Posted on 04/13/2024 6:09:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the wake of OJ Simpson’s death, several black commentators have revealed the dark underside of race relations in America by suggesting that black Americans were glad that he got away with murdering two white people.
In 1995, a jury of nine blacks, one Hispanic, and two whites acquitted Simpson of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman despite “a mountain of evidence” that he was guilty. Many commentators at the time saw the acquittal of Simpson as an example of jury nullification, when a jury members defy a judge’s instructions on the law and acquit a defendant who has been proven guilty for their own biased reasons.
CNN reporter Stephanie Elam’s raised eyebrows Thursday when she almost said many [black] people were happy OJ got away with murder.
“Because of that racial unrest in the ’90s, that is why so many people, who may not have been invested in OJ Simpson, were just happy to see that someone who is rich and famous, and black, could get away with,” Elam began before catching herself and continuing, “what other people did in the system as well, too.”
CNN Contributor Ashley Allison made a similar comments Thursday, suggesting that the black community were rooting for OJ “particularly because there were two white people who had been killed.”
Allison formerly worked in the Obama White House as the Deputy Director in the Office of Public Engagement, and also worked on Joe Biden’s presidential campaign as well as his transition team. — was weighing in on the racial tensions that pervaded the country during the Simpson trial and its aftermath.
She said the Simpson case stoked the racial tensions stemming from the Rodney King riots of 1991.
“It was so racially charged because of what had happened just before with Rodney King, but also just how black Americans feel about policing,” Allison said.
“He wasn’t a social justice leader, but he represented something for the black community in that moment, in that trial, particularly because there were two white people who had been killed. And the history around how black people have been persecuted during slavery,” she added, going on to suggest that black people will continue to harbor murderous resentment toward white people until we “deal with the issue of race.”
“Until this country is ready to actually have an honest conversation about the racial dynamics from our origin story until today, we will always have moments like O.J. Simpson that manifests and our country will always be divided if we don’t actually deal with the issue of race,” Allison said. “And the history around how black people have been persecuted during slavery.”
Marc Lamont Hill, another black political pundit and a CUNY professor, also sparked outrage after he wrote on his X account that Simpson may have been “an abusive liar” and a “monster” who “killed two people in cold blood,” but his acquittal “was the correct and necessary result of a racist criminal legal system.”
Hill later defended his post, claiming that Mark Fuhrman, the detective from the Los Angeles Police Department who worked the case, “was caught lying” about having referred to black people with racist epithets.
Hill also pointed out that Fuhrman pleaded the Fifth when asked whether he planted evidence in the Simpson case.
“That raises legal doubt,” Hill argued. “That’s why the verdict was proper.”
“Regardless of race, the system has to be fair,” he added.
Fuhrman has claimed in interviews that he had used the “N Word” in an effort to create dialog while helping an author write a screenplay for a police movie. The author taped the sessions proving that he had uttered the “N” word dozens of times while consulting with her. After the tapes were played, Furhman said he had no choice but to plead the Fifth Amendment when the defense called him to the stand.
It is the left that has stirred up this division using their tired marxist methods.
The average white person doesn’t have a clue as to the depth of their hatred.
Well there it is.
And today, white people are being blamed for everything. That does not bode well for future race relations in America. If it is OK to murder white people for something unrelated that happened long ago, there will be no peace between blacks and whites going forward. Murder is NOT a form of reparations. Murder is PURE EVIL.
She isn't wrong.
Remember the videos after the verdict from workplaces and public places all over America showing blacks wildly cheering after the OJ "not guilty" verdict?
I blame Gil Garcetti, LA DA at the time, for moving the venue from Santa Monica to downtown LA - said the courthouse in Santa Monica was "too small" - although it was just fine for the civil trial that followed.
Garcetti knew a Santa Monica jury would be majority wealthy White and would rightfully convict Simpsons of the double murders. There was an election coming up - which Garcetti won by a narrow margin - He needed those OJ supporting votes.
This is a non-story. People are well aware of how the black community feels about whites. In a debate about gun control years ago between Orin Hatch (anti) and Jesse Jackson (pro), Hatch made the statement: “If you remove the murders committed by black males between the ages of 16 and 40, the US would have a murder rate lower than Switzerland.” Jackson’s response...crickets....
How about if we just end racism, white and black. Let the black race baiters go to hell and proclaim that we are not going to tolerate it any longer. NO racism of any kind.
Until they stop blaming Whitey for their self-induced failures, they will not be able to be successful in a country which gives them billions of dollars and special privileges.
who cares who uses the dreaded N word? Blacks do all the time, no problem.
diversity is a foolish fantasy and false religion that is causing the destruction of the formerly United states.
And we can thank KTLA and it’s edited video of the Rodney King arrest for why racial tensions were stoked over that.
you can’t control what people think.
“How about if we just end racism, white and black. Let the black race baiters go to hell and proclaim that we are not going to tolerate it any longer. NO racism of any kind.”
Who gets to decide what’s racism and what isn’t?
IF they are constantly talking about race, white or black, you are racists.
That’s racist.
“Until this country is ready to actually have an honest conversation about the racial dynamics from our origin story until today,....”
By what possible measure have we not had this conversation throughout our history?
And does the “honest” conversation allow you to support merit, Western Civilization, law and order, and can you tell anyone you don’t owe them a damn thing, or to get off crime and drugs? Can you call any black racist? Can you demand equal treatment?
Of course that’s not in the definition of “honest”.
How about just saying blacks that supported OJ Simpson are reprehensible racist scumbags? Is that allowed?
You may want to look at the murder and crime stats.
Blacks are murdered by blacks then whites you ever been to Chicago St Louis New York................................
Huh?
Black guy kills 2 whites and gets away with it, other blacks are cheering.
White guy kills a black, other blacks are rioting and burning the city down.
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