To add on to my post Re: systemic racism. Even if the system is created to be non-racial biased, injustice and inequality exist in this nation state that pledges to "build a democratic society, based on justice and equality".
It is not the system, however, that brought injustice and inequality to us. It is the people's prejudice and biases that is ingrained in our psyche that we still see the world we live in as a jungle of 'us versus them'. It is exactly what Hobbesian social contract theory describes about human nature (solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short) and how social contract develops from anarchy to democracy or communism or others.
We all agree to an invisible social contract to live in a democratic society but our human nature never really changed. We are still selfish and self-important. We still see the world through the lenses of our self-righteousness. And we still hold on to the unspoken belief that this is a dog-eat-dog world and it is the survival of the fittest.
A roman addage goes "homo homini lupes", or "man is a wolf to man". Which, despite our best efforts, is still true to varying extents. And in turn it leads to injustice and inequality because we all did what is right in our own eyes.
Racial biases and inequality exist. So do social biases and inequality. Simply because Hobbes was right about human nature. We see each other different and we think/believe there's a need to self-protect.
THIS is why racism is still a problem and why different people of different social standing get different punishment for a similar crime.
So I reiterate, we shouldn't be pointing at the Government to shoulder the blame for "systemic" injustice and inequality. We are all to blame for all the social injustice and inequality that exist in this jungle of civilisation. That the blood is on all of our hands when the poor or the minorities suffer.