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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"Bitch had it comin".
The1992 Rodney King riots and the OJ acquittal in 1994 were kind of a turning point for me.
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....
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.
saying the "n" word is not racist...its nothing more than a word....
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.
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.
“..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!
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.
Actually, I have no problem with that. That was true until Emperor Obama came along.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
exactly!
I wonder if that guy is still locked up?
What an outrage
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.
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.
“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.
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