OJ Simpson no longer a touchstone of US racial politics (Because to think so might hurt Obama)

Guardian ^ | 4 Oct 08 | Caroline Davies

[Joe Boucher]

Funny thing that OJ never embraced his blackness until he was arrested for murder.
I’d be surprised if blacks protect him.

[Burkean]

Were OJ’s children at the trial? I read about his sister being there and caterwauling when he was being carried away. But no mention of his two older children (including the older boy who conspiracy theorists say really killed Ron and Nicole) or his two younger children. Have they all four just moved on? I would like to think Nicole’s children are on friendly terms with the Brown side of the family.

[hinckley buzzard]

I'd guess your typical black person doesn't much like kidnappers and armed robbers. Strikes too close to home. Kill a couple of whiteys though and it's apparently a different story.

[SkyPilot]

I don't believe it. Blacks thought he was just as guilty as whites did. However, the majority of blacks appeared to take more joy in the perception of sticking it to whitey, than in doling out justice.

I was at a gym when the OJ jury nullification "verdict" was televised 13 years ago.

I was one of the few white people at the gym. The crowd around the TVs above was huge. They were cheering, screaming, jumping up and down, and pumping their fists when the not guilties were being read.

Black women next to me were shouting obscenities and making unbelievable evil comments about Nicole, Ron Goldman, and Caucasians.

It is something I will never forget.

[SkyPilot]

Good grief. The man just wanted his stuff back.

Because OJ was hiding all of his money from Fred Goldman, who won a $35 Million dollar law suit - Simpson had to be very shady and diabolical with his money.

He basically went "financially underground" and hide his millions in off shore accounts. Fred Goldman was relentless, and hired people to trail OJ's shenanigans.

What Simpson would do for quick cash was deal in sport memorabilia, and also sell his signature.

He traded in some of his own property for cash. Were these items legitimately his? Who knows? There were traded back and forth all the time, sold on E-Bay, and at auctions and shows.

The basic point is this: if they were his items, he could have gone to the police, but he didn't. Do you know why? Fred Goldman would have found out about it and seized the items and the money.

Moreover, you don't "get your stuff back" by bringing in thugs with guns, holding people at gunpoint, and threatening them.

What planet do you live on?

Fred Goldman got his revenge after all.

[SkyPilot]

Like I always say, the Demonrats are the party of the OJ jury. It says it all and is a perfect description.

Very well put.

[Glenn]

o if somehow I came in to have some of your crap,

Guess I really should have put a sarcasm tag in that post. I didn't think it needed one at the time.

[Glenn]

What planet do you live on

Please see post #27.

[chainsaw]

Good grief. The man just wanted his stuff back.

When you give something up by court order, it is no longer yours. It belonged to Goldman. OJ had no legal right to it what so ever.

[SampleMan]

Kinda how one might imagine a Klan meeting is like, huh?

[Joe Boucher]

sorry,
But still I come in to contact with folks who defend Mr. Simpson saying he was innocent and just another black guy done in by whitey.

[pray4liberty]

But still I come in to contact with folks who defend Mr. Simpson saying he was innocent and just another black guy done in by whitey.

Not for what he did this time. He's on his own and they know it.

[Joe Boucher]

Good.

[pray4liberty]

O.J. is a real badass and maybe some of his biggest fans are seeing for themselves that he could well be guilty of those murders, after all...and they sanctioned it by supporting him.

If some of them are Christians I hope they confess that sin to God.

[TruthWillWin]

If you lose you stuff an throw a fit,

there is no way we will acquit.

[SkyPilot]

Ha - sorry!

[truth_seeker]

“But still I come in to contact with folks who defend Mr. Simpson saying he was innocent and just another black guy done in by whitey.”

I think there are factions who almost always sides opposite to law enforcement. For them, it isn’t even a racial thing. It is an anti-establishment issue.

These types can come from both the right and from the left.

[SkyPilot]

Guess I really should have put a sarcasm tag in that post. I didn't think it needed one at the time.

These days, the Obamanites are flooding FR and other Conservative blogs.

You might be reading a post, and see someone say something like:

"I don't see what all the fuss is about? So, a bunch of children and their parents wanted to make a video about Obama and sing his praises. What is so strange and bad about that? Obama will change the World."

[pray4liberty]

Obama will change the World.

But...first, he'll change America into a third-world Muslim African dictatorship.

[Joe Boucher]

Still when there’s trouble they call a cop.