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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is an interesting discussion of racial dynamics that is still relevant today as inflammatory as it is. [b] It speaks to not only racial divides but socioeconomic divides.

My experience at the time of the verdict that many peoople were celebrating that he managed to stay out of jail using wealth and privilege as other entitled people have done for centuries.  I honestly don't think people actually believed he did it....it was a racial solidarity issue. 
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The second worst outcome from the trial is the enduring fame of the Kardashians.  I would probably watch at least one episode of a Kato Kaelin reality show.   I wonder if he wears Ed Hardy shirts. [/quote]

He is black but he was not of the same socioeconomic class as the jurors. Although he was brought up poor, he was treated well because of his football abilities and was very rich, powerful, well connected and lived a life of privilege since his younger days. His jurors should have been wealthy white people who lived in Brentwood, not poor AAs who lived in South Central LA who thought OJ was one of them. He certainly was not. I think they realized that after the trial though. At the time, racial tensions were high, after the Rodney King and Latasha Harlins incidents, and jurors were fed up with being victims without voices. He was lucky indeed.[/quote]

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