Race relations 2020

Race relations 2020: America's last war having failed to destroy the country, hordes of young people both white and black are seeking to position themselves to the forefront of history in demanding a more equitable society and condemning its especially harsh treatment of African-Americans. This being not 1964 but 2020, these protestors demand unspecified concessions from society while believing their lives to be anterior to history: the postmodern, college-educated crowd, mostly city-dwellers and unemployed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, are caught between existentialism and Marxism: they don't simply want to be the inheritors of a moralizing political tradition, but it is clear to me that they have nothing that will not be swept away by time and the police and hunger and the resumption of sporting events, despite the virulence of their rejection of racism and fascism and the overtly combative practice of policing these United States in the 21st century. It is true they are counter-ideological disbelievers in all messianic faiths like communism, and it is rare for a protest rally to have a religious figure as central to their demonstration. Therefore, it strikes me that these protestors are liable to be defeated by their lack of unifying ideological symbols as they make their case for the struggle against the dominance class power. Should they look to the non-violent stances of Gandhi and Martin Luther King? They can't look to me, unfortunately, as I am disabled and a stay-at-home. However, it remains to be seen who can stand up and unify these protestors. The last Presidential candidate who was both a brilliant orator and whose highly skilled rhetorical powers allowed him to stand head and shoulders above the crowd in terms of leading masses of people was Bobby Kennedy, in my opinion. However, he vanished from an assassin's bullet and was killed because of his compassionate outspokenness. Even now, fifty years later, his silence is a force in the procession of the protestors politically-motivated discourse.