[Bubba Ho-Tep]

What is this New Orleans riot that you speak of?

More southern history time, I guess. In 1866, the Louisiana government enacted Black Codes, denying the recently freed slaves the right to vote, among other things. When blacks gathered at Mechanics Institute to politically organize, including a group of black US Army veterans, they were attacked by a mob organized by the mayor of New Orleans and reinforced by police and firemen. About 50 blacks were killed and another 200 wounded, although numbers may be higher.

The Klan was an organization that went after innocent civilians

You mean like those blacks who had the temerity to "march down the streets in Southern cities like black panthers did in the 60s"?

[AzaleaCity5691]

“You mean like those blacks who had the temerity to “march down the streets in Southern cities like black panthers did in the 60s”?

Using an isolated incident to extrapolate a supposed truth. Not a gentleman’s tactic but I’ll respond anyway.

You know full well that I was comparing the armed black militias of Reconstruction to the way that Black Panthers used to march around with guns in the 60s and 70s. Your attempt was to try and make me appear as if I was portraying the civil rights protestors as in the same vein as “Black Panthers” as a way of trying to discredit my argument.