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...King-like integration efforts, no more mushy sentiments like Black and White kids holding hands. Farrakhan & Co, are separatist radicals who believe that there is no justice in America, except for that disbursed by O.J.'s acquittal. Conrad Muhammed declared to the Los Angeles Times, referring to the infamous verdict, "It's a justice system that for a change has worked. The jury believed that that racist character (Fuhrman) laid that evidence." Yet after boxer Mike Tyson was convicted of rape some years ago, Muhammed told The Bergen Record that the guilty verdict was invalid because "Indiana is the home...
...m.p.h. a few hours earlier, hadn't dropped to a howling but less than apocalyptic 144 m.p.h. when landfall occurred. Or if the tens of thousands of people living along the sugar-white beaches of Florida's panhandle hadn't torn themselves away from TV coverage of the Simpson verdict in time to flee the hurricane headed their...
They were united, briefly, in an anxious silence of the heart. As soon as the verdict was read, however, they split apart; they could watch themselves do it on the split screens. On one side jubilation, on the other dismay. Afterward it was said that America should have seen this coming, that the division of the races cut so deep, it ought to have been obvious that two nations had always been hiding...
Many white people, liberals especially, said that it had not been obvious to them at all. Yet when they gave the matter a minute's thought, they wondered why they had been so ready to praise the jury, which included nine African Americans, as unbiased if the verdict had been guilty. If one believed the jurors could honestly find the circumstantial evidence overwhelming, could they not also, just as honestly, find it unpersuasive? No, it was not the jury that was thinking in terms of categorical behavior; it was much of white America. And if that were so, the shock...
...white or black, the American public agreed that the trial was aboveboard: A majority of whites had said the trial was fair in a CBS News poll the week before the verdict, and the number rose after the decision was announced. For blacks, the number doubled over the same time period, from four in 10 to eight...