why were the black people happy for the OJ simson verdict and the white people were shocked?

Question

I watched disorder in the court on court tv and thats what i heard and saw.Im black and did not realy cear that much.

Answer 1

he probably is guilty but the prosecutors just did an awful job. and shitty work that the defense team poked holes in. the only reason he was cheered on is because of the injustice that have plague the black people. his victory wasn't about truth it was simply a black man won something.

Answer 2

No. a lot of an identical people who're helping Trayvon Martin applauded while the OJ verdict became into introduced. i became into in a activities bar and each black individual there have been given up and applauded on an identical time as each white individual sat there in entire disbelief yet there have been no marches or riots after the OJ verdict. bear in concepts that OJ and Casey Anthony the two have been given off while there became right into a lot greater data against them than there became into interior the Zimmerman trial. All those marching needed him tried in courtroom. He became into tried and acquitted yet they nonetheless decide to break Zimmerman. this way of individual who has convicted Zimmerman interior the concepts will continually choose each thing to flow the way they think of it is going to flow, top or incorrect.

Answer 3

Whether black people thought he was innocent or guilty they just wanted to see a black man in a white court get off. To me he was very guilty and I was only 14 when the incident occurred. Now with his new book What If I Did It....it only makes him look guiltier.

Answer 4

I think the media twisted that a bit... it was right after the rodney king thing... so racial tension was high...

Some black folks didn't want him to be guilty because they didn't want white people to think badly of them as a race and they may have suspected he was innocent because so many black people are sent to jail for the same things that white people get away with...

I don't know how old you are but for many years before that trial there was a whole string of white ladies that were robbing and killing their own families and blaming it on the infamous "black guy who came out of nowhere"...
Some black people may have thought this was another one of those cases...

Answer 5

Because the victims are white and the accused was black. This was the time when the beating of a black motorist by white cops were still fresh on peoples mind. In a lot of Blacks and Whites the trial was about racial issues. Forgetting that it was about a double murder with a potential killer on trial.

Answer 6

its that old, the Black Man VS. the White Power

it was just one of those racism kind of things. i dont see why anyone would have anything against any race but people still do (racism goes both ways, not just white against black like the media portrays it).

it was also really wierd how it all came out.
it just turned into a racism case, by the end it wasnt even about the murder.
it also turns out that the jury was made up of predominently black... females... i think...
eh, the trial and all the contraversy makes it onto the history channel and discovery channel every now and then.

Answer 7

I'm white and I wasn't shocked. I left the whole thing to the jury, because they heard the actual evidence, not what the media thought or said.

Answer 8

I know a lot of black people who were shocked.

Answer 9

Because black people have little ears, that just don't want to hear it. Actually, a lot of the prosecutions case was not allowed in evidence.

Answer 10

If I had to guess, I would say that most black people thought that he was innocent, and most white people thought that he was guilty.