They have to live with their principles.

so, it is not inherently racist.

The current justice system in America is inherently racist, so the death penalty is, as part of that system as well. But the justice system could be, and obviously should be, reformed.

(And, btw, I'm against the death penalty personally)

I want to elect someone who will appoint anti-death penalty Supreme Court judges.

Murdering prisoners is morally indefensible.

A person can certainly believe that the current racial injustice can be removed from the system (it may be unlikely, but it is not impossible) and that, in a fair system, the death penalty would only be applied in a fair manner.



Of course, it's a lot easier to just call anyone who agrees with you a liar, so, carry on.

death penalty to "as it exists in reality", not some fantasy world version. Good point, "my bad"

why are you even interested in politics?

but if they are, I'd certainly want to see inequality in that administration eliminated, wouldn't you?

Be unfair. That's the reality of today. I would think that realizing that, she would come out and oppose it.

Poor blacks always get the death penalty next are the poor whites.

She would also oppose the death penalty as the death penalty has been found to be applied in a racist manner.

It begins with the prosecutors and judges and grand juries. Often they are all white, and it causes the application of justice to be tainted from the get go.
More often indictments are handed down by a white grand jury, to a white proscutor and wite judge, the defense is white, the witnesses white, the defendant black. What woukd have hapoened to that black man arrested for burglary of his neighbor's house if that little four year old girl had not told that the robbers had white skin? Years in jail, life fucked up. How many times has that happened where we had no honest little white child who was not taught to hate? We have no clue. But I think the reason we even still have a death penalty is because we have black people here. We need to fix the entire system.

42% of those on death row are black, but only 30% of those killed by the police are black.

...and he supported the death penalty when I voted for him.

His exact words were

"I support the death penalty in theory but in particle it is troubling"

And, given the number of death row inmates who have been exonerated, I don't understand how anyone can support it.

You're simply associating capital punishment with 'race' issues. Your argument doesn't hold since you didn't give any supporting evidence.
Capital punishment is as old as humankind.
How we deal with it is as old as humankind.

I don't know why you want to conflate these two different issues.

We don't have capital punishment up here, but nevertheless it's inherently racist.
These are different things.
I don't see how you can claim that tried to excuse the existence of racism here there or anywhere.
That isn't what I was saying.

the problem of a racist history persists.

So, you've got the death penalty in the USA and you've got a racist culture and the result is a foregone conclusion.
You've got a big problem.
I think it's a good first step to eliminate the death penalty.
I think if the USA can't figure that out, then no, it isn't likely to be able to think through more complex issues that owe in particular to a racist heritage.

I explained myself well enough for my conscience.
I differentiated the issues well enough to satisfy myself.

I figure I'm innocent of whatever further charges.

Do you support the death penalty, George?

Because a lot of us have always been vehemently against it.

But to point it out isn't a "dog whistle"

A dog whistle is a subtle jab at a candidate that one can whistle past and claim they aren't um whatever they are accused of. I am pretty sure Warren isn't going to pretend to not be anti-death penalty and he is probably not going to claim this isn't a jab at a candidate. Are you sure you know what a dog whistle is?

Here is a clue: when a statement explicitly references race, by definition it cannot be a dog whistle.

Since you aren't going to look it up:

is as likely to be executed as a black person who kills a white person, is an utter moron.

It is extremely disappointing that Obama still supports the death penalty given this horrible racial bias. Also I am disappointed in Hillary on this issue and respect O'Malley and Sanders for their stance.

Except insofar as the one is enacted by a society lacking the other.

Can a person honestly support racial justice and our nations manner of use of the death penalty? no.

But the death penalty itself(while worth opposing on its own merits) is not inherently racially unjust. We are more likely to all manner of bad things to non white people. That doesn't make all bad things we do to people independently racist. That just makes us as a group racist in our enaction of independently bad things.

I in no way support the death penalty.