Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elements of the Oklahoma City trial are coming into focus. As the bloody glove, the sock and O.J. Simpson's Rockingham estate finally pass from the scene, the American public will soon become immersed in fresh minutiae: Elliott's Body Shop, ammonium nitrate, the Panthers cap. In this case, as in O.J.'s, the defendant won't be the only one on trial. Citizens will be watching to see how well the government presents its case and how well the legal system serves justice...
Finally, the end appeared to be in sight: the O.J. Simpson civil trial had been handed over to the jury. Then suddenly, some 14 hours into deliberations, a flurry of strange problems arose, delaying and threatening to derail the four-month-old trial...
Then it was too much. It took the media longer than expected to convince the nation that the O.J. Simpson trial was the newest racial battleground in America, but convince us they did. As if it were divine revelation, America unquestioningly accepted this ridiculous conceit to such an extent that it finally became true. After so many months of endless, shameless efforts at story-genesis by a media that needed more to report at the end of a day's testimony in the world's most boring soap opera than "a police detective testified about police detective work," America...
...Howard University Law School that was contrasted with the ashen faces on white main street on the news that night was indeed evidence of something powerful. It did not demonstrate, as is commonly supposed, how the racial divide in the country was the defining factor in the O.J. Simpson trial. Rather, it was an indication that the "race card," as it was so ubiquitously called, had been played, not just with the jury, but with the whole country. By the end of it all, black America had found a most unlikely hero, and white America a most ridiculous enemy...
...driven to reflect on the O.J. saga in its entirety. For myself, I can't help wondering why America was split asunder rather than united in disgust when this man murdered two innocent human beings. At least we may be grateful that the whole sad business of the O.J. Simpson case is over: Reqiescat in pace...