This is what naive whites don't get or want to understand. When push comes to shove...race wins.
Black man says: “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.”
White woman says: “We didn’t understand how people could defend him just because he was black”
He IS guilty. He would be just as GUILTY if he were white. Case closed.
Just the facts, ma’am.
You know I think Mark Fuhrman was treated unjustly. The fact that he lied on the stand about saying the N word was not material to the case.
Everybody who worked with the Detective not one came forward and said that he was disrespectful to the black community. On the Contrary.
During the trial I tried to be objective. I think the preliminary hearing was more impactful to me. The Prosecution could have put on the best case including OJ in the act and the jury would have let him walk. I blame this fiasco solely at the fee of Judge Ito.
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.
Blah, blah, blah. He was guilty.
There's no point in reading further when the writer is so obviously oblivious.
When I hear that O.J. has died in prison, hopefully soon, I will be cheering and honking my horn just like the black people did when he was acquitted.
I don't doubt that black racism got OJ off. But OJ was a very rich dude married to a white woman. I never understood how acquitting OJ Simpson served any sort of justice for ordinary blacks.
Mark my answer down as:
C) Other
Huffington Post...why bother?
The reason is a thing called "racism".
The white women and her friends could not comprehend how blacks could be racist. I her mind racism is white people discriminating against minorities. It never occurred to her that it can work both ways.
I was in college when the verdict was being read, and all the black students jumped up and danced. The white students simply looked sad.
Yet it seems to be an issue of a different “privilege” - rich, powerful men, no matter who they are or how they got that way - simply cannot accept that ANY woman would reject them. That is just not possible. So it doesn’t matter if O.J. is black and she was white - he’s rich, famous, and desirable. She was white, gorgeous, a trophy wife. Those are the kinds of tradeoffs that have been in effect throughout history. It still comes down to the man’s ego - ANY man’s ego - I am who I am, how dare she not want me or want someone else?
The1992 Rodney King riots and the OJ acquittal in 1994 were kind of a turning point for me.
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.
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.
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.
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.