THE GREAT DIVIDE
Only some lives matter.
We all heard about the terror attack in London. A man drove into a crowd and stabbed a policeman. Five people including the attacker died.

Earlier in the week, at least 33 people were killed in an air strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Raqqa, Syria.
That attack followed a US strike on a mosque in Idlib in north-west Syria that killed at least 52 people.
Later that week, up to 200 Iraqi civilians were killed in Mosul in two US air strikes. 

These stories received a fraction of the ink. Most people in the West know nothing about these disasters.
When brown people die on the other side of the world, there are no names or pictures or lives or grieving families. Their deaths raise not even a blip on our consciousness. All it took was the press of a button by some anonymous US pilot or drone operator.
Destroying a village in order to save it.