We usually agree on topics as if we're joined at the hip, but I'm not sure the nation is that eager to forget the racist carnage at Buffalo.

The Uvalde tragedy took place only a week later, had a larger number of casualties, the victims were children (who always garner more sympathy than adult victims) and the ongoing murky circumstances around the rescue attempts, have kept the incident prominently in the public conversation.

If you recall the Mother Emanuel shootings, the nation certainly stopped and attended to the circumstances of those murders. The Justice Department reached a civil settlement for the victims, and the killer was sentenced to death in a federal Hate Crimes case. We acknowledged that crime for what it was.

I'm not one to shrink in the face of racism, and I certainly agree that we need to address the poison of white supremacy and its many consequences. However, in this case, there is more to the nation's mourning than the desire to "forget" the cause and the victims of the Buffalo murders.