Historical context that I'm old enough to personally remember. The phrase "predator" to refer to black and hispanic gang members was very well established raci

Historical context that I'm old enough to personally remember. The phrase "predator" to refer to black and hispanic gang members was very well established racist dog whistle back in the days of Reagan and Bush Sr. The phrase "superpredator" was built on the existing term about a year before Clinton used it. You can read the original essay reprinted at https://web.archive.org/web/20160307234335/http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-coming-of-the-super-predators/article/8160 https://web.archive.org/web/20160307234335/http://www.weekly.... The author of that essay later reported that the Clinton's met with him to talk specifically about this article. There is no question that this article is where she got the phrase from. It absolutely was a racist term. Everyone at the time knew it, including Hillary Clinton. It is only through lacking that context that anyone today can argue that it was anything else. This is my IANAL opinion. But I'd be willing to stand by it in court.