I have the same answer as you on (1) and (2). Even though for (2), I think O.J. deserves to be treated by-the-book not because he got away the first time because of racism. I will feel the exact same way if I know for sure a white man got away for lynching a black man in the past. I’ll take advantage of every opportunity to dump the book on him and get him the maximum sentence for whatever I can convict him with. Your answer to (3) is where the problem lies. As civilized human beings, we NEED to feel the same way whenever a man murdered his wife and another person by slashing their throats so deep that the victims were practically decapitated. Black or white, think about the fear and pain the victims suffered when O.J.’s knife ran through their jugulars. To say that there are some macro-factors by which you will only feel for the victims if they were blacks put you on the same mindset as those KKKs who brutally murdered black folks. Their arguments have always been that blacks were less of a human being and that we don’t need to feel for them like we feel for whites. You just can’t overcome racism until you recognize there are values in our society we need to uphold despite of racism. To short change those values in the name of race is what make a person racist in the first place. On the top of the list is the equal right to life for Nicole and Ron as well as all the black murder victims.

OK Jack let me spell it out for you

This whole OJ thing is about and always was about racism. See Jack white folks still have not got over that OJ was acquitted for those brutal killings. Like I said before if you have read if Nicole Brown Simpson where a black woman who was killed it may of gotten on or two headlines in the news. Instead of seeing that one person killed two people regardless of the color of the victims or killers white America saw a prominent established black man get away with murder. If you choose to read objectively most of the comments here you can see the contempt most folks have for OJ and that contempt derives directly from the OJ case. Let me ask you a question Jack if Nicole Brown Simpson had never been killed and OJ got arrested for what happened in Vegas would there be so much contempt for OJ? I think not, when most white people hear the name Orenthal James Simpson they do think about a man who won the highly coveted Heisman trophy award, they don’t think of the first man in the NFL to rush for over 2000 yds in a single season, or the man who used to be the pitch man for Hertz running through all the airports for their commercials. The only thing most whites see when the hear OJ is that he killed his wife and and nice young white man. So Jack you asked me in your won words “But what does it have to do with the O.J. Simpson case which IS the subject here?” I think I just answered your question with a bit of intelligence. And I will answer the rest of your questions

(1) Justice is never served when a guilty man goes free
(2) I do not think OJ can ever be fairly treated in any case after the acquittal
(3) I would not feel the same way if OJ were white and Nicole were black simply because there would not be the level of contempt from whites. If OJ where white I can 100% be sure we WOULD not be having this discussion. Hundreds of people unfortunately get killed in America every year but no one gets more villified than OJ and that Jack is simply because of who he is and who were the victims. Race has had everything to do with it from day one.

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You just don’t get it do you? I don’t dispute what you said about racism and slavery and all that. But what does it have to do with the O.J. Simpson case which IS the subject here? Are you intellectually capable of separating the two? So if you don’t mind, here is a few questions on which I’d like to hear your HONEST opinion:

(1) Do you think justice was served in the verdict of the 95′ O.J Simpson case?
(2) Do you think O.J. Simpson is being treated fairly in the current case?
(3) Would you honestly feel the same way if O.J. were white and Nicole and Ron were blacks?

YES or NO answer will suffice.

Get off it jack blacks have been dying at the hands of whites since we all arrived on this continent and it still continues. My views are not skewed at all, I think with an open mind and I see what I see not because I look for it either. Let me clue you in on something. I’m 43 years old I spent 17 years living in Europe. Ten years in Italy, three years in Germany, and 4 years in England while I was in the Air Force. I also spent many months in southwest and southeast Asia. My career field was Law Enforcement and Security. Everywhere I went I had the opportunity to mingle with the locals, especially while I was stationed in Europe. As a black man I can say this while I was serving our country overseas I was treated like a man first seen as an American first not a man of color. The only time I ever experienced any racial issues was from my fellow Americans how sad that was. The Italians, Germans, and Brits treated me far better then my fellow Americans. As soon as I returned back to the US I was quickly reminded the our society sees me as a black man first and an American second. See Jack you still don’t get it. As long as we continue as we are today we will never get past this great American racial divide. It strikes me funny that our government spent millions to build a Holocaust museum when Americans were not involved in the slaughter of 6 million Jews, but as of today 12 January 2008 not a penny is spent to build a museum or memorial for the 100 millions slaves that died over a 400 year period. Slavery is the greatest tragedy in the history of mankind. We (US Gov’t) have apologized the Japanese Americans for putting them in camps during WWII yet no apology has ever been given for slavery and all of its ills. The Whitehouse is the symbol worldwide for Democracy and Freedom, but it is a house built by slaves. I find that ironic. Our memories of racism in America is not what is keeping us forever victims of racism. What keeps us forever in a state of racism is that we are still at times treated like second class citizens. Take hurricane Katrina for example It took 5 days for federal gov’t to act. I spent 24 years in the US Air Force and I am somewhat familiar with our ability to air drop supplies. Jack 5 days, I bet if that was Hollywood CA it would have been 5 hours. Jack did you see the unending volumes of victims and what color they were? Did you hear the news reporters classify all the poor folks as “refugees.” In my 43 years on earth I never heard, not even once can I recall a white American being called a “refugee” while he or she was in the borders of their own country. See Jack you are right Civil rights is a two way thing and when whites (the overall majority) start crying foul when bad things happen to all people not just whites the healing will start.

Where in my message did I say that racism doesn’t exist in America. As a matter of fact, I believe that it does. Your suggestion of imagining yourself (or others) as person of the other race is a great way to determine if you are thinking rationally in a given matter or are your judgement being paralyed by the memory of historical discriminations. Now just tell me how you would feel about the 95′ case if O.J. were white and Nicole and Ron were blacks. Would you still feel the 95′ jury have exerted justice on the case or would you feel the opposite? Just tell me. And be honest. My point is that letting your judgement constantly impaired by your overwhelming feeling of racism, however justified, will forever keep you and your people victims of racism. Civil rights is a two way thing and it starts with how each individual truly thinks.

You are just one of those white folks who again simply refuse to acknowledge that racism in America still exist. Boy I wish I could have hook you up with a make up artist and make you a black man for one day. I will get over racism when first you white folks get over O.J. second when pregnant black women stop getting pulled over by the cops and ordered to lay on her stomach for merely driving a car the looked like one that was used in a crime. When a white women who was driving a similar vehicle was pulled over she wasn’t treated that way. How about when a 91 year old black women was in her home in Atlanta had cops bust down her door and shot her to death because a snitch gave them the wrong address. Jack tell me please how many elderly white women die at the hands of police? How about the story where a deaf black man exited his shower in his home only to find cops pointing guns at him and shouting at him, now this man is deaf mind you he can’t hear them so what happens to him he got tasered. The cops didn’t see that the man was only dressed in a towel and advised them he was deaf and couldn’t hear them, but no all they saw was a black man who was not listening to them so they tasered him. I spent 24 years in law enforcement my dear Jack I don’t ever remember being told to use force on unarmed civilians. See Jack you need to come down off your white horse and smell the coffee.

Now, let’s just go get the REAL killers…

BUSH and Co! =)