It's not "IS not important"... it's "SHOULDN'T be important".

Bigotry, hatred, and violence, whether explicit or less obvious (voting rights, bias in many services etc) is the problem that some us unfortunately continue and the rest of us want to end.

The problem is that this country has an extremely long history being obsessed with race, mainly by systematically stripping away the humanity of anyone considered nonwhite. This was most prominently to black people, to the point where they were literally property to wealthy whites, and once they stopped being property it was common to extrajudicially hunt them down and kill them in many primarily white communities for things like staying overnight.

In america there are black people alive who weren't allowed to vote because of their race.

Given the history of race in america it makes total sense that america is still grappling with race while also there is significant pushback against that grappling.

> Thanks for the constructive reply. I wasn’t aware of such default assumptions.

Perhaps you should put some effort into self-education and understand the context of race and racism in America before making qualitative statements about things you seem to not even grasp the basics of.