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Racism, Individual and Systemic

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Racism is prejudice and discrimination used to maintain that one racial group is superior, operating both through individuals and through routine institutional procedure.

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A single racist remark is individual racism; a court system that hands down harsher sentences to defendants of color through routine guidelines is systemic racism.

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Systemic racism can produce unequal outcomes without any participant intending an unequal result.