Your "black super-predators" comment is unfair to the degree of being slanderous of Clinton, in my IANAL opinion. Going by the information presented in the Politifact article, the final "mostly true" evaluation is garbage. This bit makes more sense:
> The full context of this incident does link children and superpredators, but nowhere in the speech does she directly label African-American youth this way.
Furthermore, the whole point of mentioning the Clinton factoid seems to have been to show that Clinton had a racist slip; but the reasoning here seems like it's underlied by the racist premise that all street gang members all black, so "of course that a gangbanger would be black".
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.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.
> The full context of this incident does link children and superpredators, but nowhere in the speech does she directly label African-American youth this way.
Furthermore, the whole point of mentioning the Clinton factoid seems to have been to show that Clinton had a racist slip; but the reasoning here seems like it's underlied by the racist premise that all street gang members all black, so "of course that a gangbanger would be black".