OJ book/TV cancelled

[mightymouse72]

So you're saying that with time, more evidence has come to light which has caused people who believed the lie to come to their senses and see the obvious?

i don't believe there could be anymore evidence against the man.  they had everything possible to convict him short of a video.  people just wanted him found not guilty because of all the racial issues brought into the trial by jonnie cochran-lord rest his soul.  oj could have confessed and the jury would have said not guilty. 

all the racial tension about the trial is gone so i think people just don't care anymore.  plus he was found responsible for the deaths in another trial so that may have opened peoples eyes. 

[240 is Back]

i don't believe there could be anymore evidence against the man.  they had everything possible to convict him short of a video.  people just wanted him found not guilty because of all the racial issues brought into the trial by jonnie cochran-lord rest his soul.  oj could have confessed and the jury would have said not guilty. 

all the racial tension about the trial is gone so i think people just don't care anymore.  plus he was found responsible for the deaths in another trial so that may have opened peoples eyes. 

So people ignored the physical evidence because of the racial hatred they had?  It clouded their ability to see what was clear to everyone else?

[mightymouse72]

So people ignored the physical evidence because of the racial hatred they had?  It clouded their ability to see what was clear to everyone else?

10-4
racial hatred might be a strong term, but you are correct sir.

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10-4
racial hatred might be a strong term, but you are correct sir.

I think that very series of events could happen in other things too.

Like, all the physical evidence pointed at OJ. yet because one racial group resented another group so badly, they were able to completely ignore the evidence (he was cut for gods sake, there was goldman's blood everywhere in his car) and actually cheer for a murderer.

With time, though, people were able to 'step back' from the event, and look at facts, look at OJ's behavior afterwards, and quietly realize "shit, maybe he did kill them." 

I bet they called white people "racists", "crazy", and other mean names because they were blinded by their hatred for another race, and fear of them as well.  As time passed, the evidence remained when the fear and racial resentment subsided.

And it will happen again.

[Dos Equis]

i was watching a brief story about the oj trial on tv last week.  they showed the footage of the "black community" cheering when the verdict was read.

it made sick to the pit of my soul to watch that again.  just as bad as the day it happened.     &   

Coincidentally, I just watched an OJ documentary with my students last week.  The reaction selectively showed by the media was blacks cheering and whites jeering (and crying).  The trial and verdict really exposed the race problems that still exist in this country.   

[Dos Equis]

i don't believe there could be anymore evidence against the man.  they had everything possible to convict him short of a video.  people just wanted him found not guilty because of all the racial issues brought into the trial by jonnie cochran-lord rest his soul.  oj could have confessed and the jury would have said not guilty. 

all the racial tension about the trial is gone so i think people just don't care anymore.  plus he was found responsible for the deaths in another trial so that may have opened peoples eyes. 

So why did the two whites and one Hispanic on the jury vote to acquit? 

[mightymouse72]

So why did the two whites and one Hispanic on the jury vote to acquit? 

pressure

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pressure

this is so true dude.  It'd take a lot of courage to stand up and look at the evidence, and try to overcome the emotion surrounding it.

[Dos Equis]

pressure

   So the big bad black ladies on the jury must have ganged up on the poor white and Hispanic jurors?  I guess people who think the verdict was race-based have to come up with some excuse for the fact that the jury was not all black. 

[mightymouse72]

I think that very series of events could happen in other things too.

Like, all the physical evidence pointed at OJ. yet because one racial group resented another group so badly, they were able to completely ignore the evidence (he was cut for gods sake, there was goldman's blood everywhere in his car) and actually cheer for a murderer.

With time, though, people were able to 'step back' from the event, and look at facts, look at OJ's behavior afterwards, and quietly realize "shit, maybe he did kill them." 

I bet they called white people "racists", "crazy", and other mean names because they were blinded by their hatred for another race, and fear of them as well.  As time passed, the evidence remained when the fear and racial resentment subsided.

And it will happen again.

i don't think those people will ever admit, not publicly anyway, that oj is really guilty.  pride. 

and it is happening now.  how about the duke lacrosse players.  when all this first came out, every black man with the word Rev. in front of his name was pissing and moaning about how no charges were being filed against the players and just pretty much convicting them in the media.  now that the accuser is found to be more screwed up in the head than charles manson, you don't hear a word from anybody.  go figure.   

[240 is Back]

I don't wan tto hijack the thread or anything, but I see some big similarities to the way we were attacked on 9/11.

Because of fear and what some would characterize as our national hatred of Muslims, we have all believed the 'alibi' of the Bush Administration that there was no foreknowledge, no cover-up, and no involvement.  The actual evidence - well, most people get so mad at the suggestion that they would rather start a fistfight than watch a documentary showing how the buildings collapsed.

i think in 5 years, when people don't feel the sting of the attacks, and when the wars in iraq and afghanistand are (hopefully) over, people will step back and look at the evidence surrounding 9/11.  They certainly will never admit it out loud.  But like OJ, they'll quietly realize, feel stupid for a moment, and move on.

[yellowdog]

We are at work watching the trial and  the whites are gathered around one TV while all the blacks are gathered around another seperate TV.  OJ is aquited while cheers and clapping erupt from the black workers.  I go to the office of one of the black workers and ask what his true beliefs are concerning OJ.  He smiled and said, "Of course OJ did it but the justice system finally worked for us.  Whites have been getting away with murder for years." Not those exact words but I think you get the picture. 


They know he did it.

[mightymouse72]

I don't wan tto hijack the thread or anything, but I see some big similarities to the way we were attacked on 9/11.

Because of fear and what some would characterize as our national hatred of Muslims, we have all believed the 'alibi' of the Bush Administration that there was no foreknowledge, no cover-up, and no involvement.  The actual evidence - well, most people get so mad at the suggestion that they would rather start a fistfight than watch a documentary showing how the buildings collapsed.

i think in 5 years, when people don't feel the sting of the attacks, and when the wars in iraq and afghanistand are (hopefully) over, people will step back and look at the evidence surrounding 9/11.  They certainly will never admit it out loud.  But like OJ, they'll quietly realize, feel stupid for a moment, and move on.

did i read you correctly??
you think the government knew about 9/11?? covered it up?? 

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did i read you correctly??
you think the government knew about 9/11?? covered it up?? 

I think we need a second 911 investigation.

[mightymouse72]

I think we need a second 911 investigation.

with the demorats in charge now i think you'll get your wish.  they're going to waste more of our money investigating everything bush has done from 9/11 to what toothpaste he uses.

i don't take your comment seriously though. 
no straight thinking human can honestly believe we knew of the attacks.

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i don't take your comment seriously though. 
no straight thinking human can honestly believe we knew of the attacks.

I used to feel the same way, man.  I'm a lifelong republican.  I nearly fought a guy with the audacity to even suggest such a thing LOL.  But after all the study I've done of the political and economic conditions, the events of the day, the science behind the collapses...

We need a second investigation.  No person can watch two 911 documentaries and still believe what they've been told.  We need a second investigation.

[Bigger Business]

Johnny Cochran's dead?

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Johnny Cochran's dead?

yeah. some kinda inoperable brain tumor i think. few years back. RIP johnny.

[mightymouse72]

yeah. some kinda inoperable brain tumor i think. few years back. RIP johnny.

BIH jonnie!!

[Bigger Business]

yeah. some kinda inoperable brain tumor i think. few years back. RIP johnny.

Oh man...he was a genuis of his craft. RIP

"If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit." 

[pumpster]

So why did the two whites and one Hispanic on the jury vote to acquit? 

It was pressure, they admitted later. At least one said she'd realized later that she'd made a mistake caving. One of the black jury members was seen giving OJ the black power sign before leaving the courtroom.

[pumpster]

Johnny Cochran's dead?

Bizarre that two central characters around him are already dead, Johhny Cock Ring and Kardashian, who was a strange, key player. Apparently it was he who disposed of the knife, knew he was guilty, kept quiet and then later regreted it during the trial, saying that he expected a guilty verdict and was appalled by the outcome.

[pumpster]

The reaction selectively showed by the media was blacks cheering and whites jeering (and crying).  The trial and verdict really exposed the race problems that still exist in this country.   

Blacks seen cheering was the worst part, but at least now it makes some sense in that it wasn't about OJ but about 2 centuries of perceived injustice that caused that innappropriate behavior.

[pumpster]

Goldmans were on CNN last night. Such a decent family!

Fox is disgusting-not only were they the only ones to allow this book via their publishing arm and then to arrange the interview to air on TV late November, they also arranged to have OJ paid through an offshore account so that the monies (3.5 mm) will not be retrievable to satisfy the civil suit repayment obligations. Hideous that they would allow this, and a reminder of Murdoch's past in tacky bad taste newspapers. Hopefully something can be done about this but i don't understand Fox allowing it.

[Parker]

At, first, I will admit that I thought he was innocent, I thought his son did it, because his son didn't like Nicole Brown. But then when the 911 tapes came out, I was like, "OJ did it."

But I think the Borwn family is partly responsible for their daughter's death. I remember seeing an interview with the sister and she was crying saying, "OJ had pushed Nicole out of a moving car", and other abuses. If the family all this as going on, why didn't they try to stop it, while she was alive. Well the reason is , they were making mone off of OJ (they owned the Herz rental car biz, I believe), So as long as he was running thur the airport in commercials it was fine, Nicole was the "sacrificial lamb"

Basically they framed a guilty man, botched up evidence, and had a racist cop trying to hit on the black  lead singer of Vanity 6 (Vanity). Johnnie Cochran had this case given to him. It all had the makings of a very bad movie.