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Tonight is the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It’s a really dumb event where journalists play grab ass with the subjects they cover. I think it’s a venial sin at worse, because every industry has its stupid, embarrassing events, but even I, an apologist for it, found myself nodding along when I read this tweet.

Some people are getting dressed for a ball while others are running away from the police an hour away

— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) April 25, 2015

He’s talking about the WHCD at the Washington Hilton in DC and the protests against the killing of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. But in all seriousness, this tweet is evergreen. Terribly, awfully, intensely depressingly evergreen. This is America in 2015.

I’m going to watch the WHCD if I can, write some jokes, embed it in a blog post, etc…But the truth is: It doesn’t matter. What matters is what’s going on down the road. What matters is what’s going on down so many roads.