CHECKMATE, Commie Scum.
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In other words,
America is NOT systemically racist
Correct. There are individuals who are truly racist, there are pockets of areas where people of X race are not so comfortable around Y race because the crime of Y race is high in the area. In some cases the people uncomfortable are blacks because of Hispanic crimes, in some cases it's whites because of black crimes, in other cases its Hispanics because of white crimes.
But that is not intrinsically racism, that is a product of their environment and the reality is that our environment shapes us. If you get stung by a bee as a child, you are probably going to be scared of bugs. If you get hit by a car, you are probably going to be uncomfortable around cars.
The left doesn't seem to grasp this concept, however, and will also try to jump through hoops to make it seem like massive black crime rates aren't happening which makes it harder for normal every day blacks in those areas because people are downright scared or uncomfortable.
And that's not all areas; indeed that really only happens as you get closer to the cities and the surrounding suburbs.
People don't hate the other races just because they're unsure who is worth trusting and they feel they have to take extra care around them.
But people will start to hate them if criminals are held up and victims are suppressed (e.g. George Floyd vs. David Dorn, or the one who was gunned down in front of his own business for supporting Trump, etc.)
That's not what systemic racism means. Systemic racism means the systems that are in place disproportionately affect certain races, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not.
You mention "massive black crime rates" near cities, but that this isn't a problem outside cities. Have you ever wondered why that might be the case? If you have, you might have learned about redlining, mortgage discrimination, or white flight, which are examples of racism embedded in the systems that controlled the choices available to people. That's what's meant by "systemic racism", not that any individual in the system is personally racist.
It turns out that America has many such systems, which is why people say that the country as a whole is "systemically racist". This really shouldn't be a big surprise, given that it was explicitly racist for at least 100 years during slavery.
Mostly because those have nothing to do with the definition of the term, which is what we're talking about.