It's not about skin color
The common refrain from the proponents of the wrong side of history is: "well, okay, but why make this about your skin color? Shouldn't – ahem – all lives matter?"
It's not about skin color for the people who were shot, assaulted, demeaned or mistreated. For them it's the opening of wounds that can never be healed, sorrows that can never be forgotten or the taking of lives, senselessly, in vain.
It's about skin color for the people who were doing the assaulting. It's about dehumanization, relegation to second-class status, willful ignorance of all the individual properties that make up a person. It's about the overwhelming, overbearing legacy of systemic and systematic mistreatment reaching back centuries, and the scar it left.
Whether or not someone is indoctrinated, deeply mistaken (perhaps with the lure of formality fairness, or borne of corrupted shame) or willfully negative, their position is ultimately one of choice, and can be reversed by humility, thought and compassion. No one is born with hatred in their heart, and no one needs hold onto it to their death.