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Show me one law that is racist? I bet you can't. At one time it was common. Ie. Where you could sit on a bus.
If anything we now have laws that are the opposite and support minorities.
man, I guess the annual (at least) police killings of unarmed black people (including at least 2-3 children) just didn't happen?
Do you know what the definition of systemic racism means? I think few people here do. It means there are laws and policies that are racist.
You will always have racist cops and neighbors and teachers. That is not systemic. That is just shitty people. Once you identify them and can prove it, then you can take action. Some always slip thru.
If the system does not prevent, stop, or punish the racist constituent actors (cops, neighbors, teachers), is it not racist? Is it not systemic racism to not stop individual acts of racism, especially when they're performed by agents of the state (e.g., cops, lawmakers, judges, teachers)? Just because it's not a top-down demand by the state of "you, agent of the state, must act racist" does not mean it's not systemic racism.
There is no such thing as a system as such. It's just people. If the members are racist, and their collective doesn't do anything to address (or even occasionally rewards) that behavior, the system is racist.