Loki
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At the expense of a brutally slaughtered white mother and a kind waiter? (because we know if OJ beat the system having killed his black ex-wife and a Black waiter, no one would be cheering). Is that what you chose for a platform paypack?
Because the only people black people were sticking it back to was Marsha Clarke, Chris Darden and judge Ito? That was the legal system OJ was involved with. They were prosecuting and presiding his case. Let's not forget the victims families, either.
I'm sorry Loki, l don't understand why anyone would thuderously support a vile disturbed abusive double murder of innocent people. You can't justify it by saying others got away with murder, because as Roy Innis said, you are no better then.
Did you jubilantly cheer? If so, was it for vengeance?
Im not saying they were right for cheering Bliss, or that OJ was in ANY way deserving of support. What I am saying is that in the Black community there were centuries worth of pent up frustration, injustice, and rage, and many (unwisely) chose the OJ trial verdict as some kind of vindication. Surely you know that to this day many many Black people do not trust the justice system (and for good reason, many stats bear that out), which will lead some to always support almost any Black person being prosecuted no matter how vile or obvious their guilt, they will believe it just might have been a "set up".
To answer your question, no, I did not cheer as it was obvious to me that OJ was guilty, however at the time, most of my extended family did believe OJ was innocent, and turned a blind eye to the evidence, and these are all very intelligent individuals. I remember having knock down, drag out debates about the case, finally, after the years rolled by they all agreed that he is guilty but that is proof how deep the distrust of the American judicial system can run in Black people.
Emmit Till, and countless other Black men wrongly convicted of crimes against White women, are still very powerful reminders to many in the Black community.