proto-racist noun 2adjective 1forms 3 noun2 •A person who displays protoracist attitudes or behaviors. •A person who has the potential to become a racist.This also means that one cannot work with the assumptions that all 'whites' are necessarily and only proto-racists, or that all 'blacks' are necessarily and always victims. — 2014 adjective1 •Characteristic of proto-racism. formsproto-racists · more proto-racist · most proto-racist