Posted on 01/11/2016 6:09:05 AM PST by simpson96
It's the story that gripped nineties America and forged a racial divide across the nation.
But it was also about the tragic deaths of two people: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
The trial of O.J Simpson, now televised as part of a dramatic new series called American Crime Story, is a complex tale - and Cuba Gooding Jr, who plays O.J, reveals the intense sense of loss he experienced while filming it.
Gooding, 48, told The Hollywood Reporter: 'There was one day after filming that I went to my trailer and I couldn't stop crying because I realised I never [even considered the loss] for the Goldman or Brown family.'
'Back then, I was just so relieved that another black man got away from the injustice that was the LAPD. I was just so relieved that they didn't screw us over again.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Actually, a lot of blacks thought he was guilty. They were glad he did it.
I agree. But the black-flak game might be eroding some now. Things like Facebook and Twitter will ultimately erode racial preference.
I remember not caring either way but one of my friends was obsessed with the trial. During the trial, he explained to me how OJ was innocent. After the verdict, he swore OJ was guilty.
My aunt went into mourning after the verdict, not because of the verdict, but because the trial was over. It consumed her life during that time.
I don’t watch TV so I never got involved with it. Two dead people in LA isn’t usually national news.
I think it is eroding.
Of course there will always be racism and other -isms, but it’s encouraging to see that among most of the young people I know there’s acceptance of each other’s racial differences and that they even kid about race while being friends.
‘Back then, I was just so relieved that another black man got away from the injustice that was the LAPD. I was just so relieved that they didn’t screw us over again.’
School bussing and affirmative action will have achieved nothing compared to the race-less nature of Twitter and Facebook. Race relations will improve through TECHNOLOGY, not through Obama and all the leftist garbage we have endured.
You do have to give OJ props for putting the real killer behind bars.
I always kind of liked Cuba Gooding Jr.
It’s like the song went in Team America:
I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school,
He was terrible in that film.
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part,
He’s way better then Ben Affleck.
And now all I can think about is your smile,
And that s....y movie too,
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you
I think you mean "couldn't care less"...yes?
FMCDH(BITS)
Good point. I hadn’t considered technology’s influence on overcoming racial prejudice.
What did you type? I can't understand it.
FMCDH(BITS)
It just occurred to me too. Though I bet someone else thought of it first. It’s actually a spin-off of Drudge who predicted ‘the din of small voices’.
What happened with Bailey?
There was a country song, "Everybody's Somebody's Fool", too.
He was involved with some stock scam with a drug dealer and got caught and was fined $5 million and was disbarred.
OJ’s defense team they will all pay one day for what they did. I hated that ugly Barry Scheck.
We lived in Chatsworth when the Northridge quake struck. I got up at 4:30 a.m. every morning,
and that morning I had just gotten to the bottom of the stairs when the quake hit.
I stood there in pitch blackness (the electricity was out) in the doorway to the kitchen and
listened to all the glass and china in our house fall and shatter on the kitchen and dining
room floors. They were tile floors, and we had quite a clean-up ahead of us. 6.8 earthquake
with several 5.0 aftershocks. Our library was tossed. Fallen shelves, books everywhere, just
a horrible mess and again, loss of anything breakable.
I went to work, but the facility wasn’t operable, so they sent everyone home to start making
the repairs. I didn’t work there for much longer, and eventually got a job where my husband
was working at my area of expertise, a printed wiring board manufacturing shop.
Our slimy liberal neighbors took a ton of FEMA money, while we did our repairs on our own.
We figured others needed it more than we did, and we got by all right.
That was a beautiful house (after we bought and repaired it) on a gorgeous plot of land with
a huge panorama from the upstairs rooms and a cute little pond in the back yard just off the
patio where we entertained our in-laws in the Summers. I wish we could have taken the entire
plot of land, house, pond, front and back yards, and all, wherever we moved. But no... Sigh...
I was set to record the series, but then found out the second season, which hasn't even officially been ordered yet, will focus on Hurricane Katrina. I also thought that each episode would deal with a different story, but the whole 10 episodes in the first season is about the O.J. trial. I lived through it once. Don't need to see it again in a remake. There's better programs to watch out there.
Remember the song, and didn’t know his Dad was the lead singer. Thanks for the info.
I remember when some of the black females on the jury implied that Nicole Brown Simpson must have done something bad to deserve what happened to her.
I also remember Howard Stern saying that if O.J. was to be tried by his peers, the jury should have consisted of rich, white men who golfed.
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