Defining "Systemic"

 SYSTEMIC RACISM doesn't exist, according to an arguably brain dead conservative politician in of course, a red state, because the word "systemic" is a medical term and according to his laughably inane reasoning, can only be used in a medical contest, not a political or social context. Yes, he really said that, which is not surprising, but should be. Such are the intellectual depths of depravity to which contemporary conservatism has shun, in the era of Donald Trump. It would be pointless to calmly explain to him that the word "systemic" is a mere derivative of the word "system", an adjective qualifier, and can be used to refer to any system, medical, social, political, animal, plant, or mineral. For proof of the existence of systemic racism, of which there is an abundant amount, consider this: Once upon a time, not so long ago, for example,  about a hundred years ago there were hundreds of thousands of African-american farmers, who owned millions of acres of land under cultivation, all across America's fruited plain, north, south, east, and west. Today, less than ten percent of he black farmers remain in business, and less than ten percent of the land mass remains under cultivation by them. What happened? For one, the emergence of huge scale corporate agriculture. then too, for decades, especially after the end of Reconstruction and during the great depression. the overriding cause of the demise of black agriculture, however, has been officially federal government policy, systemic racism, a deliberate, organized policy within the Department of agriculture and other federal agencies to deny loans to black farmer and to deny them access to federal agricultural assistance programs of all sorts. The Department of Agriculture and federal government generally recognize this, recognizes that its policies were deliberately racist, if overtly so. in an attempt to make amends and to reverse some of the damage, the government has embarked on an agrarian affirmative action program, in which low interest loans are offered to black farmers, and black farmers are put first in line for sundry farming assistance programs. There is also a debt forgiveness program for African-American farmers to apply for. However, a federal judge recently pt a temporary stay on all this, an action taken pending many lawsuits filed by white farmers, alleging reverse discrimination racism. Behold the vigor with which white business people appeal to the judicial systemic for relief against discrimination to themselves, having been conspicuously silent when it was used against black folk!  Wonders never cease.