Contributing, OK. But in the case of Hinton it was a failure to acknowledge that forensic evidence should have exonerated him and that's a human moral failure, where an honest assessment of the evidence would have made the state's policy irrelevant.
While it could be interpreted as a cheap shot, Id be willing to guess that most (if not all) of these moral failures were Christian. That means that faith or religion does not make people any more moral.
While I live in a country that is racially quite homogenous, I cannot relate to the tensions and kind of bottom-current that lies between the races in the US. That said for a foreigner it is quite obvious that "the system" has a bias against the blacks and that the blacks are not doing enough to make things change.
In here we have a minority (Gypsies or Roma-people) of some 10.000 people. Their culture is based on vagrant lifestyle and lack of education. Previously they made their living on selling horses but nowadays the majority just live on welfare (and petty crime). It is jokingly said that the thieving 99% gives the entire group a bad name. In reality it is way less than that but proportionally very much higher than in any other group.
If they really wanted, they could put an end to crime in such a small group but...
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