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ORIGINAL: kdsub

I wonder what the African American community thinks of OJ now. Do they think he is just being hounded because he is black and beat the "MAN" in the past... or are they relieved that he will no longer be a symbol of a black murder gone free?
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Butch

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

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ORIGINAL: Blaakmaan

I doubt that the African-American community, as a whole, thinks only one particular thing.

As a whole ...meaning the majority of thoughts and feelings…. the African American community WILL have one predominate opinion...I have no idea what that will be. We will soon find out.

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ORIGINAL: LDRandAstarte

Ya'll should have watched the first trial.

I was self employed, in my home at the time of the first trial and watched every minute of the televised trial and the evidence presented, like it or not, said OJ did not kill his ex wife or her boy friend. He probably knew, or even hired, who did kill them, but that was not the charge against him.

This time, he is found guilty, because the evidence confirms the charge.

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ORIGINAL: Xploremyworld

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

I wonder what the African American community thinks of OJ now. Do they think he is just being hounded because he is black and beat the "MAN" in the past... or are they relieved that he will no longer be a symbol of a black murder gone free?
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Butch

I WONDER what the (insert name of community here) thinks of  (insert name of criminal here) now... Curious how that works... For instance: 'I wonder what the anglo American community thinks of President George W Bush now.'

Fact is, O.J. 'belongs' no more to the black community than a white criminal 'belongs to the white community. That you assign this stigma says a lot about YOU, as an individual. OBTW: you can try the same 'exercise,' based on sex, religion, or any other attribute you WANT to give visibility to.

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ORIGINAL: Blaakmaan

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

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ORIGINAL: Blaakmaan

I doubt that the African-American community, as a whole, thinks only one particular thing.

As a whole ...meaning the majority of thoughts and feelings…. the African American community WILL have one predominate opinion...I have no idea what that will be. We will soon find out.

Well, pardon me, but I disagree.

And why will the African-American community "have one predominate opinion"?  Because you say so?

A majority of white America favors either Obama or McCain, but it would be incorrect to say that the predominant, majority opinion is white America's opinion.

The same is true of black America.

If 51% of black America thinks one thing, and 49% thinks another, how can you say that black America's opinion is what the 51% thinks, and totally negate the other 49%?

If the overwhelming majority of black America has a similar opinion on an issue (like its opposition to the war in Iraq), then that's black America's opinion.  If its opinion is split, you cannot speak of black America's opinion.

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Agree that the best guess is that OJ stood nearby and watched someone else do the killings, but no way in hell that arthritic middle aged ex-jock leaped out from the bushes and slaughtered 2 grown people without getting more on him than the miniscule traces that were found.

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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado

I didn't say get the drop on, I said slaughtered solo without more of a trace... the person who inflicted that much damage to 2 full sized people would have had blood in every pore and every hair on their body, clean up or no. 

Yeah, he could have worn a hazmat suit, and hotwired a nearby vehicle and taken it out to the desert where he had a complete decon set up waiting, and then buried everything except for a pair of socks that only had tiny drops on them and then run across country to his waiting vehicle in time to make the plane... but I'm skeptical.


Based on what was recovered, OJ was in contact at some point, no doubt, but either the prosecution threw away a couple of buckets of red stuff and forgot to mention it at trial, or someone else did all or most of the actual dirty weapons work...
just like OJ had them do in the current case, while he played mastermind.

And, as I said, it is only a best guess, I simply don't buy that he played Zorro all by himself.

1. The socks with the blood on them had the blood pressed into them so that it was pushed through the weave of the fibers and bubbled up on the inside of the sock where there should have been an ankle preventing that from happening.
2. The glove was found in a 3 foot wide side yard, between the side of the house and the fence by a cop looking into OJ's yard from a neighbors yard, and when they went to get the glove they had to knock down cobwebs to get to it. I guess OJ tossed it over the fence into his yard from the neighbors yard.
3. Blood samples found on the back gate at the crime scene, reported to be left there by OJ during his getaway had blood preservative in it when it was collected. 
4. Goldman's knuckles on both hands were split open from blunt force trauma (he hit some one hard, and more then once) and they photographed OJ's entire body (in underwear) when he was questioned and he did not have a bruise on him anywhere.