If there's one thing that our experience with America's original sin has taught us, it's that race hatred cannot be overlooked, brushed aside, or glossed over.
Each of the unfortunate changes in the American system which happened in 1913 would have resulted in some problems probably more manageable each on their own.
The statements and actions of the Westboro Baptist Church are precisely the sort of offensive, unpopular, marginal viewpoint that the First Amendment was designed from Day One to protect.