Systemic racism is when racist ideas and notions are embedded into laws and rules of our government or major institutions that have a lot of influence in our society.

Systemic racism can hurt people in similar ways that individual racism can hurt people. The difference is that sometimes you’re being hurt by systemic racism and you can’t necessarily point your finger at a person to blame because it is a lot of different factors and rules that may have existed for a long time before you were even born.