At this point I'm sort of used to learning that one thing after the other that seems weird about the US is, it turns out, just because of racism.
But still I am somehow surprised to find out that the school shooting fiasco in Uvalde apparently also happened because of racism: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/19/texas-border-control-tactics-uvalde-school-shooting/10093512002/