Word: simpson
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West also mentioned the O.J. Simpson trial...
...waiting for someone in the media to say something about the grace and dignity of the Simpson family. Eunice Simpson, a woman in her 80s who truly believed her son was innocent, offered not one word of hate or contempt. No matter how you come down on the verdict, you have to admire her courage...
...case of O.J. Simpson, justice was nowhere to be found, but it wasn't being sought after either. What the trial did have to offer, however, was an analysis of racial clashes in America. The positive upshot of the O.J. trial is that America is now thinking--about race, about justice, and about the "problem of the color line...
Maybe members of the jury weren't able to let go of their image of Simpson as a warm, enthusiastic football announcer. Or, even scarier, maybe his guilt was not what they were interested in. But DNA doesn't lie. Conceding that the jury did not want to invoke justice, how did they reconcile freeing O.J.? Proof of the jury's blindness and unwillingness to make O.J. pay was the fact that they took a scant three hours to deliberate over a case that produced 45,000 pages of paper, contained over 1,100 pieces of evidence and lasted nine...
...Simpson, who before the trial did his best to insinuate himself into the predominantly white, rich community where he lives, has now become a symbol for the persecution of blacks. Although he grew up in a bad neighborhood in California and is familiar with racial inequality, he has never made any public efforts to represent the black struggle. He has tried to make the "problem of the color-line" not his problem...