More O.J ., Isn't it time white people got over this one?

Question

I know he did it, but damn. Of course Mr. Cochran used race, so what - race has always been an issue when a black man walks into the court room, blacks are still to this day, given longer sentences for the same crime than whites. White jurors for years have looked at white defendants different that they look at black ones. The black jurors in the o.j. case did the same thing. This was not the biggest travesty in judicial history the way some claim. He was a rich guy who went out and bought better lawyers than the prosecution had. This has been going on for hundreds of years in our court system. I FEEL BAD FOR THE FAMILY.(although they knew o.j. routinely beat her when they were married and allowed him to do it because he gave them money and took them on vactions they couldn't afford) It's impossible for me a black man to look at this case and be upset at the outcome. This is the way the system has always worked.

Answer 1

So... you're not upset...because this is the way it's always worked?

So... If I had kicked the crap out of you every day for as far back as you could remember... would that upset you? Or would that just be how things work?

Also, maybe people aren't "over" the OJ thing, because he's still on the air and getting attention. If people didn't give him attention I would forget there was an OJ Simpson

Answer 2

Oh please. You poor poor black man. You have been handed such a bad hand in the game of life. How can you sit there and say you aren't upset that he got away with murder? OH wait thats because he killed to whites. So he should be able to get away with it. It is people like you that won't drop things that keep discrimination alive...because when I read something like this, it does make me angry and I can see how people would make a more general thought about blacks and dislike them.

Addition: So I get a hate mail from the guy who started this question or his statement rather. He pretty much wanted to tell me that it actually should be ok that he got away with murder, because whites get away with killing blacks all the time and there is " never any outrage about that". Brillant. Just brilliant. Also wanted me to know I proved his point. I guess that he was trying to say that it is ok to be black and hate white people, not ok to be white and dislike blacks. But he missed mine. I was letting him know it is people like him that fuel the racism because of statements like this.

aland...why are you so unhappy...why do you try to spread the hate...why don't you find an approach that isn't abrasive? Do you not see how this kind of statement is wrong? I am not even talking about the moral issue here...but just how what you typed there could piss people off?

Answer 3

I watched the trial of the century and I cheered with many others, why? It was not because he got away with murder but the media turned it into a soap opera and it did not seem real. In a twisted way it provided black america with a taste of what white people had been getting all a long, a free ride because of race. Do I think he did it. Of course I do. Do I think that white people are mulling over it. Maybe. I think that they allow OJ to get under thier skin. When I saw him with the two girls dancing on his lap and yelling life is good. THank you Jesus, I almost fell off my seat laughing because it was obvious what he was doing, he was getting under the skin of people who let him. He got off, end of story.

Answer 4

I am truly not shocked by your comment sir; however, as a 44 yr. old woman i have been consistently proud of the strongest part of my character i embrace and that is i truly am not and never have been a racist. Your comments sadden me sir. you sound as if he was justified in his brutal acts. Sir, it still to this day saddens me as well what went on years ago to obviously innocent black men!!! there are quite a few state attorneys truly attempting to right the wrongs of at least the cases that are still on record for example the disgusting brutal murders gone on blind eyes now no matter how old they are quite afew are now in prison. so you admit that he did it ; then why would you just even single out that just whites are the only ones out raged by the unjust out come? god bless

Answer 5

No. We can work past it, sure. But the blatant racism that allowed a man who killed for racial reasons to walk away with a grin is something most of us will never be able to forget. The black community should hold him accountable. Instead, in many places, he's greeted as a hero.
Fix that, then we can all get over it.

Answer 6

It's sad to hear anyone say they don't mind that the system failed to convict a clearly guilty man. I don't deny your points regarding the inequality of treatment afforded non-caucasians - the statistics tell their own story. But for you not to feel offended that anyone - black or white - can get away with murder because of racial views is disheartening. We must all put aside these attitudes if we are ever to fix our system of justice.

Answer 7

This has nothing to do with the late-Cochran's legal skills. The jury knew that L.A. would riot and they decided the life of a rich white woman and a rich jew were not more important than the lives of the 1,000s of people that would be affected by a race riot.

Answer 8

I think it's about time *people* got over this one.
It was grotesquely fascinating for the public when it first occurred, and every now and then something new develops to bring it back into the spotlight.
We all need to move on...

Answer 9

The first guy is right. And stop being a racist pig! Get over yourself! Why dont you get over the whole O.J trial it was YEARS AGO!!

Answer 10

i think it`s just a shame that 2 young people are dead,i think he did it but when it`s his turn to meet the maker he will get his justice[why in the world would he want to write a hypothetical book.i don`t understand him