its not about who they turned away, it was about the action of intimidation. I am not the eye for an eye type guy, but miniorities have been intimidated from voting booths for over a centuary, and continued up to even the 2000 election. I guess people will pay more attention to the problem once the wasp wasp caucasian city feels what miniorities have felt for a long while.
I think the time they chose to do so was epic, and it was something that would have made the civil rights leaders of the 60s very proud