This protest movement is unintelligible unless you view it through the prism of state-backed religion spectator.us/black-lives-ma…
Forgot to mention this in the item, but another obvious hallmark of religious movements is a cannon of sacred texts. You can detect DiAngelo's influence in so much of protesters' rhetoric and behavior. Even at the more milquetoast suburban "protests," her book is required reading
It is often said that these demonstrations are about “human rights” rather than “politics,” as if the two are neatly separable categories, and as if overtly political demands are not being routinely made. This rationale is used to justify granting the demonstrations state backing
That these state-backed demonstrations occupy a distinct socio-epistemic category, one marked by ritualized expressions of dogmatic religious fervor, explains why they have enjoyed such cultural, political, and legal primacy across an extremely wide cross-section of US society
Though the rhetoric employed by protesters and their supporters across elite societal spheres often appears adversarial, it has been swiftly incorporated into establishment power; adoption of its religious sentiments enhances the perceived moral status of establishment power
"State-backed demonstrations" is the phrase I have come up with for these phenomena, but I'm not wedded to that term -- in fact, it still seems a bit inadequate. If you come up with a better one, send it to me. We legitimately need a new sociological category
Name me another protest movement that has ever had an entire city plaza officially named after it in the span of a week. Yes, that requires state-backing 
