his cogitations about it. He states that this form of discrimination “has usually been the basis f