&gt; They were not following a racist law.<p>Prohibition is a racist law.  It is designed to strengthen the institution of racism.  It was openly created for this purpose.  It seems that you are trying to act like this isn&#x27;t the case.<p>&gt; ignoring the perpetrators instead of the victims.<p>The perpetrators include not only those who participated in these acts in Alabama, but also those who conspired to pretextually pass these laws in the first place.<p>If you prosecute everyone who participated in this crime, which I hope will happen but almost surely will not, and secure a just verdict in every single case, which I hope will happen but almost surely will not, but you <i>fail</i> to repeal prohibition entirely, you won&#x27;t have made much progress against racism.<p>They aren&#x27;t two different things; prohibition (and its material form, the prison state) <i>is the same thing</i> as racism.