Now that OJ has confessed, basically can someone tell me how this was a race issue?

Question

Back when the OJ trail ended I remember I was in College and we watched the verdict and all the white people in the class stood solemn and the black classmates cheered. Why did this have to be about race or MARK FURMAN just to distract FROM THE FACT HE IS A COLD BLOODED KILLER?

Answer 1

In order to understand how OJ was acquitted, you have to remember the history of distrust that the black community in LA had for the LA police department. Johnnie Cochran and team were able to make the jury believe that by letting OJ off, they were scoring a victory for the community against the LAPD. Read the history of the Geronimo Pratt case and you'll understand better where Johnnie Cochran was coming from. I am not trying to excuse the jury for acquitting a guilty man, but just trying to explain it, and this history is one reason why he was acquitted, and one reason why black people cheered when he was acquitted. The other reason is that the prosecution badly bungled the case, putting on a lot of evidence that was not necessary, and that provided openings for the defense. So that made it easy for the jury to say that they were not deciding guilt or innocence per se, they were deciding whether the prosecution had proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt, which in the jury's opinion they had not. Remember it is not the jury's job to convict every guilty person, and the system does not fail just because some guilty people are not convicted. The system is not designed to convict every guilty person, it is designed to try to prevent innocent people from being convicted wrongly.

Answer 2

Mixed race relations, statiscal studies show that in ethinic/sex views, asian men and black women harbor the most resentment about it, and as I recall the defense got 8 black women on the jury. Plus they convinced the jury that the lead detective was overzealous in his work, to the point of DNA tampering, because he let his desire (and blatant racial remarks) interfere with his judgement. It should have been an easy guilty verdict just like in the subsequent wrongful death civil trial. But that is the difference between a poor person with a public defendant and a rich person with a high profile lawyer. It's also why you need an open mind and can't harbor racist ideology if you are really going to help people or enforce the law. So he literally got away with murder, he is neither the first nor the last but you can always hope that justice will be served upon him yet, freak accidents happen every day.

Answer 3

The defense did a good job of dragging racist practices of Furman and others through the mud, making it a relevant issue. It would have been a much simpler trial if the LA police department didn't have so much dirt to look through to question their integrity so thoroughly.

Its quite possible that the Furman is racist AND Oj is guilty. "Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me."

Answer 4

Black's get the worst treatment in the court system. To see a Black man go free from the murder of two Whites was UNBELIEVABLE. It was all about the scale of (in) justice for Blacks (most times justick is peaking). For Whites many saw him as the obvious murderer because he beat his wife. I think his book was an admission that he knows who did it but he can not say because of who it is (someone close). Bias thoughts will cause a person to be blinded. I don't see him doing this because of his high regard of himself (beneath him/ in an arrogant sense). I suspect who it was and out of guilt he wrote the book to free himself but will never tell. He does have a history before this wife and he was not that loving or shall I say providing...to his first Black wife and children. The mother worked 2 full time jobs while this one got all that money, chilling, getting high, and etc. etc... (God rest her soul)...hating OJ or Black's many has missed who it really was...

Answer 5

The defense and media made it into a race thing. If this was a normal case with normal people he would've been convicted and sentence to death and no one could've cared less. I know quite a few blacks that said he was guilty as hell and some whites who still believe he is innocent. Sad really - no matter if he did or didn't do it, someone got away with murder.

Answer 6

It was about race, but not Mark Furmans! Furman had little credibility, however there was ample evidence, physical evidence, to convect OJ, as he should have been!

Now he wants to write a book on how i Murdered my Wife!!

Sick society that will do anything for money!

Answer 7

I stay in Louisville and that i think of Ruby's had each precise to kick him out. What an astounding sort of folk don't be attentive to is that Ruby's has photos of celebrities all alongthe partitions of the eating place, and Jeff Ruby took OJ's photograph off the wall an prolonged time in the past. the certainty of the issue is, besides the certainty that OJ replaced into in no way convicted, he replaced into held libel for his or her deaths. he's ill and twisted and has considering PROFITED off those murders. He wrote a e book caled "If I did it" for God's sake!!! "If"???? If he did no longer do it, he does no longer have tried a stunt like that. an astounding sort of black, asian, hispanic, and midsection-eastern human beings dine at Ruby's constantly, and Jeff Ruby does not kick them out. the certainty replaced into that Ruby replaced into disillusioned through fact OJ gets interest from the murders, no longer through fact of his Heisman. He replaced into making a fact, asserting, "I actually have a ethical criminal accountability to show those that I won't serve a individual whose repute is extra from murders than activities." he will in all probability sue and win nonetheless, through fact the judicial equipment caters to whiny, racial activists. each and every time something occurs to a minority, they play the race card. it is gets previous.

Answer 8

It never was a race issue. The defense pulled out the so-called "race" card because they knew it was their only defense to save the cold blooded killer. I'm Asian, but I believe O.J. and an accomplice are guilty of the murders.

Answer 9

When one can play an emotional card for what its worth, they will. How do you think Jessie Jackson gets his mass followings? Its not because he has reasonalbe and objective facts to base his argument on.

Answer 10

The race issue was the Mandingo banging the white beauty queen. That bothers old fashioned people.