This is not the case, has historically never been the case, and unless human nature changes drastically, will never be the case. Whether you care about something has far more influence on your knowledge and relevance than the color of your skin. Also, by the way, she grew up in the United States.
It was not about the colour of the skin (you missed the part where I explicitly mentioned black people in my first comment, you probably missed that), but about the huge cultural difference between the US and India.
Or do you think that the programmers in here have the exact pulse on how a former hipster icon like Pitchfork went down?