Actually I came across something a few days ago that might apply.

Someone was frustrated by some civil rights setback, and finally told a friend "I just want to not think about it for a while." To which the friend replied "okay, but being able to not think about it for a while is basically the definition of priviledge."

Maybe what Ursula was saying was not that minority voting rights didn't matter, but that she didn't want to think about it for a while. And to those of us who have that priviledge that seems a reasonable thing to say. And to those who don't have that priviledge it's like "easy for *you* to do that..."