"but, but, but, children are starving in Africa! how can your suffering be important?"
Yeah, I get really tired of that false equivalence bullshit. How bad things are elsewhere doesn't make it any more tolerable here - and I have to say I was astonished, when we got to the US 8 years ago, how entrenched and endemic racism still is here, how central it is to every aspect of social structures.
Our introduction to this was a few weeks after we arrived in Arkansas, to find a woman had a cross burned on her lawn, to try and terrify her...because she had mixed-race children ?!? ... that's 2008.
(https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-arkansas-men-sentenced-civil-rights-charges-cross-burning-conspiracy)
