CHECKMATE, Commie Scum.
( edit: 'Are they not' )
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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.