Blacks cheered with OJ was acquitted. It was shocking when I discovered this. So, no criminality and guilt are not important anymore. BTW, they knew OJ was guilty.
It was about race and nothing else mattered. It was about revenge and evening the score for all of those years of injustice and probably slavery.
For a good while now, the NFL, and basketball, has been about race; for the sake of not killing the goose laying the golden eggs the divide in the locker room and on the field has been left to simmer...now it appears the blacks are pushing their majority up front and are demanding an accounting, and the minority whites can do little but aquiesce...
Rhodesia writ small; chaos the reward...
Celebrities are different. Ito was not black but he was no less star struck than many of the rest. It’s a celebrity thing as well as a race thing.
When a black juror does vote to convict they are going to base their decision, being responsible, based on the evidence.
But for those who aren’t responsible for the decision a different dynamic seems in play.
This is, as you point out, about race ... but it isn’t just about race. Famous black people are apparently seen as representative of all black people. The myths about race require it. I’m guessing that when a famous black man is found not guilty others get to vicariously share in it ... their blackness is exonerated. Likewise it seems that many (especially white progressives) think blackness is being punished (I.e. the old style bigotry is still behind current incarceration rates).
Heh, making my sister’s breakfast and I realized I’d poorly edited that post.
When I wrote that it wasn’t just about race that was a reference to celebrity. However, after writing that the post was radically restructured, things shuffled about, but it didn’t change that line to match.
Sorry for the bad editing.