"Systemic racism" is what they call it when people are trying to be not racist, but still occasionally say racist things. It's like picking at a scab instead of letting it heal.
That's not what it is at all. Systemic racism arrests and charges black kids 7 times more often than white kids for possession of marijuana. White kids get let off with a warning. Black kids get charged.
Systemic racism is shows up when HR staff is given resumees and and candidates with "black names" get picked less often for interviews. Studies mixed up the names and the resumees, and the HR people consistently picked the candidates with "black names" less often, regardless of education, experience or skills.
It shows up in SAT tests, and in a dearth of funding for schools in poor neighbourhoods. It's in the incorporated municipalities which are created to ensure middle class tax dollars aren't going to "poor" neighbourhoods. It's guys like Ray saying his neighbours grandkids live with them so they can attend a better school. This shouldn't be allowed because their parents didn't "earn" that schools for their kids. Instead of applauding the family for wanting to give their children the best possible chance for economic success, and not ending up in crime or poverty.
Systemic racism shows up in black and brown men going from being 30,000 federal prisoners in 1980, to more than 300,000 in 2008, even as violent crime statistics have dropped throughout this time frame.