A 22-year-old recent graduate from Missouri convinced the dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster to update its definition of racism.
"I kept having to tell them that definition is not representative of what is actually happening in the world," she told CNN. "The way that racism occurs in real life is not just prejudice it's the systemic racism that is happening for a lot of black Americans."
Mitchum said she sent her email on a Thursday night and got a reply from editor Alex Chambers the next morning. Peter Sokolowski, an editor at large at Merriam-Webster, told CNN that their entry also defines racism as "a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles" and "a political or social system founded on racism," which would cover systematic racism and oppression.
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