Sorry about mixing up Louisiana and Mississippi, Poppa. I sound like a Yankee for sure, don't I?

Now I have to argue with your statement when, referring to the white beating victim, you said we probably need to determine whether he did anything to provoke his being attacked. I find it hard to believe that he would have been singled out for a whupping if there weren't some reason for it. Did he perpetrate some earlier act of violence? Or was he just mouthing off?. This strikes me as a very prejudicial statement. We must assume he had to do something to justify the attack? And what would constitute a legitimate reason for justifying an attack by six persons on one?

We clearly need to know more about what happened down there before coming to those kinds of conclusions, and before we make heroes of six individuals who may be guilty themselves of an attack triggered by race-hate.