How does 'racial' justice differ from just justice?

NY Times:

‘Enough Is Enough’: New Racial Justice Leaders Rise in Kenosha

A new crop of activists has joined the ranks of protesters in Kenosha, Wis., as police killings across the country spur ordinary people into the streets. Jacob Blake’s family spoke at a rally on Saturday.
The term "racial justice"  has always bothered me, because justice should be color blind.  What is happening in the Blake case appears to be excusing his own contribution to what happened to him.  An intelligent person would not have put an officer in a headlock and resisted arrest after they tried to subdue him with less-lethal means. 

Jacob Blake acted like an idiot when the officers came to arrest him.  What he should have done was complied with the arresting officers and gone with them to the jail and had a lawyer appointed to deal with the criminal charges against him.  The riots that followed appear to have been at the hands of criminals who were not citizens of Kenosha.  We know that from the stories of residents and also from the identity of the three criminals shot by Rittenhouse in apparent self-defense.

Excusing Blake's actions is a mistake that will only lead to more violence against police and citizens.

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