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It was tempting to blog something about Boy George. He got some jail time for chaining up a male escort. And how could I not try to cleverly put in his song lyrics to "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"
But, I was never a fan of his music. And he's always getting into trouble. I'd much rather talk about the other famous person always getting into trouble -- Orenthal J. Simpsons.
I loved when OJ was sentenced, and he got to speak. I loved to see that murdering, crime spree filled ex-running back cry and shake. I loved knowing that he was pleading his case, knowing in the back of his mind, it probably wouldn't do much good, since the verdict was already in and he would do a certain amount of jail time.
I loved hearing the judge give him crap after he spoke. And he just sat there listening to it.
I would've loved for Judge Ito to have done that. Instead, he was blindsided by the celebrity of it all, and didn't know how to handle himself, or the case. And OJ walked.
Had Ito done everything right, and all the others involved...Marcia Clark, Fuhrman, Christopher Darden, Vanatter...OJ would've still walked. The African-Americans on the jury would've let that happen. They said as much in consequent interviews.
So when I hear now that OJ might appeal, and that people are upset that no African-Americans were on this jury, I just laugh. Nobody seemed to care that the first jury was having whites dismissed during jury selection by Johnnie Cochran.
And, apparently, there were a few African-Americans that could've been on this jury. One of them had a doctors note that she couldn't be on it. Another kept going back and forth as to whether she could honestly not try him for his previous crime (or something like that).
A bunch of my liberal friends argued with me that I can't be mad at African-Americans that were happy about the first OJ verdict. They said, "Think of all the times cops have harassed black people, or arrested them unfairly. They were happy that finally an African-American got one over on the cops, and the systems."
But ya know what? I don't buy that logic.
Sure, they might hold a grudge against police (although, probably unfairly). But does that REALLY make your decision jump to wanting a person accused of double-murder to walk free?
The few black folks I talked to about this recent OJ case, seemed happy that he was finally going to do jail time. So I figured this wouldn't be something split along racial lines.
But then the verdict came down. The sentencing happened yesterday. And, OJ is going to be doing about 9 years in the slammer.
And, I hear the first African-American talk on a show on TV, and he's furious about the verdict. He thinks OJ got a raw deal.
On another channel, I see Fred Goldman, the father of OJs first victim. As he's speaking, a crowd of angry African-Americans is shouting stuff. I can hear "gold digger" and "you're gonna get a bullet for this." It's insane. Why would they be mad at a guy whose son was murdered? When all the evidence points towards OJ committing that murder. And you're going to yell at a victim?!
I get in my car, and on an AM sports station, an African-American caller is saying he thinks OJ is guilty, but he's mad that the judge and the jury "lied" and took the first case into consideration. And he thinks OJ shouldn't be doing jail time for this.
Why would anyone think that?
The guy went into a room with guns, to "get his stuff back." That's called armed robbery people. Do African-Americans that complain about this verdict not realize that? What am I missing here?
I understand it can get confusing. I mean, that player on the San Diego State Aztecs, recently went into a womans apartment, unplugged her big screen TV and carried it outside at 3:00 a.m. His fingerprints were on the wall, even though he said he was just "joking around." And the police aren't charging him with robbery because they "can't prove that was his intent."
And now SDSU says he'll be back on the team.
So please, let's stop with all the talk about African-Americans getting framed by the police.
Whether OJ was tried for his previous murders he got away with, or his recent "kidnapping, armed robbery," do we really care? Justice was finally served.
It was tempting to blog something about Boy George. He got some jail time for chaining up a male escort. And how could I not try to cleverly put in his song lyrics to "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"
But, I was never a fan of his music. And he's always getting into trouble. I'd much rather talk about the other famous person always getting into trouble -- Orenthal J. Simpsons.
I loved when OJ was sentenced, and he got to speak. I loved to see that murdering, crime spree filled ex-running back cry and shake. I loved knowing that he was pleading his case, knowing in the back of his mind, it probably wouldn't do much good, since the verdict was already in and he would do a certain amount of jail time.
I loved hearing the judge give him crap after he spoke. And he just sat there listening to it.
I would've loved for Judge Ito to have done that. Instead, he was blindsided by the celebrity of it all, and didn't know how to handle himself, or the case. And OJ walked.
Had Ito done everything right, and all the others involved...Marcia Clark, Fuhrman, Christopher Darden, Vanatter...OJ would've still walked. The African-Americans on the jury would've let that happen. They said as much in consequent interviews.
So when I hear now that OJ might appeal, and that people are upset that no African-Americans were on this jury, I just laugh. Nobody seemed to care that the first jury was having whites dismissed during jury selection by Johnnie Cochran.
And, apparently, there were a few African-Americans that could've been on this jury. One of them had a doctors note that she couldn't be on it. Another kept going back and forth as to whether she could honestly not try him for his previous crime (or something like that).
A bunch of my liberal friends argued with me that I can't be mad at African-Americans that were happy about the first OJ verdict. They said, "Think of all the times cops have harassed black people, or arrested them unfairly. They were happy that finally an African-American got one over on the cops, and the systems."
But ya know what? I don't buy that logic.
Sure, they might hold a grudge against police (although, probably unfairly). But does that REALLY make your decision jump to wanting a person accused of double-murder to walk free?
The few black folks I talked to about this recent OJ case, seemed happy that he was finally going to do jail time. So I figured this wouldn't be something split along racial lines.
But then the verdict came down. The sentencing happened yesterday. And, OJ is going to be doing about 9 years in the slammer.
And, I hear the first African-American talk on a show on TV, and he's furious about the verdict. He thinks OJ got a raw deal.
On another channel, I see Fred Goldman, the father of OJs first victim. As he's speaking, a crowd of angry African-Americans is shouting stuff. I can hear "gold digger" and "you're gonna get a bullet for this." It's insane. Why would they be mad at a guy whose son was murdered? When all the evidence points towards OJ committing that murder. And you're going to yell at a victim?!
I get in my car, and on an AM sports station, an African-American caller is saying he thinks OJ is guilty, but he's mad that the judge and the jury "lied" and took the first case into consideration. And he thinks OJ shouldn't be doing jail time for this.
Why would anyone think that?
The guy went into a room with guns, to "get his stuff back." That's called armed robbery people. Do African-Americans that complain about this verdict not realize that? What am I missing here?
I understand it can get confusing. I mean, that player on the San Diego State Aztecs, recently went into a womans apartment, unplugged her big screen TV and carried it outside at 3:00 a.m. His fingerprints were on the wall, even though he said he was just "joking around." And the police aren't charging him with robbery because they "can't prove that was his intent."
And now SDSU says he'll be back on the team.
So please, let's stop with all the talk about African-Americans getting framed by the police.
Whether OJ was tried for his previous murders he got away with, or his recent "kidnapping, armed robbery," do we really care? Justice was finally served.