Have you noticed; the media is replacing word “racism” with the words “systemic racism”? Why?
Racism has often been described as a disease. Continuing that analogy:
a localized disease is an infectious or neoplastic process that originates in and is confined to one organ system or general area in the body, such as a gall bladder infection or an infected leg wound.
A Systemic disease affects the whole body, such as the flu or covid-19. An untreated, localized disease can sometimes spread to the entire body, becoming a systemic disease.
If racism is systemic, and the U.S population is the body, then everyone in the U.S. is a racist. If the body is only the U.S.’s White population, then racism is not systemic in the U.S.
You would think the media and all its fact checkers, would know the difference. Unfortunately for us, they rarely check themselves.
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