I think it's pretty obvious what anyone would mean by saying it's a racial thing, and that is that the white suspect got a slap in the wrist. Just put a black face on Brock Turner, and try to picture him walking out of jail this soon for raping a girl by a trash dumpster.

"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea