Word: racism
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West, professor of Afro-American studies and professor of the philosophy of religion at the Divinity School, said that a legacy of racism and the effects of a market culture undermined the democratic tradition...
...L.A.P.D. has a lot of racists, and racism certainly clouded the judgment of some of the officers and evidence collectors involved in this case. There should be repercussions for this, and there should be retribution. But is it revenge to free a man viewed by many as a murderer, or is it simply cutting off one's nose to spite one's face...
That outcome would appall Larry Miller, a white man who owns a Chicago hot-dog stand. "If white people yell racism, we're bigots. If a black person yells it, it has to be true. I've never known racism to be an excuse for murder...
Clark, who has won 20 felony cases and has not lost one in almost 10 years, says the evidence against Simpson is as strong as any she has argued. But it took her too long to understand that Fuhrman's virulent racism, which she recognized early, could poison the entire prosecution case. "Marcia knew Fuhrman was a bad cop, but she felt certain he hadn't planted evidence," says a deputy district attorney in her office. "They felt they could use Fuhrman anyway. Well, you can't use a racist cop. If you know...
...afford legal representation, and about whom we hear nothing. Likewise, Nicole Simpson is not Everyvictim, and Mark Fuhrman is not Everyracist. When we create these false archetypes as a culture, we avoid confronting the very real systemic issues and problems that are elements of the trial: violence toward women; racism; and our national obsession with celebrity, race, sex and money. Whatever the verdict, I don't think the O.J. Simpson trial will have a deep, profound or lasting resonance in American culture. It will not be transformative. It's a bad miniseries gone out of control...