The mask is the outward sign of obedience to the authority they support.
I was out at grocery where in PA here we have no mandates. The store I was at was heavily shopped by blacks. All of them masked up, masks below their broad noses. Most blacks are epigenetically slave minded and do what they are told. Part of the human race, but genetically broken.
The protesters could have been the ugly students trying to keep the false sense of “equality” that COVID achieved for them.