Systemic racism needs to be clearly defined since there is so much uncertainty and confusion about what the term really means. Is there even such a thing as systemic racism? Some argue that the idea makes no sense. The term does need clarification, but it points at an undeniable reality. Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield writes in The Wall Street Journal that the phrase incoherently “describes a society that is so little racist that no one can respectably advocate racism, yet so much