Systemic in example sentence

I realized that my story stood in for all those who were expected to pick themselves up by their bootstraps, even if they didn't have any boots; that my organization stood in for all the structural, systemic help that never went to Harlem or Appalachia or the Lower 9th Ward; that my voice stood in for all those voices that seemed too unlearned, too unwashed, too unaccommodated.

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So it's systemic across the entire country.

One in three houses foreclosed is not a crisis of personal responsibility; it is systemic.

PV: And second, the mind gap: an inability to understand the larger, systemic ways in which racism operates.

But Lisa knows she can pass as white so she benefits from huge systemic and interpersonal privileges, and so she spends every day grappling with ways that she can leverage that white privilege for social justice.

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