The KKK wasn't just one peculiar agent of white supremacy: it was the keystone that made it so effective.

If you were a black man engaged in any kind of political, economic, or social organizing, you stood a decent chance of being murdered by the KKK, which was implicitly supported by the white-dominated State. This created a system where people were too scared to even begin organizing, leading to all kinds of disempowerment and social malaise.

Those inner city gun deaths have the KKK in their genealogy.

I agree with you, but there is no such thing as gun violence. A gun is just a tool. The violence in most cases that hurts blacks is caused by the insane, racist, never-ending war on drugs specifically designed to put brown people behind bars.

The overall level of crime and violence in the USA has dropped dramatically over the past few decades despite the prevalence of guns. End the war on drugs in America and the place would be one of the most peaceful places on the planet.

I can't speak for anywhere else, but I know that in Chicago, most gun violence is about settling scores, not about drug trafficking. Ending the war on drugs would keep a lot of non-violent offenders out of jail, but when teenagers who have never been to jail in the first place are shooting each other, you have to take a different approach.

Just last night -

"A 17-year-old boy was shot in the 2100 block of North Mulligan Avenue about 9:50 p.m. He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition with a wound to his thigh, Police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines said.

Another 17-year-old boy was shot in the back near 70th Street and Perry Avenue about 8 p.m. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized."

Interesting. But don't you think the scores are often drug related or gang related? In which the gangs primary motive is trafficking drugs?