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...many observers this tactic backfired, making Shipp more sympathetic, rather than less credible. Simpson was furious. From jail, he organized a telephone conference with the Dream Team and announced, "I'll decide who the running backs are in this game!" Says writer-producer Larry Schiller, who co-wrote Simpson's most recent book, I Want to Tell You: "The Shipp thing brought a sense of immediacy to the trial for O.J. The trial was like the Gaud? mosaic in Barcelona. That was the day O.J. truly understood that any little stone out of place could cause him to spend...
...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...
...know their justified rage can be exploited, and have schooled themselves to distinguish between cynical appeals to their sense of racial injustice and valid pleas for the unjustly accused. What infuriates them is that whites often fail to make equivalent distinctions, dismissing blacks' protests against racist mistreatment as a tactic without bothering to investigate the mistreatment itself. And that is why the Simpson case is so divisive. Until blacks are convinced that the cops and the prosecutors are dealing fairly with them, they won't listen to anything else...
Blacks seethe when Cochran's attack on Detecttive Fuhrman is denigrated in the white-controlled media as merely "playing the race card." Such a tactic could hardly have been avoided in a case that, in Hacker's phrase,"was dripping with race" from the start. How could it have been otherwise when a black man stood accused of cutting the throats of two white people in a city that exploded just 3 1/2 years ago after four white cops who beat Rodney King were set free by a jury from which blacks were conspicuously absent? Few would disagree with Thelma...
...hold short and swift hearings on the $182 billion cost-savings plan--as well as on the even more controversial G.O.P. Medicare overhaul--prompted a full-scale rebellion by Democrats, who held alternative "hearings" on the lawn of the Capitol. The party leadership vowed to use every stalling tactic at its disposal to prevent the plans from being rammed through...