Panzer, here's a hypothetical case for you:

Leroy Williams rapes and murders white women for several years. Then the Tennesee police catches him. They fry his arse on the chair.
Does this make the US goverment his moral equal? Are the people of Tennessee now no better than this black serial killer?
I mean, they are murderers too by putting him on the chair. And they have a history of racism too, just like our black serial killer.

Or is there a difference?