You are missing the premise. You are at a state fair, for example, enjoying yourself, when suddenly a large group, intent on wilding, assaulting, even murdering, charges in your direction, attacking anyone they can in the process.
While you can “defend in place”, odds are great that you may be either overwhelmed, or arrested after the fact, for defending yourself against an angry, racist mob. That will never be *called* an angry, racist mob intent on assault, destruction, and murder. You trial will be as if you suddenly launched into an unsuspecting crowd of innocent people.
So instead of running away, which may not be an option, or hiding, which also may not be an option, you may have to “cut yourself out”, through the angry, racist mob.
From the point of view of the authorities, and the media, all you are supposed to do is be beaten, perhaps to death, but do nothing else until the police arrive, if they ever do. And you will get no support, or help, or sympathy.
They will not write down your side of the story, and if you even report truthfully that the angry, racist mob was entirely black, you will be called a racist.
With this as a given, is protecting yourself from all of it so wrong?
I may have misunderstood your initial comment. If you were only talking about attacking violent mobsters who wouldn’t let you pass or were attacking you or others then you would be acting in self defense and I misunderstood you. I thought you were talking about attacking anyone in the mob including those not actually threatening you with violence.