black votes show us today, that there are still plenty of folks alive and well, who are willing to allow minorities to be disenfranchised. Its not a far cry to think that these people would allow for death.

From your link:

of hate that infect many humans. What if we presented the fact that it would be good for
anyone who decided to do the same thing? They could live happier, healthier lives. (Of course
so could the rest of us.) But present it as a definite benefit for themselves.

I know I get very frustrated at the lack of progress in this area during my lifetime.

Many African Americans, fearing for their lives, hid in the dense woods nearby. Following Jenks’s lead, officers gave the troops orders “to shoot everything that showed up.”
One later bragged that “they were shooting them down like rabbits.” In one particularly barbaric instance, soldiers interrogated a captured black man; deeming him “extremely insolent,” they poured kerosene on him and set him on fire before riddling him with bullets. Meanwhile, white posses, some of them organized by the local American Legion post, continued to maraud, killing people in several locations in the countryside around Elaine