Rust as a first *systems* programming language

Hi guys.
I saw some discussions on the benefits and issues with Rust being a first language. I acctually have a decent amount of experiance in python, had some time playing around with Java (I acctually even liked it. Kinda feels dirty). Now, I'm starting to think of rust for some projects. However it would be the first time I am trying a systems programming language. I never really had any C, C++ experiance. Never handled allocation of memory, never really had to face race conditions, just playing around with Rust was the first time I heard about the heap and stack.
Will I loose some deeper understanding if I skip the C experiance?

Thanks in advance