Uh, because there was over a decade’s time in between the verdict of the case and the announcement of the book.
And if Saddam had been tried by the American legal system - you might have a point.
10 years, 20 years, 100 years. 3 months. Doesn’t matter. Murderers should never get away with it, and it’s an absolute outrage that he’s thumbing his nose at the entire country.
Maybe for some. But celebrity has plenty of momentum on its own, especially in a murder case.
Not everyone will cower at the thought that they might be assumed racist for taking a certain view, but enough will that it limits a lot of honest responses.
Then let’s try it again: People reacted more violently to the O.J. trial than the Blake trial because their feelings were stronger O.J. than for Blake. I don’t think that’s so hard to understand. If you substitued Joe DiMaggio and the guy who played Huggy Bear in the 70s for these two, I have no doubt people’s reactions would have been just as strong, despite the reversed races from the Simpson/Blake case. If you’re confused by my parenthetical sentence, I meant that it was pretty obvious to most people - even those who only saw bits of the trial on the evening news segments - that O.J. was guilty, and that obviousness had nothing to do with the fact that O.J. was black.
And even fewer will cower at the thought of being painted as a race-baiting bully for taking a certain view, so how about you give up that tactic and try attacking arguments, even the ones about racism, on their own merits, instead of embarrassing yourself with bald hypocrisy. If you don’t think that OJ’s miscegenation and the fact that his alleged victims were white had anything to do with the public outrage surrounding his acquittal, fine. But don’t try to silence me by claiming I’ve silenced anyone else, when I haven’t.
That’s not how emotions work. Popularity doesn’t perfectly inverse when the subject does something reprehensible. You completely made up that concept. That is, unless you’re talking about betrayal. But why would anyone feel betrayed by OJ, unless it was in the sense that he was a perfectly white-assimilated black man who turned around and killed his white wife, and then seemingly tried to court the black community for moral support during his defense?
First of all, I’m not saying your aim was to silence anyone. I’m saying that when you claim race is the main factor in this - which is your opinion, since I doubt there were any polls to provide such evidence - it puts a lot of people off talking about it whether that was your intent or not. And no, I don’t think his miscegenation and the fact that his alleged victims were white had anything to do with the public outrage surrounding his acquittal, as I’ve stated. I think people got worked up over it because the trial was ubiquitous in our culture at the time, and people are fucking drama queens. I hear people at work going mental over America’s next Top Model every day after it airs, but I doubt it’s because a black woman is in a position of power over some white women.
Really? So I guess that’s why people like Giovanni Ribisi and Anne Archer and Patrick Swayze got so much shit talked about them for their belief in Scientology rather than Tom Cruise or John Travolta. Or why people got so swept up in Tori Spelling’s and Christina Applegate’s divorces rather than Britney’s or Brad Pitt’s. Or why Busta Rhymes’s assault case has gotten so much more ink than Russell Crowe’s. Are you fucking serious? The more passionate people are about a celebrity, the more passionate they’re going to be about whatever troubles those celebrities get into. If there’s one thing the celeb-obsessed enjoy more than sucking up the minute details of stars’ mundane day-to-day activities, it’s the schaudenfreude they experience when the stars fuck up.
Right. Or maybe because they looked up to him as an all-American sports hero and he turned out to be a vicious killer. But, of course, most people are such hateful fucks that the fact that he was “white-assimilated” and tried to “court the black community for moral support” is a far more heinous crime than murder in their minds.
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O.J. Simpson case was news because the accused was a black celebrity in a double murder of two white lovers, one his ex-wife.
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O.J. Simpson case generated further interest when O.J. tried to run, and threatened suicide, with news cameras dicumenting everything. These actions were widely interpreted by many as the act of a guilty, guilty, guilty man.
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O.J. Simpson case polarized the country racially because the accused was a successfully assimulated wealthy black man and his victims were relatively poorer nonfamous whites, and for the first time the black man because of his wealth and fame, was able to assemble a top-notch legal team.
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For some, O.J’s guilt or innocence was presumed without any of the later facts we later learned, and that presumption of guilt or innocence was made soley on the basis of race. For some. Maybe not anyone here, but some.
It’s a mistake to view the OJ case soley in terms of race or fame or wealth and salacious accusation. The fairly unique combination (at that time, and even since) of race AND fame AND wealth AND salacious accusation made for a unique amalgamation that considered together generated all that international interest in the trial, the composition of the defense and prosecution teams (and the Asian judge, whi being neither white nor black was considered racially nuetral) and it likely predicted the eventual outcome of acquittal. Just like the Blake trial did in a lesser degree; just as Michael Jackson’s trial did in a similar degree.
Lovers, really? I thought that was faintly rumoured but not established, with the consensus being that Goldman was just a friend of hers who was unlucky enough to be at her house at the time.
That’s right. The idea that OJ was such a jealous, controlling SOB that he would murder his wife and another guy on the mere suspicion that they were involved was more fuel for outrage.
And even if Goldman had been a “lover”, which of course he wasn’t, OJ and Nicole were legally divorced when this happened, not just separated. So it was not even a matter of her cheating on OJ; she was free to date whomever she wanted.
Apparently, not all copies were destroyed, Folks were selling them on eBay until the auctions got shut down, then they started “selling” (i.e. you bid a penny or so) and they sent you the URL of a site where you could get the book from.
No, just less competent than the defense team.
I’m sure that’s a real consolation to the Brown & Goldman families :rolleyes:
As George Carlin put it “Timothy McVeigh had never been in any legal trouble so why not let him go free if he promised to never do it again.”
Tell me Truck–How many people can someone kill and get away with it if they promise not to kill again?
Must read article in Slate by Timothy Noah about O.J.'s ghostwriter for the book.
If she was really bitching at him, then it was kind of self defense. He should go free and get lots of money.