If they are silent when America is mass murdering blacks overseas, killing brown people across the planet, or attempting to normalize racism against Asians - Chinese people in particular - they are complicit in the very sort of deeply rooted, institutionalized racism that underpins US foreign policy and the globe-spanning industrialized injustice it represents - and the very sort of racism that manifests itself as injustice against blacks at home.
America needs genuine opposition to racism. Not opportunistic posturing.
US politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pose as dedicated to racial equality and fighting racism - yet she regularly finds herself in support of US military aggression abroad which exclusively targets nations populated by black, brown, and Asian people.
Her most recent display of supreme hypocrisy was her support of US meddling in Hong Kong - an extension of the British Empire's seizure from and subjugation of this Chinese territory.
The British Empire - of course - also pursued its foreign policy based entirely on the belief that white Westerners were superior to all others and that it was their right - even duty - to impose British "civilization" upon "heathen" races - China was no exception to this belief.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may or may not appreciate that her support for US meddling in Hong Kong helps continue this disgraceful tradition and agenda - believing instead that supporting "democracy" in Hong Kong is not simply the same brand of Anglo-American racism merely repackaged for more sensitive global audiences. But she is supporting racism, supremacy, and hegemony all the same.
Black lives will never matter as long as "Black Lives Matter" remains a hollow political slogan shouted by interests easily able to ignore or even support injustice purveyed by the US against others abroad - including blacks.
Deeply rooted racism in the US is just one of many symptoms of an overall desire for hegemony and the notions of racial, political, and cultural supremacy that underpin it. Until this is addressed, racism will continue, with only the most superficial and unsustainable efforts made to stop it.
As long as America believes it is better than all others abroad - able to justify exploitation, coercion, and even military aggression to assert itself and pursue its "interests" - racism and injustice will persist at home. The same corporate-financier interests driving US injustice abroad see the US population - white and black - as merely another market segment to use and abuse - to divide and conquer - to put under itself for its own benefit.
Black lives matter, whether they are being strangled by a racist white cop in America or being bombed by US warplanes in Libya. Once Americans can unite in both understanding and opposing this across-the-board racism and injustice, something might actually be done about it besides kicking the can down the road for a few more months until the next video of police abuse emerges online.
America will not heal its domestic hatred and divisions if it remains built entirely on projecting and profiting from hatred and division abroad. It was no coincidence that legendary champions for equality like Martin Luther King Jr. were both opposed to racism and injustice at home and ceaselessly opposed to American aggression and hegemony abroad. The two are linked by the common thread of fundamental injustice. Until they are both exposed and smashed completely, they will both continue.
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