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Cochran said O.J. Simpson and the defense team were pursuing several investigative leads to bring the murderer or murderers to justice, but that the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office was not making similar attempts...
...reference to Cochran's role as lead defense attorney in the Simpson trial, Jenkins said, "For every second that ticked [during the trial], things changed in America for the Black Lawyer...
...blacks. Those facts are complicated now as never before by the economic squeeze on people of all races in America. It makes many whites more impatient with black demands and provides an opening for demagogues of every stripe. But just two weeks after the verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial, the march was another reminder that race is the inescapable complication of American life. "The Million Man March altered the landscape," says Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Henry Cisneros. "Americans know that things are profoundly wrong. The question now is where do we go from here...
...country. The attitude is that it was a horrible marriage from the start and has long since dissolved in chronic dysfunction, occasional riot and permanent mutual contempt. Why keep the ugly, abusive charade going? (Was it some such domestic metaphor playing in the unconscious mind that made the Simpson case so fascinating...
...With the Simpson verdict and with the country about to turn the autumn corner into the 1996 presidential election, I keep returning to the sentiment that Americans could find, if they were looking, in the old hymn "Lord, plant my feet on higher ground." King was right: The content of one's character, not the color of one's skin, is what matters. Stop defining people by color, by groups (blacks, whites, Asians, gays). Stop practicing the politics of tribal identity. But you would have to rescind a universe of political correctness and poisonous identity politics in order to restore...