The question for me isn't the "right" or "wrong" direction, why the protests at all? With 40% black incarceration rate which should be 14% (general population) there's a simple first step should these protesters care about black lives.

Legitimate movements have specific legal goals, like right to vote, or anti-discrimination laws, etc. Defund the Police is an ideal, not a practical solution (unless one prefers neighborhood gangs).

The Teslas you pointed out next to homeless tents points to the simple truth. A set of people going up, another set going down. If you're going up, you're going up. No problem. If you're going down, that stinks, but at least you can focus on your troubles.

If you're neither going up or down then you're just waiting, and the anxiety of waiting, of realizing the likelihood that you will also be going down has led to these complete bizarros looking changes to society (to this boomer). 15 year olds taking hormones to change their sex? BLM in wealthy neighborhoods?

It's all lashing out! Waves of social insecurity. If you're not on a professional track, or a techi, of comfortably secure with family money, what are you? Nobody. Just a container of debt. A slave with less and less chance of getting your freedom. The 10 million Americans who were bankrupted out of the American Dream in 2007-2010 gravitated towards Trump who proved that being unlikeable by the winners could be a fun identity. (MAGA is fun to many people; something most of us won't look at).

With the Pandemic both creating another 10 million plus bankrupted Americans and these protesters moving to a "lay flat" philosophy, like in China (who says China doesn't innovate-haha) what is next?

History is very clear on that.