Did your parents, grandparents, older relatives think OJ was guilty or innocent?

[Anonymous]

Kinda off topic - I mean yes, of course he killed them, but I think he did it because of all the hits he took to his head. Look at these football players - irrational violence, suicidal. CTE is a real thing. So I think he did it but if he was tried today and asserted that defense, he would be found not guilty. I think it’s a valid defense.

[Anonymous]

The whole thing was Operation OJ. The real truth would rock everyone's world.

Did any of you know Nicole had an identical twin ? She's very well known.
Kloe Kardashian is OJ's daughter.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think I’ve ever met a white Boomer who wasn’t pissed off about the OJ verdict.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My whole family (white) thought he was guilty. I was working part time at an Association in DC while in grad school and they rolled a tv into the conference room for the whole staff to watch the verdict. It was fascinating! The white staff members gasped and the black staff members cheered. Given this country’s racist history I understand where many in the black community were coming from but to me the verdict was more of an example of how domestic violence is not taken seriously, even when a woman is killed. So depressing

Same experience here. Was working at a DC association with a lot of Black employees and we watched the verdict on a TV in our reception area. All the White staff gasped and some of the Black staff cheered. At the time, I noticed that the Black staff that cheered tended to be less educated than the ones that stayed silent, so there may be a class--not just a race--element to individual reactions. I remember feeling betrayed as a woman, not as a White, because of the disregard for the killing of a woman (and her friend) by a powerful, wealthy man. I remember thinking to myself: you can get away with anything if you're a man and have enough money, regardless of race. With the exception of the insanity and division of the Trump era (which we're still in), I had never before felt so alienated from such a large segment of our society.

I was in 7th grade in Los Angeles at a parochial school. We watched the OJ verdict together. When they announced “not guilty” my black classmates started cheering and dancing in aisle between the desks. I didn’t really care either way about the verdict, but the reaction of my black classmates was very surprising.

I don’t think African-Americans would have celebrated if OJ’s murdered wife was black. The point of celebration was that OJ murdered a white lady and got away with it. Contrast this with Emmet Till, who was lynched over a lie by a white lady. That was almost exactly 40 years earlier. The country had changed a lot in those four decades, but maybe not entirely for the better.

[Anonymous]

They did.
DNA evidence was pretty new at that time. My dad was a doctor and when he heard about the DNA evidence he was certain that he was guilty and lost interest in the case as that was irrefutable to him.

[Anonymous]

I don't know anywho who thinks he is innocent!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was enough reasonable doubt in the evidence to drive a truck through. Accordingly, he was found not guilty as he should have been.

That said, the case was about race more than it was about the murder. That’s just the reality of those times. It’s also obvious that most white people don’t understand this, which is why I try to not discuss this case with them.

My personal opinion is that I don’t know if OJ did it or not. I most definitely believe that he was an abusive, insensitive psycho (at best), but I also know that 1990’s LAPD cannot be trusted.

[Black woman who was in college during the murder and trial.]

That’s disappointing to hear that you still feel this way after all these years. What did you make of his book: If I did it: Confession of the killer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never met someone that thought OJ was innocent.

Same here. I was in college during the trial.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know anywho who thinks he is innocent!

Plenty of folks in the black community say something along the lines of “He was found innocent by a jury of his peers. That’s good enough and he should be able to live his life. We will never know what happened that day.”

Now, there are plenty of black people who think he was guilty. But the prevailing message is one of ambivalence and, essentially, a shoulder shrug.

Among white people older than 40? I don’t think I’ve ever met one who said anything less than “He’s a guilty murderer!” White people have much more intense feelings about OJ than black people, imho.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even black people knew he did it. They just cheered that he beat the system. Sorta twisted but that was the mentality.

It's very twisted and they wouldn't have cheered if he had murdered a black woman.