Almost EVERY local TV station says “Simpson went to Galileo High and USC”, which is lousy reporting - Simpson spent as much time at CCSF as he did at USC. Further, he actually studied at CCSF, but was handsomely paid at USC.
Is that why he became an acclaimed athlete or why he became a wife beater? Who the f**k cares where he went to school? The important thing is he lost his "hero" status despite the verdict. And he lived with shame and denial the rest of his days. The sports angle of his career is as irrelevant as his pathetic acting attempts. A killer is a killer is a killer. Simpson was a viscious killer. Finis.
Mentioning Simpson's athletic career and not the double homicide is like talking about Mussolini and how he kept the trains running on time and nothing else . OJ flushed any cache he had when he killed those two
I'll bet the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman wish they could have celebrated their 76th birthdays. Is being an athlete so important in our culture that it eclipses the fact that a man brutally murdered two people? A "great season" is bupkiss when your legacy is murder. I'll never understand sports fans. Any media a*shole who waxes poetic about OJ's football prowess over reminding us he was first and foremost a wife beater and a murderer should be fired.
Is there anything more anti American than continuing to accuse a man of murder after he was completely exonerated by a jury of his peers? Why don’t you direct your bitterness and vitriol towards that racist a-hole Mark Furman, the forensics team and the history of racism at LAPD.
Anyone with more than three brain cells know he did it. They just couldn’t prove it because the prosecutors were incompetent and the jury was racist and unwilling to convict a hero. Plenty of innocent people are found guilty. Plenty of guilty people are found innocent.
Black jurors admitted after the trial that OJ was in fact guilty. The verdict was simply in response to the Rodney King besting. Ironically, OJ set the course for Obama, BLM and the Chauvin verdict.
Racism in LA, sure. Inept prosecution, certainly. Dream Team of defense lawyers, the best money could buy. But he WAS convicted in the civil trial where they proved the size 12 Bruno Magli footprints were from his shoes. He was a known documented, wife beater prior to this tragedy, but seemed to be given a pass ny the male powers that be simply because of his football prowess and cache that that entails. Because in the minds of some men with a badge, black or white, a football star eclipses a whiny woman who was "just asking for it anyway." Then a 34 year old woman and a 25 year old man were horrifically murdered, children were left motherless, families destroyed. That's what happens when we make a diety out of a celebrity. I'm a native San Franciscan. Until this happened I was proud he was one of us. No more, needless to say. Stop trying to make this racial. A man with toxic jealousy/ego issues brutally stabbed his estranged wife and her friend because his inflated broken ego couldn't take the rejection. He happened to be black. His victims happened to be white. END OF STORY
!1:13 Couldn't agree with you more, shows you're highly intelligient and you could've been the prosecutor but unfortunately some juries votes along racial lines
Thank you for the compliments, 3:08 & 5:23...I certainly call out racism when I see it. Sadly, there's a lot out there to call. Blacks have been historically abused and unfairly accused of crimes and that is wrong. But I bristle when ANY race, gender or lifestyle is painted with a broad brush. The quintessential "they all are/they all do..." scenarios make my blood boil.
@ 8:31 Couldn't agree with you more, I also bristle when some of my "friends" say "all Asians are...." boils my blood also because I've a lots of Asians friends and not all of them are the "same" depicted by my other "friends"
Almost EVERY local TV station says “Simpson went to Galileo High and USC”, which is lousy reporting - Simpson spent as much time at CCSF as he did at USC. Further, he actually studied at CCSF, but was handsomely paid at USC.
ReplyDeleteIs that why he became an acclaimed athlete or why he became a wife beater? Who the f**k cares where he went to school? The important thing is he lost his "hero" status despite the verdict. And he lived with shame and denial the rest of his days. The sports angle of his career is as irrelevant as his pathetic acting attempts. A killer is a killer is a killer. Simpson was a viscious killer. Finis.
DeletePapa did preface his opening statement by saying it was purely about Simpson the athlete, which I thought was fine.
ReplyDeleteYeah, we'll let Henry Louis Gates talk about Simpson the man.
DeleteMentioning Simpson's athletic career and not the double homicide is like talking about Mussolini and how he kept the trains running on time and nothing else
Delete. OJ flushed any cache he had when he killed those two
12:40.. OJ tried to dump his "cache" of incriminating murder items. His actions in this matter devastated much of his "cachet".
DeleteI'll bet the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman wish they could have celebrated their 76th birthdays. Is being an athlete so important in our culture that it eclipses the fact that a man brutally murdered two people? A "great season" is bupkiss when your legacy is murder. I'll never understand sports fans. Any media a*shole who waxes poetic about OJ's football prowess over reminding us he was first and foremost a wife beater and a murderer should be fired.
ReplyDeleteIs there anything more anti American than continuing to accuse a man of murder after he was completely exonerated by a jury of his peers? Why don’t you direct your bitterness and vitriol towards that racist a-hole Mark Furman, the forensics team and the history of racism at LAPD.
ReplyDeleteAnyone with more than three brain cells know he did it. They just couldn’t prove it because the prosecutors were incompetent and the jury was racist and unwilling to convict a hero. Plenty of innocent people are found guilty. Plenty of guilty people are found innocent.
DeleteBlack jurors admitted after the trial that OJ was in fact guilty. The verdict was simply in response to the Rodney King besting. Ironically, OJ set the course for Obama, BLM and the Chauvin verdict.
DeleteRacism in LA, sure. Inept prosecution, certainly. Dream Team of defense lawyers, the best money could buy. But he WAS convicted in the civil trial where they proved the size 12 Bruno Magli footprints were from his shoes. He was a known documented, wife beater prior to this tragedy, but seemed to be given a pass ny the male powers that be simply because of his football prowess and cache that that entails. Because in the minds of some men with a badge, black or white, a football star eclipses a whiny woman who was "just asking for it anyway." Then a 34 year old woman and a 25 year old man were horrifically murdered, children were left motherless, families destroyed. That's what happens when we make a diety out of a celebrity. I'm a native San Franciscan. Until this happened I was proud he was one of us. No more, needless to say. Stop trying to make this racial. A man with toxic jealousy/ego issues brutally stabbed his estranged wife and her friend because his inflated broken ego couldn't take the rejection. He happened to be black. His victims happened to be white. END OF STORY
ReplyDelete1:13, thank you for the sanest comment of the day.
Delete!1:13 Couldn't agree with you more, shows you're highly intelligient and you could've been the prosecutor but unfortunately some juries votes along racial lines
DeleteThank you for the compliments, 3:08 & 5:23...I certainly call out racism when I see it. Sadly, there's a lot out there to call. Blacks have been historically abused and unfairly accused of crimes and that is wrong. But I bristle when ANY race, gender or lifestyle is painted with a broad brush. The quintessential "they all are/they all do..." scenarios make my blood boil.
Delete@ 8:31 Couldn't agree with you more, I also bristle when some of my "friends" say "all Asians are...." boils my blood also because I've a lots of Asians friends and not all of them are the "same" depicted by my other "friends"
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