Campaign Against The Grain

But it was the discussion afterwards that showed our desire to protect minority rights in opposition to majority opinion. One student wanted to know why the moderator Jim Lehrer didn’t press each candidate to defend their support for the death penalty, especially considering the racial biases in its enforcement. Dumm explained that analysis of the death penalty constituted an elite social issue that few groups beyond the ivory towers would care about. So how are we to go about making meaningful