“Can’t we all just get along” remains part of the American lexicon to this day, mostly as an ironic punchline, because of King’s televised plea for peace during the ‘92 LA riots.
That isn’t how our current culture operates. Society didn’t have a 24/7 media cycle, the entire population equipped with cameras, or “influencers.” We quickly move on to the next thing, especially anybody under the age of 40.
If you think anyone’s going to forget the global protests and riots that ripped the country apart for a whole summer whole most of us were stuck at home with nothing to do during a pandemic when we still talk about the summer of ‘68 fifty odd years later, again, I got some bad news.