I mean he was, but that shouldn't erase the fact that he was a brilliant leader and just what Britain needed to resist the Nazis. From Wikipedia: "While some critics have equated Churchill's imperialism with racialism, belief in the racial superiority of the British was widespread during Churchill's lifetime, even among liberals and socialists, and Churchill as a man of his time also subscribed to such ideas. Addison has argued that it is misleading to describe him as a racialist in a modern context because the term as used now bears 'many connotations which were alien to Churchill'."

And he's in stark contrast, it's worth noting, to FDR, who:

-Blocked Republican anti-lynching legislation;

-Snubbed four-time Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens after the 1936 Olympics;

-Kicked American citizens out of the country who were of Mexican descent;

-Refused to accept Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis; and

-Created actual concentration camps for Japanese Americans.

A real peach. But hey, the New Deal and such.