LionofJudah
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For the 90's babies...
Flashback: OJ Simpson murder trial verdict reactions
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Crazy time right there...I was 11 but my parents were very vocal about it...
LionofJudah
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Yeah, I was 13 at the time, but I remember Blacks being happy and whites being pissed. Trial was long as hell...and this was around the time of the Million Man March also. Blacks were starting to get woke up around this time to this country's racism, but we fell back asleep.
LA Fisher
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inb4georgezimmerman
Second video @2:00
"OJ was not on trial. All of the Mark Furman's were on trial. LAPD and their racist mentality was on trial. Everything that Darryl Gates gave birth to was on trial."
#tabernacle
"OJ was not on trial. All of the Mark Furman's were on trial. LAPD and their racist mentality was on trial. Everything that Darryl Gates gave birth to was on trial."
#tabernacle
nah its because the Million man March was a middle class smokescreen to fund capitalism into the NOI...the New Nadir was in full effect at that time and the OJ verdict was an isolated case where he got off because of his upper class status...that's it; the mid 1990s were great for the small black middle and upper class, but the retreat of working class jobs and drug abuse was devastating to the majority black population...
the artist known az
Hail the victors
I was around 10 or 11, I remember being in 6th grade and the cac kids were mad and we were jumping around talking about "we won" 
LionofJudah
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For the most part I agree, but O.J. didn't get off due to his status. America doesn't give a damn who you are, we are still ******s to them and nothing is going to change that. Especially true when two well to do white people have been murdered. OJ got off in part due to a majority Black jury and the 1992 riots were still fresh in everyone's mind. L.A. didn't want those problems again. He got threw a bone IMO.
I see your point; I think it was a mixture of both; OJ's lifestyle and money were apart of it as well
johntheblackjew
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its amazing how easily and quickly color lines are drawn in the sand
its the idea that we dont even really know these people without any doubt that they are innocent but the mere fact that they share our skin tone, we automatically turn on a switch that says we're on their side..
its the idea that we dont even really know these people without any doubt that they are innocent but the mere fact that they share our skin tone, we automatically turn on a switch that says we're on their side..
LionofJudah
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There's a big difference with Blacks siding with Blacks regarding the Justice system and whites thinking this nikka is guilty just because. It's a fact the cops were planting evidence. That alone is enough for reasonable doubt.
Black folks had plenty of reason to distrust the L.A.P.D, which was unapologetically racist during the 90s (still is). The real story is that the Dream team kicked the shyt out of the prosecution. Literally it was like the Miami heat playing against 8th graders.
I was in the 7th grade. We went to a nearby elementary school one day a week to tutor 1st graders. We were at the steps of the school when my own mom came out and told us the news (it was the early afternoon if I recall correctly).
Me: Hey mom, what you doin' here?
(she was there for my little sister)
Mom: Guess what guys...OJ was found not guilty, he isn't going to jail
My classmates:
My teacher (who was white):
Me: Hey mom, what you doin' here?
(she was there for my little sister)Mom: Guess what guys...OJ was found not guilty, he isn't going to jail
My classmates:
My teacher (who was white):
I remember that black lawyer crying 
THE MACHINE
night owl
I was in 7th grade english when the verdict came in. I had a white teacher and another teacher came in and interrupted and said " not guilty" to my teacher. Both faces were red and my teacher sat down for the rest of the class at his desk with his head down . Most of the kids had no reaction but some celebrated. I really wasnt even up on the case so I was 
not guilty" to my teacher. Both faces were red and my teacher sat down for the rest of the class at his desk with his head down . Most of the kids had no reaction but some celebrated. I really wasnt even up on the case so I was