A Black And White View Of The O.J. Simpson Case 20 Years Later

Huffington Post ^ | 6/8/2014

[GJones2]

> 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.

Nonsense! I started off favorably disposed towards Simpson because of his athletic achievements and comic roles in movies. I had lots of free time during that period, though, and watched nearly every minute of the trial. As inept as the prosecution was at times, the fact remains — as Marsha Clark pointed out in the summation — that even the uncontested evidence was far more than needed to convict. Also the evidence that was contested was contested very badly by the so-called Dream Team. I don’t want to get into the details — or take the time to refresh my memory of them — but I could write for hours about what was wrong with the defense’s arguments. They shouldn’t have convinced any unprejudiced person with a grain of sense.

[crazycatlady]

Oh, hell, yes. The man was badly treated, by Marcia Clarke, among others, who said she wished he’d never been born, or some such.

[crazycatlady]

Yes, but unfortunately to a lot of modern people, especially liberals, words and thoughts are more important than deeds.

[GJones2]

Sorry, ‘Marsha Clark’ should be ‘Marcia Clark’.

[CharlesOConnell]

Poem:

Tough Teddio Brisenio
Preserved poor Roddy’s brain-i-o
His cervical save
Was just such a rave
That they trashed ol’ LA
Insteadio.

It’s also necessary to remember “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” Rodney King.

LAPD Officer Theodore Briseno claimed to have placed his foot on Rodney King’s neck “in order to prevent brain damage”.

[CharlesOConnell]

Poem:

Tough Teddio Brisenio
Preserved poor Roddy’s brain-i-o
His cervical save
Was just such a rave
That they trashed ol’ LA
Insteadio.

It’s also necessary to remember “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” Rodney King.

LAPD Officer Theodore Briseno claimed to have placed his foot on Rodney King’s neck “in order to prevent brain damage”.

[crazycatlady]

It was silly, the same way their blind defense of Michael Jackson’s misdeeds was. Nobody worked harder at not being black than MJ.

[crazycatlady]

I’ve given it air if thought and think he was probably a bigger drug abuser than most people knew, not just coke, but maybe steroids, too.

[crazycatlady]

I heard that even some women in a battered womens’ shelter were rejoicing.
But it might be a story, like the ones about various middle easterners rejoicing on 9-11.

[crazycatlady]

I read a comparison of this trial with the Susan Smith trial around the same time on the other side of the country, by some editorialist. He or she pointed out how sensibly and sanely the Smith trial was handled, even though it was high profile.

[crazycatlady]

Don’t worry, I got it wrong too.

[crazycatlady]

Should read “a lot of “ thought.

[chesley]

The hate is there.

[Fantasywriter]

Thanks for that link. It was very interesting. Not that it’s done CNN much good. Their ratings are circling the bowl.

[JoeFromSidney]

Back in '98 I was a visiting professor in Turkey. I offered to give a faculty seminar on the American political party system. The first question I got from my the faculty members in the audience, after I finished, was, "Did I think OJ was guilty?" I replied "Yes." However, the question indicated how widespread was the interest in the case.

[5th MEB]

Probably; after all the kids are half white.

[5th MEB]

Then why don’t you just use it? It’s kind of like Honky or Peckerwood or White Devil. It’s just a word; actually derived from the Spanish Negrito or Negro, meaning black. Because most (not all) slave holders were from the Southern United States and have their regional dialects and accents the word was corrupted to nigra or nigger, shorter to say and easier to pronounce.
Mix in a basically illiterate population (1500’s-1800’s) and a little bit of Creole and you get a lot of words that people continue to use even today.
The only time any word, even cuss words and profanity are unacceptable is when they are used to denigrate or insult another human being.
I am what you would call a white man (actually kind of a brownish pink) of northern European stock, and I have been called nigger on many occasions by my black friends. They don’t mean it as an insult and I don’t take it as one.
People need to get over the fear of words in common usage, political correctness can not be allowed to determine what is a distinctly American language.
By my brown friends from the southern areas I have been called Gavacho (not sure of the spelling, I don’t speak Central American); normally it is used as an insult, it means white guy more or less kind of like gringo. Who uses the word, and how the word is used is the only important thing.

[waxer1]

Agree