Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obvious message that came from this trial is that justice has a dollar value. And because of his money, O.J., a man who assimilated himself into Beverly Hills society and never looked back, has become a false symbol for the injustice that blacks encounter every day in our legal system...
...never been an outspoken proponent of black rights, and the fact that he has become a symbol of racial oppression seems paradoxical. When the race card become his ticket out of jail, he played it. It was not out of a quest for racial equality that the defense team crucified Mark Fuhrman or that Johnnie Cochran spent more time talking about blacks in America than he did about the evidence. It was simply a tactic...
...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...
...plain just how passionately the Simpson case pressed upon the sore spots of the American racial psyche. On Thursday Bill Clinton said he was "concerned" about Cochran's play to racial feeling in his final arguments: "I hope the American people will not let this become some symbol of the larger racial issue in our country...
...City of Angels. To whites, the central issue is whether Simpson is a murderer, while to blacks it is whether the process that brought him to trial was fatally contaminated by racial bias. Simpson is still no hero to most blacks, but he has become an indelible symbol of their mistreatment by white authority. "We always reach out to another black person we perceive as being mistreated by whites because it has happened to so many of us," says Darlene Powell Hopson, a black clinical psychologist. Says political scientist Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile...