Had it occurred to the author that perhaps the reason that the sort of people that author smugly dismisses as "woke", are not talking about how bad people who are white might have it in Albania or Ukraine- countries where things often are bad, obviously, but the bad aspects in those countries are utterly unrelated to race- is that conditions in the US are things people here can change, while there is nothing at all anyone in the US can do to change anything for the better in any other country?

Is the author arguing that, until the US has militarily overthrown every bad government everywhere else- and that's even assuming that such an overthrow would produce a better government, which things like the current conditions in Iraq and Libya convincingly disprove- and as the "fall of communism" in Eastern Europe and Russia proves that we can't assume that ANY government that replaced that model would automatically be an improvement- nobody in the US has the right to seek any change in our own country?

If this were 1961, would the author be arguing that Jim Crow must be left unchallenged simply because, at that time, the Soviet Union and its satellite states still existed and the Cuban Revolution had not been ended by the Bay of Pigs?