OJ Simpson Question.?

Question

Why do all White people say that all black people assume OJ is innocent? I mean just becuse the media showed a couple black people from central LA cheering when OJ was found innocent doesn't mean all black people share the same views. Most black I know call him a sellout anyway. The media have white so fooled on how Blacks really live.

Answer 1

if you did not know about 95% of the population believe whatever they read and watch on TV or news media because they cant think for themselves.

Answer 2

He's just been tried in the "People's Court ( us) we have spoken out loud & they actually heard us & trembled ------- THANKS TO EVERYONE !!! Fox has with drawn their offer to let show air..oj is an idiot,no i wont used upper case for his name,its not a typeo!!I think most blacks know hes guility except the 12 that were on the jury and remember some of the ones that were trying to be objective were throw off the jury.This was a race issue from day 1 -------Reason the judical system did not want to convicte a black celeberity it would have caused too much trouble riots and more deaths similair to the watt affair,but they didnot want him to get off the hook scot free so they selected an uneducated jurythat would not understand the evidence,but they allowed it to be televised so the public could see it and make up their minds and the civil case did the finishing blow with a guilty verdict.The defense team got rich,the victum's familes were awarded a large settlement (if he gets any money it goes to them),oj got branded and has lost all his celeberity status plus his self respect and the whole world is focused on him.Would you want to trade places ?I think they did a pretty good job and most people thinks he got away with it no he didn't just ask him if he told the truth you would see what i mean.Hes under the microscope for the rest of his life//.

Answer 3

I can't say I assume African Americans believe O.J. is innocent. I only know what the media tells me, and what I hear personally. I was not following the trial, (family, school, career got in the way), but I did see the reactions of the people over and over and over again. It is evident in the polls as well as on the television that this country is divided, especially over the O.J. verdict.
I have heard that this is true because African American's do not trust the police whereas caucasians do. I don't know how accurate that is. I have heard that African American's feel they are living in a double world; one being the world they enter at work, or around caucasians, and another being the world of other African Americans. I do not act differently around African Americans anymore than I do other caucasians. If African Americans do act differently, that is a sad sad fact.
So, I say to all those African American's out there, BE YOURSELF. Do not change for anyone, act the way you are. But, do not hinge the guilt or innocense on the African American race on the guilt or innoncense of one measly little man.

Answer 4

You're making a pretty big generalization there. Maybe I can shed a little light on your question, though. When the not-guilty verdict was announced, a black friend of my husband said "We finally won one." The "we" in his statement was referring to black people. It seemed to us that O.J.'s guilt or innocence wasn't really the point in the black community. It was more a reaction to a black man being found not guilty in a court system that sends a disproportionate number of black men to prison.

Answer 5

I think black people were happy to see a verdict that was not against them. For so long it has been if you are black you are guilty, then he was found innocent. I believe the majority of black people know that it was a mockery of justice.