My buddy and I were eating lunch when the verdict came out on the TV. A couple of people started hooping and hollering like Slim Pickens on the back of an H-bomb. I turned to my co-worker as we were heading out the door and suggested we go downtown and riot. We both laughed. White people don't riot.
I remember reading a line that stuck with me: the LA District Attorney's office had managed to frame a guilty man, the most succinct summary ever. He was guilty, and they botched it. All the OJ verdict did was affirm that black millionaires could get away with murder the way white millionaires supposedly had for years. There was no justice, just a sense that, with the right connections, the law didn't apply to you.
We joked over the years about OJ's "search for the killers" on every golf course in America. Apparently they weren't there.
The fact is, the not guilty verdict probably spared the US more murders, arson and rioting, so that's the silver lining?
God knew what happened, and now in the afterlife, the shit's going down.
I was in college during the OJ trial. I did not follow sports, I remembered him from the “Naked Gun” films. It was obvious to me he was guilty( but you are a racist was screamed in my face)so when students started cheering when he was found not guilty I almost puked.
I remember this like it was yesterday (we lived near Dana Point at the time). It was clear that Simpson murdered his ex-wife and her current lover. As with so much today, everyone knows the truth but dares not speak it.
I hadn’t watched TV the night before so I wasn’t aware of the verdict when I went to work the next day. I took BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) into San Francisco the next morning and noticed all of the unsold newspapers stacked on the platform. I remember a Jewish co-worker saying it was the first time he thought of himself being white. People were outraged.
Here in Canada there used to be (still might be, I'm not sure) a weekly newsmagazine called MacLeans, and on the back page was a columnist, Alan Fotheringham, who came up with such quips as 'the jaw that walks like a man' in reference to Brian Mulroney, and 'the Prime Minister who speaks neither of Canada's official languages' in reference to Jean Chretien.
On the topic of OJ, he wrote a column about what he thought happened (I regret that I don't recall every detail of the column, but these few points have always stuck with me and don't reflect any of my own knowledge of the case because I have none). His theory was that if not for the fluke of Nicole forgetting her sunglasses, OJ could have committed the perfect crime. His alibi was set up in advance -- lunch with her and the kids, conversing with Kato (or did they go to MacDonald's together....?) before leaving for Nicole's place, a flight to a previously arranged Hertz commercial (or whatever the event was)..... His day's events all lined up to allow him a small window of opportunity....
It should have / would have been a quick slashing...the evidence in the home was consistent with her knowing whomever was at the door.....except right in the middle of killing her, Goldman showed up with the sunglasses and everything went sideways....
OJ grabbed Goldman from behind, Goldman reached up and grabbed onto OJ's hand and ripped off the glove but not the hand, and in the midst of the struggle likely ripped the knitted cap off OJ's head.
That is about all I remember of the column. I just thought it was an interesting observation..... if not for the fluke of forgetting her sunglasses........
The worst racism is telling people they are so inferior they need to be discriminated in favor of. Great article Ann. There was a brief respite from the hucksters running the show. Then they were put in charge with Obama. Many people held their tongues for eight years about his bad policies and leadership lest they be called racists. A byproduct of this was it helped cement the uniparty in control by masking genuine controversy and concern. Many Americans just waited for the Obama era to be over/ending to express their disgust with the direction of the country and what had been done to it. The media went right along with the Democrats and permanent DC and its Wall Street cabal. Then we got Trump and they brought back the hucksters with a vengeance and we have what we have today. Violence, lawlessness, and mediocrity (at best) running rampant. A veritable parliament of idiots running the country and the cities into the ground and their moronic lap dogs in the media cheering it on. Sad.
Before I go, a note on Molly Ringwald. Many are criticizing her comments about not being about to make the movies she made today with the same cast of white people. She is not wrong. She is wrong if she thinks it was wrong to make them then and that they should not be made today. In the 1980s the US was nearly 80% white, less than 12% black and less than 10% Hispanic. If you give Emilio Estevez some Hispanic credit, the 4 whites and one part Hispanic of the Breakfast Club is about right for a suburban high school detention scene. Even today the breakout is 60% white, 20% Hispanic, and less than 13% black with Asians now making up 6%. But this was the suburbs, so the numbers probably still hold in reality (and my Asian friends were not the detention types). So most of this is PC run amok, now called "DEI." So today the Black and Asian kids need to get detention in movies too- but no jail- that would be Racist- Progress!
It's time for White people to turn tables on Blacks and demand reparations for 60 years of rape, pillage and murder. Today it's the Whites who endure race discrimination and crime from Blacks, not the other way around. So if anyone who deserves reparations it's US, not them!
I believe every black man in a coal burning relationship knows he is nibbling the scraps of Ole Massa's table. Who but a dysgenic reject would quit the cobblestone boulevards of Europe for the tangled wilds of Africa? In triumph the negro is humiliated and driven mad.
Great article, as per usual. OJ’s case made me want to go to law school. Ultimately, it then became the main reason I did not. The lack of justice we saw then, and now see regularly today, have made a mockery of our judicial system.
If you didn't see it after the Rodney King trial, you should have seen it after OJ.
If you didn't see it after OJ, you should have seen it after Katrina.
If you didn't see it after Katrina, you should have seen it after "Hands up, don't shoot!"
If you didn't see it after "Hands up, don't shoot!", you should have seen it after Freddy Gray
If you didn't see it after Freddy Gray, you should have seen it after George Floyd
If you didn't see it after George Floyd, then never mind, because you will never see it.
The age of white guilt should have died out decades ago. Damn, enough is enough. Good piece, Lady Ann.
My buddy and I were eating lunch when the verdict came out on the TV. A couple of people started hooping and hollering like Slim Pickens on the back of an H-bomb. I turned to my co-worker as we were heading out the door and suggested we go downtown and riot. We both laughed. White people don't riot.
I remember reading a line that stuck with me: the LA District Attorney's office had managed to frame a guilty man, the most succinct summary ever. He was guilty, and they botched it. All the OJ verdict did was affirm that black millionaires could get away with murder the way white millionaires supposedly had for years. There was no justice, just a sense that, with the right connections, the law didn't apply to you.
We joked over the years about OJ's "search for the killers" on every golf course in America. Apparently they weren't there.
The fact is, the not guilty verdict probably spared the US more murders, arson and rioting, so that's the silver lining?
God knew what happened, and now in the afterlife, the shit's going down.
Grab your helmet, Juice.
O.J. arrives at the pearly gates to find Saint Peter’s reception desk manned by Norm McDonald.
“So, OhJay,
Good news!”
“This GIANT book says, next to your name, it says:
O.J CAN DEFINITELY GO TO HEAVEN!”
“Oh wait, under that, it says:
UNLESS HE BRUTALLY MURDERED THOSE PEOPLE”
“Darn the luck!”
I was in college during the OJ trial. I did not follow sports, I remembered him from the “Naked Gun” films. It was obvious to me he was guilty( but you are a racist was screamed in my face)so when students started cheering when he was found not guilty I almost puked.
I remember this like it was yesterday (we lived near Dana Point at the time). It was clear that Simpson murdered his ex-wife and her current lover. As with so much today, everyone knows the truth but dares not speak it.
On that day, seeing the cheering, ecstatic reaction of the Howard law students shocked me even more than the verdict itself.
I hadn’t watched TV the night before so I wasn’t aware of the verdict when I went to work the next day. I took BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) into San Francisco the next morning and noticed all of the unsold newspapers stacked on the platform. I remember a Jewish co-worker saying it was the first time he thought of himself being white. People were outraged.
Here in Canada there used to be (still might be, I'm not sure) a weekly newsmagazine called MacLeans, and on the back page was a columnist, Alan Fotheringham, who came up with such quips as 'the jaw that walks like a man' in reference to Brian Mulroney, and 'the Prime Minister who speaks neither of Canada's official languages' in reference to Jean Chretien.
On the topic of OJ, he wrote a column about what he thought happened (I regret that I don't recall every detail of the column, but these few points have always stuck with me and don't reflect any of my own knowledge of the case because I have none). His theory was that if not for the fluke of Nicole forgetting her sunglasses, OJ could have committed the perfect crime. His alibi was set up in advance -- lunch with her and the kids, conversing with Kato (or did they go to MacDonald's together....?) before leaving for Nicole's place, a flight to a previously arranged Hertz commercial (or whatever the event was)..... His day's events all lined up to allow him a small window of opportunity....
It should have / would have been a quick slashing...the evidence in the home was consistent with her knowing whomever was at the door.....except right in the middle of killing her, Goldman showed up with the sunglasses and everything went sideways....
OJ grabbed Goldman from behind, Goldman reached up and grabbed onto OJ's hand and ripped off the glove but not the hand, and in the midst of the struggle likely ripped the knitted cap off OJ's head.
That is about all I remember of the column. I just thought it was an interesting observation..... if not for the fluke of forgetting her sunglasses........
The worst racism is telling people they are so inferior they need to be discriminated in favor of. Great article Ann. There was a brief respite from the hucksters running the show. Then they were put in charge with Obama. Many people held their tongues for eight years about his bad policies and leadership lest they be called racists. A byproduct of this was it helped cement the uniparty in control by masking genuine controversy and concern. Many Americans just waited for the Obama era to be over/ending to express their disgust with the direction of the country and what had been done to it. The media went right along with the Democrats and permanent DC and its Wall Street cabal. Then we got Trump and they brought back the hucksters with a vengeance and we have what we have today. Violence, lawlessness, and mediocrity (at best) running rampant. A veritable parliament of idiots running the country and the cities into the ground and their moronic lap dogs in the media cheering it on. Sad.
Before I go, a note on Molly Ringwald. Many are criticizing her comments about not being about to make the movies she made today with the same cast of white people. She is not wrong. She is wrong if she thinks it was wrong to make them then and that they should not be made today. In the 1980s the US was nearly 80% white, less than 12% black and less than 10% Hispanic. If you give Emilio Estevez some Hispanic credit, the 4 whites and one part Hispanic of the Breakfast Club is about right for a suburban high school detention scene. Even today the breakout is 60% white, 20% Hispanic, and less than 13% black with Asians now making up 6%. But this was the suburbs, so the numbers probably still hold in reality (and my Asian friends were not the detention types). So most of this is PC run amok, now called "DEI." So today the Black and Asian kids need to get detention in movies too- but no jail- that would be Racist- Progress!
It's time for White people to turn tables on Blacks and demand reparations for 60 years of rape, pillage and murder. Today it's the Whites who endure race discrimination and crime from Blacks, not the other way around. So if anyone who deserves reparations it's US, not them!
Thank you Ann for a trip to Paradise Post-OJ. Takeaway: Know your rights. Know your civil rights. Never take them for granted.
I believe every black man in a coal burning relationship knows he is nibbling the scraps of Ole Massa's table. Who but a dysgenic reject would quit the cobblestone boulevards of Europe for the tangled wilds of Africa? In triumph the negro is humiliated and driven mad.
Have you pray’d tonight, Desdemona?
Genius
Great article, as per usual. OJ’s case made me want to go to law school. Ultimately, it then became the main reason I did not. The lack of justice we saw then, and now see regularly today, have made a mockery of our judicial system.
Ann Coulter at her best! Racial demagoguery has to be exposed over and over again!