Then, Democrats used people of African ancestry on Southern plantations to convert cotton seeds into bales of cotton for their benefit; now Democrats use people of African ancestry in Urban plantations to convert (other people's) dollars into votes for their benefit.
“Systemic racism” is entirely a policy of the Democrat party, and one of the means by which they enforce it is by “affirmative action”. Some selection council of “experts” sets up to choose “winners” and “losers”. The intent from the first was to break through some “barrier” that had grown up, through the recognition of merit as a criteria to move to higher things.
Merit is dismissed, and the “disadvantaged” are artificially put into an environment where few are prepared to survive. Of those that do, some would probably have succeeded on merit already, but then a number of the less competent are also hustled through, by watering down the requirements for gaining advanced degrees, or making up new “degrees” which emphasize “life experiences”.
The personnel manager does not differentiate between the individuals who gained their expertise through merit, and those who were simply endowed with a similar but meaningless “degree”. EVERYBODY, merited or not, gets shoved into the same cohort, which is “assumed” to be less competent than the employees who were not affirmative action. This is the soft discrimination of “low expectations”.
Thus the discrimination becomes “systemic”, and since it breaks along racial lines, is to be “systemic racism”.