RIP, I guess?
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Wow... I didn't know he was the inspiration for Forrest Gump and his leg braces. (Well, he probably wasn't, but he did have leg braces from rickets.)
His LA Times Obit.https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2024-04-11/oj-simpson-dead
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I was working downtown LA while the trial was going on, just a block from the courthouse. What a zoo.
@Mik said in RIP, I guess?:
I was working downtown LA while the trial was going on, just a block from the courthouse. What a zoo.
You racist bastard.
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Speaking of NPR:
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I have always suspected it was his son.
@LuFins-Dad said in RIP, I guess?:
I have always suspected it was his son.
That's not the point and you know it. How DARE NPR not mention his ACTING career?!
P.S. Also, fuck O.J.
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Couple takes from a blog:
"OJ Died today...
...And he died on the same day as the guy who murdered his wife and Ron Goldman, how's that for a coincidence?
My 19 YO son asked me about the trial and what it meant, and this is what I told him. “The racial rot in this country goes back to that trial. By the 90s, racism was dead. Nobody cared anymore. Oh, there were scattered individual racists, there always will be, but we had racism beaten as a society. But the race hustlers were realizing that if we had beaten racism, their gravy train was derailing. So they cast the trial as being about OJ being black, and not about whether he had killed 2 people.
I watched the trial with my boss at the time. He was a black man, college educated, upper middle class, whom I'd known for a couple of years, and I don't think the subject of race ever came up between us. Like I said, nobody cared. We were work friends. When the verdict was read, he stood and cheered. I just stared at him. I didn't understand then that if there was no significant racism in America, there was no need for the race hustlers. I draw a direct line from that trial to the DEI madness that's ripping this country apart today. And the race hustlers are richer than ever."
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Couple takes from a blog:
"OJ Died today...
...And he died on the same day as the guy who murdered his wife and Ron Goldman, how's that for a coincidence?
My 19 YO son asked me about the trial and what it meant, and this is what I told him. “The racial rot in this country goes back to that trial. By the 90s, racism was dead. Nobody cared anymore. Oh, there were scattered individual racists, there always will be, but we had racism beaten as a society. But the race hustlers were realizing that if we had beaten racism, their gravy train was derailing. So they cast the trial as being about OJ being black, and not about whether he had killed 2 people.
I watched the trial with my boss at the time. He was a black man, college educated, upper middle class, whom I'd known for a couple of years, and I don't think the subject of race ever came up between us. Like I said, nobody cared. We were work friends. When the verdict was read, he stood and cheered. I just stared at him. I didn't understand then that if there was no significant racism in America, there was no need for the race hustlers. I draw a direct line from that trial to the DEI madness that's ripping this country apart today. And the race hustlers are richer than ever."
@George-K said in RIP, I guess?:
Couple takes from a blog:
"OJ Died today...
...And he died on the same day as the guy who murdered his wife and Ron Goldman, how's that for a coincidence?
My 19 YO son asked me about the trial and what it meant, and this is what I told him. “The racial rot in this country goes back to that trial. By the 90s, racism was dead. Nobody cared anymore. Oh, there were scattered individual racists, there always will be, but we had racism beaten as a society. But the race hustlers were realizing that if we had beaten racism, their gravy train was derailing. So they cast the trial as being about OJ being black, and not about whether he had killed 2 people.
I watched the trial with my boss at the time. He was a black man, college educated, upper middle class, whom I'd known for a couple of years, and I don't think the subject of race ever came up between us. Like I said, nobody cared. We were work friends. When the verdict was read, he stood and cheered. I just stared at him. I didn't understand then that if there was no significant racism in America, there was no need for the race hustlers. I draw a direct line from that trial to the DEI madness that's ripping this country apart today. And the race hustlers are richer than ever."
The blogger is mistaken. The OJ trial was only 30 years since the Selma March, 20 years since the Black Panthers came to prominence, 15 years since Biden was openly worrying about racial jungles, and (most importantly) only 3 years after Rodney King and the riots. Rodney King set the stage for the racial tensions over OJ .
I will agree that progress had been made and continued to be made up and until 2008. But there were underlying problems happening simultaneously. The destruction of the Black family unit…
Blaming the OJ trial for the rise of DEI is ridiculous, IMO.
The Brad
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When I read it, my first thought, as well, was that the watershed moment might have been Rodney King, rather than OJ. There's an interview with one of the jurors who said that they were "90% sure" that OJ was guilty, but this was "revenge."
I was in the OR lounge when the verdict was announced. My observations of the reactions of the people in the lounge as similar to what he says.
As far as DEI, yeah, but...I see it as a sideways path to "reparations."
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@George-K said in RIP, I guess?:
Couple takes from a blog:
"OJ Died today...
...And he died on the same day as the guy who murdered his wife and Ron Goldman, how's that for a coincidence?
My 19 YO son asked me about the trial and what it meant, and this is what I told him. “The racial rot in this country goes back to that trial. By the 90s, racism was dead. Nobody cared anymore. Oh, there were scattered individual racists, there always will be, but we had racism beaten as a society. But the race hustlers were realizing that if we had beaten racism, their gravy train was derailing. So they cast the trial as being about OJ being black, and not about whether he had killed 2 people.
I watched the trial with my boss at the time. He was a black man, college educated, upper middle class, whom I'd known for a couple of years, and I don't think the subject of race ever came up between us. Like I said, nobody cared. We were work friends. When the verdict was read, he stood and cheered. I just stared at him. I didn't understand then that if there was no significant racism in America, there was no need for the race hustlers. I draw a direct line from that trial to the DEI madness that's ripping this country apart today. And the race hustlers are richer than ever."
The blogger is mistaken. The OJ trial was only 30 years since the Selma March, 20 years since the Black Panthers came to prominence, 15 years since Biden was openly worrying about racial jungles, and (most importantly) only 3 years after Rodney King and the riots. Rodney King set the stage for the racial tensions over OJ .
I will agree that progress had been made and continued to be made up and until 2008. But there were underlying problems happening simultaneously. The destruction of the Black family unit…
Blaming the OJ trial for the rise of DEI is ridiculous, IMO.
@LuFins-Dad said in RIP, I guess?:
@George-K said in RIP, I guess?:
Couple takes from a blog:
"OJ Died today...
...And he died on the same day as the guy who murdered his wife and Ron Goldman, how's that for a coincidence?
My 19 YO son asked me about the trial and what it meant, and this is what I told him. “The racial rot in this country goes back to that trial. By the 90s, racism was dead. Nobody cared anymore. Oh, there were scattered individual racists, there always will be, but we had racism beaten as a society. But the race hustlers were realizing that if we had beaten racism, their gravy train was derailing. So they cast the trial as being about OJ being black, and not about whether he had killed 2 people.
I watched the trial with my boss at the time. He was a black man, college educated, upper middle class, whom I'd known for a couple of years, and I don't think the subject of race ever came up between us. Like I said, nobody cared. We were work friends. When the verdict was read, he stood and cheered. I just stared at him. I didn't understand then that if there was no significant racism in America, there was no need for the race hustlers. I draw a direct line from that trial to the DEI madness that's ripping this country apart today. And the race hustlers are richer than ever."
The blogger is mistaken. The OJ trial was only 30 years since the Selma March, 20 years since the Black Panthers came to prominence, 15 years since Biden was openly worrying about racial jungles, and (most importantly) only 3 years after Rodney King and the riots. Rodney King set the stage for the racial tensions over OJ .
I will agree that progress had been made and continued to be made up and until 2008. But there were underlying problems happening simultaneously. The destruction of the Black family unit…
Blaming the OJ trial for the rise of DEI is ridiculous, IMO.
I think his overall point was correct, though. Racially, we were better off in the 90s.
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It was not the main focus of every day life as it is now. Turn on any network TV and it's black this, black that, staffed with black people. How much attention is enough? I'll be the first one to acknowledge their contributions to our society, both good and bad. just as I would any other group. But none of that will ever negate the underlying victim culture being sold.
