[pawdoggie]

Why are blacks so deluded? 97% think that OJ is innocent. Are they completely detached from reality? Interestingly, nearly the same percentage of blacks vote Democrat.

I don't believe that most blacks necessarily thought that Simpson was "innocent", per se, as much as he was legally "not guilty". At the time of the trial I had two black co-workers who were spinning all manner of conspiracy theories about how someone other than O.J. might have committed the crime. One of the guys, however, finally admitted to me that the real "bottom line" for him was that O.J. had just as much right to hire an expensive mouthpiece to get him off as any white murder suspect (e.g. the notorious T.Cullen Davis in Texas, Klaus Von Bulow, the Menendez Twins, etc).

Personally, I'm still waiting for the Federal Civil Rights trial of Simpson (after all, that's how the Feds handled white "jury nullification" back in the Civil Rights Era). I'm waiting and waiting and waiting.

[Northern Alliance]

I don't believe that most blacks necessarily thought that Simpson was "innocent", per se, as much as he was legally "not guilty". At the time of the trial I had two black co-workers who were spinning all manner of conspiracy theories about how someone other than O.J. might have committed the crime. One of the guys, however, finally admitted to me that the real "bottom line" for him was that O.J. had just as much right to hire an expensive mouthpiece to get him off as any white murder suspect (e.g. the notorious T.Cullen Davis in Texas, Klaus Von Bulow, the Menendez Twins, etc).

Great post. That has got to be the feeling of lots of blacks but what immedidately strikes me is I never read it in the MSM - only here.