Yes, I do agree with Kaiser's statement, particularly his reference to "the black people, mainly," with the emphasis on "mainly." I think it is relevant that he does not refer "only" to the black people, as opposed to 'mainly.' If the lawlessness and Jim Crow laws of the past are to change, the white inhabitants of Natchez had to be made to understand the moral & legal consequences of their passive acceptance of the status quo and of their failure to hold their elected authorities accountable, both to them and to the law. This was the very thing that occurred during reconstruction following the Civil War. Reconstruction failed to exist when southern white citizens & authorities chose to ignore the laws and instead instituted the Jim Crow laws that to all intents and purposes kept the uneducated former slaves in bondage to white landowners. Kaiser clearly felt deeply about the failures of the FBI during the Civil Rights Era and wanted to participate now in a moral reckoning that would undo those failures & subsequent injustices perpetrated on the African-American citizens of Natchez.