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The Library => The SGA => Topic started by: Kaos on April 12, 2024, 10:31:37 AM
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Apologies to the communist-scripted behaviors of MLK and Rosa Parks, but I can argue that no one person had a more profound impact on race relations in this country than OJ Simpson.
When Simpson won the Heisman at USC in 1968, race relations in the US were at a tipping point. The Civil Rights movement dominated the news. Johnson (the most destructive president of all time - before Obama and the current babbling potato) was in charge. The "fair housing act" went into effect. King had been assassinated (don't get me started on that) that same year. The country was just five years removed from the stand in the schoolhouse door.
OJ was charismatic. Likeable. Affable. Good looking He didn't get involved in the issues. He was well spoken, friendly, and a singular talent, perhaps the best college athlete ever to that point.
His non-confrontational personality and his tremendous talent on the field made him an instant star, even though he was drafted and played for a bad Bills team. He went out, did his job - as well as anyone had before him.
Because he stayed out of the whole controversy that was going on, because he was always charming, he started to get endorsement deals that were previously unavailable to black players or celebrities.
Simply put? His good looks and charismatic personality transcended all the negativity. He made it okay for white folks to like black guys - particularly white women. His popularity was a healing force at a time when the two sides were very far apart.
He was never much loved by blacks, who saw him as "too white" but his appeal among the whites really helped close the gap. The world was open to him. Acting, announcing, endorsements. He could have been or done anything.
Fast forward to the day he murdered his ex-wife and a waiter who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Over time race relations had degraded. You can't force something that isn't natural. Watts Riots, Rodney King, Gangsta Rap, etc. spawned out of the growing divide. Distrust had swelled, particularly between police and the black community.
When he murdered those people and then the jury acquitted him simply because he was black? It was a betrayal. All the people who'd supported him, backed him, saw him as a bridge between the races? His callous murderous rage and the jury's disregard of the evidence (and also his later confessions) drove the wedge between the races even deeper. It has not recovered, honestly. In the words of an older man I know "well, he proved that no matter how they act, there's always that part that's gonna come out."
OJ moved us forward and then set us right back.
We're at another tipping point now, thanks to one of the biggest racists in history, BH Obama. There's no OJ in sight.
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https://x.com/mouvement33/status/1778566905881829792 (https://x.com/mouvement33/status/1778566905881829792)
Nicole Minet
@mouvement33
I've been waiting 29 years to tell this story about OJ and his days at USC. Now that he's dead (may he burn in hell) I have a story that I signed an NDA for that is no longer valid. I was a junior at USC working in Topping Student Center on campus in 1995. I was an administrative assistant to the President of Student Affairs that semester in the work/study program.
In early 1995, Robert Shapiro and Robert Kardashian (USC Alumni) walked up to my desk and said they had an appt with my boss. I was studying to be a criminal defense lawyer with a dual major in PoliSci and International Relations so I knew who they were. The meeting lasted about 30 mins.
After they left I looked at my boss like wtf was that all about!? He walked me outside and we sat by the old sprawling big tree outside Topping and my boss lit a cigarette for the first time in years and told me I had to sign an NDA because I could confirm OJ's lawyers were there for a meeting. Then he told me what the meeting was about.
Before OJ could graduate from USC, the university paid off two families of two blonde white girls that he had dated and battered. They had both gone to the LAPD to report it. One claimed he also sexually assaulted her in their relationship. The school had a vested interest in OJ going far in football and protected him at all costs. OJ had been in custody for 6 months and lawyers were in the discovery process for the trial and OJ's friend Robert Kardashian, who knew OJ from also being a student at USC, thought it would be best if those stories never saw the light of day. So a large check was written, given to my boss, and they left. I'll never forget holding that check.
Now, did you hear about this before now? Nope. That's how much power money enables.
After he was acquitted I changed my major to Philosophy/Psychology double major. I understood that I could harm society more than not if I pursued law. This is also why I abhor the Kardashians. They're rich thugs. Nothing more. #OJISDEAD
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I wonder how many more of these stories will come out in the next few years.
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Im curious to see if he had CTE or similar, or if they'll even look at his brain for it. Like you said, charming, nice guy that everyone liked, on commercials, etc. Then suddenly 1993 rolls around and he snaps?? Ive always thought he could possibly have had some damage from football. Just made no sense he went from likable guy to crazy murderer in a span of a few years.
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Im curious to see if he had CTE or similar, or if they'll even look at his brain for it. Like you said, charming, nice guy that everyone liked, on commercials, etc. Then suddenly 1993 rolls around and he snaps?? Ive always thought he could possibly have had some damage from football. Just made no sense he went from likable guy to crazy murderer in a span of a few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfM-7TERCMw
It's over an hour long. There are parts of this that are absolutely chilling.
Maybe he was always violent. Figured his celebrity and fame would get him out of it like it always did. He was right.
There is no question in my mind he slaughtered those two people. The only question I have is who was with him? He wasn't alone. Somebody is still out there.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfM-7TERCMw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfM-7TERCMw)
It's over an hour long. There are parts of this that are absolutely chilling.
Maybe he was always violent. Figured his celebrity and fame would get him out of it like it always did. He was right.
There is no question in my mind he slaughtered those two people. The only question I have is who was with him? He wasn't alone. Somebody is still out there.
I still think it was Al Cowlings who never gave testimony by pleading the 5th.
They were friends from high school and he was a first round draft pick from USC to the Bills in consecutive seasons (1968 '69) , Cowlings being one year behind OJ.
That's weird in itself.
AC even ended his playing career at Frisco just like Simpson. They both got into acting, Cowlings eventually becoming godfather to the Simpson children.
Its as if they were pre-packaged together as lifelong bosom buddies or stepbrothers.
Too convenient? Probably, but there were no other witnesses or accomplices to the murders.
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The prosecution drilled into Nicole's safe and found photos proving that she had been beaten by OJ and that was ruled inadmissible.
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The prosecution drilled into Nicole's safe and found photos proving that she had been beaten by OJ and that was ruled inadmissible.
The “prosecution” was abysmal. I could have done a better job. It was like a DEI version of a prosecutorial team. Zero talent.
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The “prosecution” was abysmal. I could have done a better job. It was like a DEI version of a prosecutorial team. Zero talent.
So true. I worked nights then and was mesmerized by this first huge tv trial that had the attention of the whole country.
Unfortunately it turned into a longterm modern day Super Bowl-like farce.
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The prosecution drilled into Nicole's safe and found photos proving that she had been beaten by OJ and that was ruled inadmissible.
The prosecution isn’t the only ones who drilled into her safe. Believe me.
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The prosecution isn’t the only ones who drilled into her safe. Believe me.
Wasn’t it speculated that her promiscuity was potential motive for her being “unalived”?
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Wasn’t it speculated that her promiscuity was potential motive for her being “unalived”?
I don't think so. Much of the public probably thought as much fwiw.
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The Simpson's had separate residences. There was blood on a sock and on a glove found at her home (murder scene) and the same found at his home. There was a also a bloodstain on the back of Nicole's top which was somehow lost and bloody footprints found inside the Bronco.
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The Simpson's had separate residences. There was blood on a sock and on a glove found at her home (murder scene) and the same found at his home. There was a also a bloodstain on the back of Nicole's top which was somehow lost and bloody footprints found inside the Bronco.
I rewatched most of the ESPN 30/30 about the trial and aftermath.
It does a much better and deeper dive into the racial undercurrent, OJ's whitewashing (to the point he didn't even consider himself black), Juice's return to blackness after that community abandoned him.
If you watch that and come away with the idea he was innocent? Can't help you.
There are interviews with jurors, one of which admits he was guilty but black folks needed a win.
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Now if we assume OJ found the bodies and tracked blood everywhere that could explain the bloodstains in the Bronco.
The socks and gloves at separate locations could possibly point to OJ being framed if you want to get conspiratorial.
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I rewatched most of the ESPN 30/30 about the trial and aftermath.
It does a much better and deeper dive into the racial undercurrent, OJ's whitewashing (to the point he didn't even consider himself black), Juice's return to blackness after that community abandoned him.
If you watch that and come away with the idea he was innocent? Can't help you.
There are interviews with jurors, one of which admits he was guilty but black folks needed a win.
Absolutely.
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Went to a homicide class taught by a guy heavily involved in aftermath of the case. He was able to show stuff that was deemed inadmissible in court.
100000% percent, OJ did it. The lead detective was hot garbage as well as prosecutors.
Dude did it.
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Went to a homicide class taught by a guy heavily involved in aftermath of the case. He was able to show stuff that was deemed inadmissible in court.
100000% percent, OJ did it. The lead detective was hot garbage as well as prosecutors.
Dude did it.
Agree....they go through a ton of that on the 30 for 30 K mentioned. I watched the whole thing and felt like I had exercised all day. It was exhausting to watch and relive it. Marcia Clark wasn't particularly bad, but Darden was. Clark had an uphill battle the whole way.....no way she was ever winning that case with the way everything was stacked and the ineptness of the detectives/LAPD. But Darden absolutely sunk any slim chance they had. His blunders were inexplicable, most notably the "glove" experiment which backfired on him.
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But Darden absolutely sunk any slim chance they had. His blunders were inexplicable, most notably the "glove" experiment which backfired on him.
Clark and Darden had agreed to not have OJ put the glove on. Then Cochrane told Darden that he didn't have a mouse's balls if he didn't have OJ try on the glove. When Darden stands to tell Ito that they're going to try the glove, you can see Clark look up at him in shock.
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Clark and Darden had agreed to not have OJ put the glove on. Then Cochrane told Darden that he didn't have a mouse's balls if he didn't have OJ try on the glove. When Darden stands to tell Ito that they're going to try the glove, you can see Clark look up at him in shock.
Good eye.... I saw that too.
I loathed Cochran but that wasn't even a fair fight. Even down to having OJ NOT take his Rheumatoid Arthritis Anti-Inflammatory meds to make his hands swell a little more.
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Good eye.... I saw that too.
I loathed Cochran but that wasn't even a fair fight. Even down to having OJ NOT take his Rheumatoid Arthritis Anti-Inflammatory meds to make his hands swell a little more.
Ever tried putting on anything with neoprene gloves on? They were never going to fit.
Wouldn’t have mattered though. Rodney King got whooped on and Furhman was on tape saying a word virtually every white person over the age of 30 (at that time) had said — a word that was used regularly on tv by blacks and whites alike.
They were not going to give the white cops that win. Even if he’d been on camera stabbing her and then posed with the knife and dead body
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Ever tried putting on anything with neoprene gloves on? They were never going to fit.
Wouldn’t have mattered though. Rodney King got whooped
They were not going to give the white cops that win. Even if he’d been on camera stabbing her and then posed with the knife and dead body
Yeah, I forgot about the neoprene part since it was out in the courtroom. Im no court sleuth but it was said in the doc that could have been avoided behind closed doors. Dardens ego got the better of him there when Cochran drew a line in the sand.
To your other point - Thats pretty much what the juror interviewed in the 30 for 30 said....not quite verbatim but close.
Clark never had a chance. I don't think that means she was a bad prosecutor but Darden doing what Wes said above sunk any remote chance she had. BUT...she could have been a home run hitter and it wouldn't have won it.
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Good eye.... I saw that too.
I loathed Cochran but that wasn't even a fair fight. Even down to having OJ NOT take his Rheumatoid Arthritis Anti-Inflammatory meds to make his hands swell a little more.
I wish I could claim the keen eye. I was a "Trials of the Century" CLE years ago and they told the whole story about how Darden got punked.
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Dana Carvey did a stand up bit on all the OJ trial characters way back in 95'. On Johnny Cochran trying to manipulate Judge Ito:
Your Honor has made a wise decision. Your Honor is a wise man. Your Honor is a handsome man. In fact, Your Honor is a gorgeous man, a very sexy man. If I was a gay man, I would have sex with Your Honor. We'd have a little naked time.
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Dana Carvey did a stand up bit on all the OJ trial characters way back in 95'. On Johnny Cochran trying to manipulate Judge Ito:
Your Honor has made a wise decision. Your Honor is a wise man. Your Honor is a handsome man. In fact, Your Honor is a gorgeous man, a very sexy man. If I was a gay man, I would have sex with Your Honor. We'd have a little naked time.
You sure that was Dana Carvey and not a lawyer in Dothan? Sounds like something he would say.