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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. [b]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.[/b] 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]

I guarantee you that if this had been the case and if that affluent white jury had found him guilty, that would have done as much to agitate racial tensions as Rodney King.  There would have been mass riots from many who felt that this was once again a case of a racially biased situation of the white institutions convicting blacks whether they were guilty or not.

It is far easier for the white majority to want to just move forward with racial blindness and forget about the decades of racial imbalances.  [/quote]

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