None of this is to say that racism no longer exists, or that some communities aren’t still battling with the legacy of racism and ongoing economic injustice. But in terms of the ‘lived experience’, if we must use that phrase, of black Americans, BLM has made things worse. The call to ‘defund the police’ in the wake of Floyd’s murder led to a pulling back of police forces from high-crime, majority-minority areas. Murder rates soared. Riots – whitewashed as protests by the mainstream media – ripped the heart out of black urban communities across the US. A toxic atmosphere of censorship and cancellation made it difficult even to criticise what was going on.

All the while, millions flowed into BLM’s coffers and – as we now know – into the pockets of high-end Californian real-estate firms. Much of it was from the corporate behemoths of modern capitalism. So eager were Google, Apple and Microsoft to give to Black Lives Matter that at one point they almost donated millions to an entity called the Black Lives Matter Foundation, which had nothing to do with BLM proper (and was, incidentally, more pro-police).

Clueless right-wingers who castigate these firms for backing a ‘Marxist’ organisation entirely miss the point. Black Lives Matter was never a threat to those in positions of power. If anything, it has done most damage to those at the bottom, while allowing activists to buy houses and corporations to buy virtue.