The protests changed me in a lot of ways. One way was, I was by no means a class reductionist before. But the protests really woke me up to the real struggles of oppressed communities in the US and importantly, the revolutionary potential in those communities. I remember listening to Rev Left in my car and had to pull over for a minute to absorb it when Breht said something to the effect of "what did white socialists in America ever give us?! Bernie Sanders!? Fuck that! The real revolutionary potential is with oppressed communities."
It made me truly realize that peaceful protest absolutism or "the right way to protest" cannot possibly create change. I now believe that the only reason legal forms of protest are legal is because they don't create change.
Also, the left needs to figure out how to have a popular movement and not have it get co-opted by liberals, and we need to do it yesterday.
I saw chuds obsess over the fact that a whopping 7% of the protests turned violent with libs meekly conceding to them. The BLM protestors could have done everything "right" but that wouldn't changed a damn thing.