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A Black And White View Of The O.J. Simpson Case 20 Years Later
Huffington Post ^ | 6/8/2014

Posted on 06/09/2014 3:49:04 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

The Simpson murder trial exposed many painful truths. None hit harder than the idea that white and black people often look at the same facts and see different realities.

Today, 20 years after the case captivated and divided the nation, few opinions about the saga have changed. Despite two decades' worth of increasing racial acceptance, the Simpson case still reflects deep-rooted obstacles to a truly united America.

Most people still believe that the black football legend killed his white ex-wife and her friend, polls show. But for many African-Americans, his likely guilt remains overwhelmed by a potent mix: the racism of the lead detective and the history of black mistreatment by the justice system.

For these people, Simpson's acquittal is a powerful rebuke to what they see as America's racial crimes. Others simply see a murderer who played the race card to get away with it. Across the board, emotions remain vivid.

"It was very tense at work," recalls Carlos Carter, who at the time was one of the few black people working in the trust department of a Pittsburgh bank. "The whites felt like OJ was guilty, they were rooting for their team. We thought he was innocent, that he was kind of framed, so we were on the black team."

He adds: "We were consumed with it. Like Sugar Ray Robinson fighting the great white hope. It was like a match. It represented something bigger than the case, the battle between good and evil, the battle between the white man and the black man. It was at that level."

This sentiment, widespread in the black community, was confusing to Shannon Spicker, a white woman who was working her way through college at the time.

"We didn't understand how people could defend him just because he was black"

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
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To: skeeter
If I'm reading this correctly, it says "many" black people wanted OJ to get away with brutally murdering a white woman. Thats a lot of hate.

"Bitch had it comin".

41 posted on 06/09/2014 4:55:15 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: Fantasywriter

Read this!

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/06/09/new-threats-and-intimidation-from-white-house-toward-soldiers-and-pentagon-officials-around-bergdahl-investigation/#more-83234


42 posted on 06/09/2014 4:56:42 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Altura Ct.

The1992 Rodney King riots and the OJ acquittal in 1994 were kind of a turning point for me.


43 posted on 06/09/2014 4:58:58 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: vladimir998
he is guilty and he got away with the murders of the century...all because a wimpy Judge allowed nonsense to go on in his courtroom and the DA picked the weakest team of prosecutors he could find....

and of course...money talks...and simpson walks....

and down to the bare bones of it all...

..the blacks wouldn't convict a fellow black especially killing a beautiful white woman with long flowing hair, because the black women hate that black men go after white women with long blonde hair.

and of course they wouldn't even contemplate what a white female prosecuting attorney would argue, because you know, they gots to protect their menfolk from the white women....

44 posted on 06/09/2014 4:59:00 PM PDT by cherry
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To: plain talk

Ain’t that the truth? All these women who rejoiced over this never stopped to think he would never have chosen any one of them. And even if he did, their fate might have been the same as his ex. Guys like this are jerks, period - they treat ALL women like crap. There’s nothing racist about it.


45 posted on 06/09/2014 5:03:52 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: Fantasywriter
do people not remember that Furman was only discovered to say that N word...(.why the hell is that stinking word so sacred?....its meaningless...) in a talk with a prospective book writer and he tried to spice up the police work he did....

saying the "n" word is not racist...its nothing more than a word....

46 posted on 06/09/2014 5:06:03 PM PDT by cherry
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To: research99
The other factor I think that is worth mentioning is simply money. It really was the "Dream Team" of criminal defense attorneys--F. Lee Bailey, Alan Dershowitz, Robert Shapiro, etc.--and O.J. was able to hire them, along with the jury consultants, focus groups and all the rest. What it showed was that you can literally buy "reasonable doubt." Why do people see race in the O.J. case? Because that's what tested well as a strategy. As soon as I heard the defense say, after jury selection, that they gotten the exact jury they wanted, I knew how it was going to come out.

You can also see it in the Robert Blake case--that guy was guilty as hell, but got off. And I'm sure that if Phil Spector hadn't had a long history of crazily pointing guns at women, he'd have gotten off, too. Hell, he got a hung jury in his first trial.

47 posted on 06/09/2014 5:09:08 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels"-- Tom Waits)
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To: Altura Ct.
I recall stories in the paper focusing on white anger over the verdict. A Black NYC doorman among other Blacks telling the same sort of story told of formerly friendly white women being frosty toward him and “refusing even too look” at him.

The part of my brain that is in charge of self preservation noted that Black tolerance of me was shallow and an act and Black hatred ran deep and that this was true to 80 some-odd percent of the demographic.

48 posted on 06/09/2014 5:09:26 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: cherry

“..the blacks wouldn’t convict a fellow black especially killing a beautiful white woman with long flowing hair, because the black women hate that black men go after white women with long blonde hair.”

BINGO!


49 posted on 06/09/2014 5:09:35 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Altura Ct.

I thought he did it but I also thought the prosecution didn’t come anywhere close to proving it and I did not understand the rush to trial.


50 posted on 06/09/2014 5:10:27 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: clintonh8r

Actually, I have no problem with that. That was true until Emperor Obama came along.


51 posted on 06/09/2014 5:10:33 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: tanknetter

I believe you are correct.

Our kid’s high school recently put on To Kill A Mockingbird....I was surprised they used all of the dialogue...even more surprised that there was no disclaimer or anything like that.

Sooooo...all of those kids must be racists.


52 posted on 06/09/2014 5:13:35 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Altura Ct.
"Just because he [Fuhrman}is a not very smart, racist guy," Vigil says, "I don't know that means O.J.'s not guilty."

That's the first time I've seen Fuhrman described as not very smart. Perhaps he meant getting caught using the N word on tape.

53 posted on 06/09/2014 5:22:11 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: Altura Ct.
If I'm reading this correctly, it says "many" black people wanted OJ to get away with brutally murdering a white woman. Thats a lot of hate.

These are the same hated-filled racists that elected BO with 93% of their vote. Ironically the words of MLK mean nothing to them, for they vote for a man based on the color of his skin, not the content of his character.

54 posted on 06/09/2014 5:22:45 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Excellent point
“You can also see it in the Robert Blake case—that guy was guilty as hell, but got off. And I’m sure that if Phil Spector hadn’t had a long history of crazily pointing guns at women, he’d have gotten off, too. Hell, he got a hung jury in his first trial. Similar circumstances, nothing about race in any of the cases. Don’t you wish people still had the ability to read something and see what was coming up nest.”


55 posted on 06/09/2014 5:24:24 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: waxer1

In my opinion, and I watched almost all of the case, the prosecution, whatever its real or imagined shortcomings, proved its case beyond any reasonable doubt.


56 posted on 06/09/2014 5:24:37 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: waxer1

exactly!

I wonder if that guy is still locked up?

What an outrage


57 posted on 06/09/2014 5:33:59 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: Altura Ct.

There are no white facts and black facts about the case....just facts. OJ is a murderer and should have been in prison for it all the years he was “looking for the real killer”.

Fear of black riots has swayed many a timid juror and played a large part in the current criminal occupant of the White House’s reelection.


58 posted on 06/09/2014 6:08:14 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Altura Ct.

It is very interesting to look up the major players of this trial. It is easy to see who has been blessed. Perhaps not because of this trial, but what kind of people they are. OJs team has been riddled with tragedy.


59 posted on 06/09/2014 6:09:12 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: vladimir998

“Kind of framed?” So who else could have done it? I realize that the defense is not obligated to answer that, but it would be nice if these people did. Seriously, who else had means, motive and opportunity?

I’m also tired of this “black people think he was innocent” foolishness. The ones on that jury didnt think there was reason to convict. I’m sure that there are plenty of blacks—intelligent ones—who think he was guilty.


60 posted on 06/09/2014 6:25:57 PM PDT by crazycatlady
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