channonyarrow

Actually, it's a big deal because for most of this country's history, people of discernibly African descent were considered subhuman, because they and other people of color still get the shaft, and this is a symbol of the progress we as a society have made. Saying it's only a big deal because people are making it a big deal completely misses the emotional investment many Americans quite understandably have in the slow but hopefully inexorable decline of racism.