African Americans are a diffused group and were ideologically defeated a long time ago. The Malcolm X type and its past collective force of condition do not exist. All you have left are jesters such as Umar Johnson, woke sellouts like many of the old but still alive civil rights activists that are very in line with the establishment Democrats that enjoy prestige but only give validity for elites to feel good about themselves to subscribe to the least challenging social position, undisciplined activist movement that subscribes to childish notions of far-left ideology without having any tangible game-plan and let "intersectional" clusterfuck garbage poison the well and tangle their issues with wrong perspectives adopted from illegitimate source so they might not concentrate will and maneuverable momentum, and then these neutered ADOS/FBA types that have arguments and nothing else.
African Americans are more so a sub-American cultural group than an ethnic group (reduced to such in practice, not in concept, as they are a sectioned group we historically classify as peoples). The dimensional spectrum of that population is everywhere, not at all coherent, extremely heterogeneous, and very clustered between the cracks of the rest of Americans that are not representative of them. White America made sure they were not a threat to its ways.
It did not have to be like this, but along the way, they got co-opted severely. For that to change, they will have to have a complete cultural revolution with new intellectuals at the forefront with new ideas and spirits who show utter independence of anything but the "cause." This will only come from issues getting severely worse, and America needs to also get a whole lot more rocky. Nothing from the lukewarm and bitter conditions they are in now will kickstart anything of that quality and magnitude.
I think African Americans are severely underrated people and it comes from how they are the talent that never matured and realized. Their potential is way higher than the confines of America's imagery. They have to realize they are the heart of America itself. Not in the way that builds resentment of lost potential but in the way to seize it. To take what can be yours. To define the grounds for a new conversation.