Was Linnaeus racist or not?

Thanks to Linnaeus that he created such an easy naming system. Congrats to him for writing all those books and being a good botanists. (For more info about what he has done: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus) However, I do really think that he was kind of racist when he divided Homo sapiens into different varrieties. Maybe, he is not racist as a person (because I would not know how he actually feels like and think as) but his ideas towards grouping people would lead to racism so easily. It is obvious that he sides with European and it does make sense why he would when we consider he is a Swedish botanist. He sounds so racist when he says that he Americans are regulated by custom, Asiatics are governed my opinion, Africans are governed by caprice whereas European people is governed by laws. In that case Europeans look like the only race that plays with the rules and they are the peaceful lawful ones. Therefore they would look more modern. The reason why he classifies it in this way might be that they have slaves from different ethnics in their country and they just want to have a scientific evidence to feel that it is ok to hold the slaves.