I myself, as are you, am too young to have been cognizant of OJ, when he was really "OJ"...
But the words straight from my mom's mouth, is when the murders happened, he leaned into his blackness in a way that he'd dissociated himself from, years prior. And it helped win his case and his image with black people because the opposition was the LAPD...
I never had reason to question my mom, but if I thought she was lying, the documentaries released about him, very much seem to assert the same things. OJ was in the same vein of self-hating black celebrity that some of these present guys are, and did everything he could to seperate himself from being attached to blackness in a social sense...
@NYC Rebel @Joe Sixpack to my knowledge are the two oldest brothers we have on here, though I'm not sure if they are old enough to remember OJ the football player, and 80s OJ immediately after his career, who was a major celebrity former athlete. My parents are all old enough to be cognizant of his full life in the public eye. So if you two brothers are, please add some input to what yall remember about OJ...
Because my mom was definitely like, oh he needs black people now, its okay for him to lean on his blackness again. She definitely said he distanced himself for years prior to that and that it wasn't some secret. Everybody knew it...
