Apples and oranges, but beautiful classic racist logic.
Congratulations.
Excuse me, but you used that “racist” term way too readily. Wideawake is no racist.
Well, Evers was indeed shot for his insistence on crossing the color line, rather than arrested.
However, it took more than a year - and lots of federal pressure - for the local authorities to finally arrest the man whom everyone knew to be responsible. And while he was awaiting trial, the state governor came to pay him a friendly visit in jail.
That's indicative of the legal climate at the time.
but beautiful classic racist logic.
Toward whom am I supposedly exhibiting "racism"?