We ignore the growing poverty in rural America' We are ignorant of the loss of 300,000 family farms in the last twenty years. See the wages withheld from the people who work the land. But it's so distressing to be reminded of this, you say. It's so frustrating to be aware of injustice and not be able to do anything about it. These are valid protests.
Religious rites are to be banquets of joy and peace.
Eating is a moral act, and sometimes a religious act. Yet, the gratitude for holy food and the salvation it brings is fully expressed only when we remember that unleavened bread was first eaten by slaves on the run and the cup of some drink is a cup of suffering. Where bankers sit next to farmers, boarder guards converse with the undocumented and ranchers share toasts with environmentalists.