That's true, but the BLM protests were a new organizing. Whatever organizing was happening before the start of the pandemic was disrupted.
Covid had a mix of seemingly contradictory effects; like I stated in (3) covid both disrupted organizing and gave some more time/motivation to organize.
Here I was thinking the BLM protests were possible in part BECAUSE of the plague shutting things down and causing economic strife.
That's true, but the BLM protests were a new organizing. Whatever organizing was happening before the start of the pandemic was disrupted.
Covid had a mix of seemingly contradictory effects; like I stated in (3) covid both disrupted organizing and gave some more time/motivation to organize.