If you were alive in 1960s America, you would have seen no seat belts, significantly lower life expectancy, children still dying to smallpox and polio, and if you are ethnically from the Middle East; everyone in America would have hated you. Race riots were a massive thing in the 60s, police brutality was rampant against people of color. Even the FBI was trying to suppress race progress.
You have presidents for decades trying to create racist drug politics to entrap only non-white non-affluent people into cyclical prison systems.
You have so much hidden then, that happens today, but it was both hidden and far far greater.
The ideal doesn’t exist at all and more so for someone like yourself.
They wrote. It down.
It may prove to not end in consequences, but they took notes on a criminal conspiracy before the outcome and it’s part of evidence submitted in federal court.
Nothing burger is not nothing.