Telling someone in the midst of a trauma response to "get a grip" isn't going to make them do what you want. Which is what, exactly, Rudi? Do you want the author to have a dialogue with you about systemic racism and whether it exists in America? According to you, Americans are "parochial" and you are not wrong about this. We rarely leave our own borders, let alone our own continent. We are parocial af. And the other thing we are, is colonial, and puritanical. We absolutely do not understand Other-ness. White people here in America, even more than European whites, do not comprehend that there is a WORLD outside of our precious nation. Nor do we "see" immigrants, including the "immigrants" we forced here 400 years ago on slave ships, as human. Anything not-white is a percentage less than human, in fact was written into law long ago as less than human. So racism is in fact written into our system. So the author knows in her gut what she is writing about. Going to work every day, dealing with yet another murder of yet another "person of culture," as Resmaa Menakem puts it so well, just feeds that trauma loop that was put in motion 400 years ago and is still running today. Still running in her body and still running in yours and in mine, in different ways. The only way to put it on "pause" is to step away, breathe, give each other space, and try to listen to our own bodies of culture. Our own stories. And then listen to one another, if we can, very gently and compassionately.