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

This, too.

Anonymous wrote:I thought everyone thought he was guilty but recently talked about it with my black neighbors (in their 50s) who said they thought he was innocent. There’s more at play here than logic, obviously because the evidence points clearly to his guilt. I made the comment that if I end up dead they better make sure the police look at my husband, and they laughed and agreed.

This. It was a scary, choose-your-own facts moment that I now understand foreshadowed our current post-truth world.

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

This. It was incredibly twisted.

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

I thought everyone thought he was guilty but recently talked about it with my black neighbors (in their 50s) who said they thought he was innocent. There’s more at play here than logic, obviously because the evidence points clearly to his guilt. I made the comment that if I end up dead they better make sure the police look at my husband, and they laughed and agreed.

When it came out that he was a chronic wife beater, my mom said he did it but he’ll get off. They always do. She was a DV victims’ advocate and had seen it all before. Strip away all the celebrity and the racial aspect and that’s all it was. So predictable and commonplace and so tragic.

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

This.

Connecting this to modern times, I believe many Trump supporters don’t care if he is a terrible person or ineffective president; they just don’t like “the system” as they currently perceive it and Trump appeals to them because he goes against that system.

We all thought he was 100% guilty irregardless of age and gender. It was blatantly obvious, which is why the trial and verdict was so controversial. Only black people thought he was innocent, or rather, it was more important that he be found innocent. The actual crime was less important.

Anonymous wrote:Cheering because a double murderer beat the system is ghoulish, but that's the world we live in, apparently.

The world we lived in at the time was one where you could beat a man almost to death on camera but because you and your friends were police, and white, you got off. This had been going on forever at that point (see the origin of the Black Panther Party) and when OJ “beat the system” it felt like a win for many black people who knew he was guilty. I watched the six-part documentary years ago and it addressed this and put it in context.

Cheering because a double murderer beat the system is ghoulish, but that's the world we live in, apparently.

^^ this. 50-something white woman who knows he was guilty

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

The evidence is overwhelming.

He dripped his blood from the crime scene to his home.

Everyone’s blood was in his car.

He kept changing the story he told his friends of how he cut his hand.

AND the police had been called repeatedly to their home for domestic violence. She told the police, “he is going to kill me.”

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Anonymous wrote:He saved the kitten in Towering Inferno.
Seriously I am in the age group you ask about. White.
I think his son did it and OJ figured he had a better chance of getting off.

How old was his child? Pretty sure there is no evidence that pointed to anyone but OJ.

No, man I thought the SAME thing. Jason was early 20's I think, but he was just despondent, almost inconsolable before the verdict was read. It was so outsized, even with the gravity of the situation.

And OP you're asking the wrong question as I think someone else pointed out - it's not age, it's race that generally associates with opinions.

Anonymous wrote:He saved the kitten in Towering Inferno.
Seriously I am in the age group you ask about. White.
I think his son did it and OJ figured he had a better chance of getting off.

Ridiculous. OJ had beaten Nicole repeatedly.