Was there a specific event that sparked this?
A lot of the protests African Americans start up are in response to things like recent police brutality. As in specific events in recent memory.
And not to pile on the U.S., but in Canada, if your mug got captured on camera at a rally like that, you would likely be ostracized and fired by your employer. The guys at this rally seem very proud and happy to be front row and centre, and relatively clean-cut and "normal" as compared to the fringe element in Canada that tend to be mostly unemployable freaks. In Canada, you get the odd right wing nazi wannabe groups, but the guys at the VA rally look like your everyday suburban dads.
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