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Hard to believe there’s anyone alive who think him innocent. It was really about getting even for all the unjust acts committed against blacks going back centuries. Folks didn’t care that he was guilty. They only cared about getting even and that is why there was such elation and celebration by our AA-brethern over the verdict.

Precisely. That was a bit of an eye-opening moment in my life. I didn't realize that race relations were still so bad and that rational thought took a back seat to bitterness to so many in the black community. Their response to that verdict was a huge education. It's great that we finally elected a black president to unite us. /sarc

Yeah. I remember where I was when the verdict came in, actually in the furniture section of a department store, with a TV on in one of the heavily trafficked walkways. A bunch of us had gathered around the TV, more blacks than whites. When the verdict was read, all the blacks began cheering, some jumping around. Another white gal and I glanced at each other, obviously in disgust at the verdict and the gloating.

Sort of related, and I kid you not, a couple weeks ago I was glancing at the TV in our office breakroom over the lunch hour. It was on MSNBC, and happened to catch a reporter in a local hair salon, although I don't know what city this was in. There was an older black lady (about 66-68) getting her hair done by a young black man (maybe about 35). Reporter was on a stool in front of her talking with her and he asked: "What do you think of Trump?" Her response was that because it was being recorded for TV, she couldn't say what she really wanted to. He then said: "So you don't like Trump?" Her reply was that, no, she did not, and when he asked why she said: "Cuz if he become president, he going to put black people on ships and send us all back to Africa." The camera then panned out to a commercial break.

I kid you not, it happened just like that. Incredible what the mindset is on the part of a lot of blacks across this country today. Sad, so deeply sad.