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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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