NH Business Review Disparities in economic opportunity, education, health care, and more, give us the answer June 3, 2021 Manchester NAACP President James McKim Several prominent people have made the statement that systemic racism does not exist here in New Hampshire. What does that statement mean? Is it true? What might that mean for us? To answer these questions, as with any question being examined, it may be helpful to define some terms. So, let me begin by defining some terms I think are important for this question: “race”, “prejudice”, “discrimination”, “codify”, “system”, “systemic”, “ism”, and “racism”. Then I will put the terms together to form a definition of “systemic racism”.