Still Vulnerable and at Risk from 1619 to 2020.

It will be sad if the greatest legacy of the Black Lives Matter peaceful protests and destructive riots both is the spread of the CoVid virus in younger populations, which eventually is tracked back into more vulnerable populations in the black community.

Being out on the street chanting with others might feel good, temporarily, if you're into that sort of thing, but risks exchanging viral loads with the hundreds of others present and unmasked.  Why people thought this was a good idea to risk vulnerable Black Lives, in times of high transmission and serious health risk is beyond me...

Change doesn't come on the streets.
Change comes in the legislature.  Personally, were I black and wanting to be an activist, I'd be looking ahead to July 31, when the financial relief  ends, afforded by many of the initial CARES act programs financially encouraging workers to try and isolate and self distance to protect vulnerable others, including themselves.

The HEROES act passed by the House is sitting there in the Senate, the president and other Republicans have indicated they are open to continuing pre-election financial relief with the virus still active in regions throughout the country.  Instead, black activists would prefer Congress debates... statues?  And 1619?  What a waste of political capital...

Impressive numbers and serious political clout would prioritize the black lives today, being lost in the pandemic.  And those premature death caused by controllable causes, like obesity, heart disease and diabetes.

In my observations in the Midwest, it is the Middle-Class Working black people especially who are masking up in public places -- pumping their gas on the station islands, inside the stores, walking in and out the store to the car in the parking lot, etc.  If black elders are smartly not taking risks, and are trying to protect themselves while minimizing their public chores, why are their children and grandchildren being encouraged to protest in the streets, mingling with so many others outside the black community who are exposing them -- and their communities, to CoVid transmission?

If you think about it, it doesn't make sense if you truly believe that Black Lives Matter.