No tweet idiotic or otherwise from the President of the United States mentioning a tragedy. [Update] Donald Trump Tweeted about the tragedy, initially claiming that 138 million people had been killed, because the President is incapable of proofreading a 42 word tweet.
$0 sent by billionaires in the immediate aftermath of a terrorist attack to rebuild churches or help people recover after at least 290 people were murdered and hundreds more were injured.
America has a people of color problem, and it's not just domestic, it's international. After the 2015 terrorist attacks in France, I remember seeing my Facebook feed covered with red, white, and blue filters, showing support for a country rocked by a coordinated attack from extremists. Just last week as Notre Dame burned, my Facebook feed was covered with people's pictures of the church...I'm fairly certain I saw a Notre Dame filter (or at least a bootleg version that someone managed to create). But yet with 290 people dead and 500 injured after an Easter Sunday attack, there is hardly a chirp about it.
This isn't a matter of the media not caring...the news about the attack is on the front page of the NYT and Washington Post. Even Fox News has it as part of its four main articles, right alongside an article about Game of Thrones. This is a matter of the general population of America not caring about non western countries, and more specifically non predominantly white countries.
This is what makes people of color feel like they don't matter, because when tragedies strike people that look like me, America seems to miss it, every single time. America cares more about the color of stained glass windows of a church backed by billions of dollars, than the lives of 800 people of color devastated by a terrorist attack.
No Filters for Sri Lanka
