systemic racism

[ si-stem-ik rey-siz-uhm ]

noun

1. racism ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of systemic racism¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Marten has devoted her career to eliminating the legacy of systemic racism within public education.

From Voice of San Diego

We were able to make the Washington team a symbol of systemic racism and disenfranchisement.

From Washington Post

We produced work that shone a powerful light on the crises of our age from last year’s apocalyptic wildfires to the overdue awakening on systemic racism in America.

From Time

We can’t untangle environmental policy from systemic racism, so we have to tackle them together, from the top of the government on down.

From Outside Online

Peter himself believed that you can’t fix climate change with individual virtue any more than you can fix systemic racism that way.

From ProPublica

The conforms of systemic racism have caused a precious grasping of your blackness that oft times seeks to destroy us.

From The Daily Beast

And then, Ferguson showed us how systemic racism plays itself out.

From The Daily Beast