I was waiting for one of these responses to arrive. And just like clockwork...
So let's dig in:
> If I can believe the current narrative things have been going from bad to worse to black people walk the streets in fear of their lives from racist cops in the last few years.
In fact, just the opposite. It was worse before, but has slowly gotten better. Black artists have been making songs and paintings about corrupt and racist police not for years but for over a century. Body worn cameras and phone cameras have made the evidence irrefutable, "the police lie." So, now the NWA song, "Fuck the Police", wasn't just a bop but an actual indictment of the LAPD set to a 3/4 beat.
> that same flag is being called a racist symbol by leading politicians
You must be confusing the American flag with some other racist flag. No leading politician has ever referred to the stars and stripes as racist.
> the 4th of July supposedly celebrates independence for only part of the population
Umm yeah, that declaration was for land owning, white men. Native Americans didn't get theirs until 1965. We celebrated it but we knew it wasn't "for us"
> everyone has been blind for decades or the current narrative about racism is a lie meant to achieve some political purpose.
Great big omissions about the history of this country have been uncovered. And instead of believing the citizens have been intentionally blinded you prefer to think it's some conspiracy. Carry on.
> why the parent poster brought up the bad racism in SF and LA and the racism in Boise, Idaho.
Because when deciding where to relocate in the US some of us don't have the privilege of going wherever we want. One of the questions that get asked is "is X minority there? and if not why not?" Sometimes it's as simple as location (ie, HI, AK) and sometimes it's an old racist law like sundown towns. I bring up Boise as a counterexample. We're familiar with LAPD and know what to expect when dealing with them, and Bloomberg era NYPD. When discussion on moving out of California came up it was to other large cities with large minority populations, a place like Boise is an enigma to us. We don't know what's there and that can be dangerous for us.
> Is that the change which made it possible to claim racism is everywhere
So a country that is built on racism, which the US was, it tends to be everywhere, just not in expressed in objective terms and concepts you'd be familiar with. For example, Washington has an unnaturally low Black population. Because black people were literally banned from an entire state.
Btw, I'm sorry for you other people have a different experience from you, and that makes you feel uncomfortable.