I remember my parents glued to the TV at the time and I, at 16, said, “who gives a shit? It’s just a football player.” And then there was the trial and my parents watched it every day and laughed at the Dancing Judge Itos on Leno and I said, “who gives a shit? It’s just a football player.” I mean yes, it’s a miscarriage of justice that he got let off when he was so obviously guilty, but that’s what happens when you can afford really expensive lawyers.
I have never understood why people are so obsessed with it. The only time I ever even think of it is when someone claims that “X is innocent because the court found him innocent” and I ask the person if that means OJ is innocent.
The OJ Simpson murder case carried serious implications for a number of major issues: race relations, police treatment of African-Americans, domestic violence, and the effects of money on the justice system.
I’d like to read the whole thing, because I would say the first two were more brought into the American consciousness by the L.A. riots. The other two- I can see domestic violence and I already mentioned the effects of money on the justice system.
In fact, I would say the fact that he was able to buy his way out of it says very little about the plight of the average black person in the justice system.
I lived in a mostly black neighborhood during this time, this was being looked at as Rodney king 2.0 and if he was guilty there were going to be riots, kinda hard to conceptionilize what it was like during that time period.
I had just finished third grade when this happened. I was hit by a car the last week of school and was in a full body cast that went from my rib cage down my left leg to my foot. I watched the chase on tv and the subsequent trial while I healed. I had no frame of reference at the time but damned if the trial didn’t happen pretty quickly after the event. The chase itself was on just about every channel of network tv from what I remember. Formative memory.
They have admitted when they were wrong in the past.
All the previous presidents were characters in South Park. Clinton, Bush, Obama…all represented as themselves.
Trump is represented by the most racist character in South Park who is otherwise famous for being fucked up gay trans trans and lesbian transtrans and gay whatever the heck he is now.
It just sort of happened that way, but there hasn’t been a precedent for this.
I don’t know if they’re still doing the “both sides” thing, but they might’ve stopped at some point.
Not that they won’t make fun of people on the political left, but they might have gotten over the political fence sitting.
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