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I think you are way over analyzing the idea here, that it was the first of many major opportunities missed to start turning the country towards a more equal and progressive future, but our country has demonstrated over and over that it doesn't actually want that.
If there WAS a huge show trial and hangings as their should have been, would that have altered the course of history? Maybe or maybe not, but it's what should have fucking happened, and I kind of resent and suspect people who have to get on a soapbox to defend our failures of the past. We analyze the past to reduce harm in the future, ideally, so understand how useful this simplified message in this post could be towards that end before deciding you're the main character who needs to set shit right.