No, I didn't say that. It's dispicable whoever does it, but when you look at the situation from the content and the spirit of the law, were any white voter's right to vote denied them?
The Klan would be wrong for uttering hate speech and brandishing weapons, too, if done outside a polling place on election day, BUT under the law they have every right to say pretty much what they want to say. As long as their words or actions DON'T deny me or anyone else their right to vote, they can look and act as intimidating as they want!
Believe me, I understand that this is a hard pill for many white people to swallow. As an American let alone an African-American male, I don't like what happened either, but it pales in comparison to what has been done to my people of the course of generations. Hence, the reason I can accept a plea bargain in this case becasue there has not been any evidence to prove that any white voter's right to vote was denied them or that any white voter was intimidated or felt threatened enough by their actions to turn away from the voting booths.
Freedom of assembly, freedom of speech...
Commuicating a threat is about all this amounts to. The individual in question was directed by the justice system not to carry a deadly weapon near a polling place until 2012. In my book, justice was served (but perhaps would have been better served if the idiot in question was issued a gag order as well, but like I said, "freedom of speech"...).