Black Opinion on Simpson Shifts
African Americans Now More Likely to Say He Murdered Ex-Wife, Her Friend
By Darryl Fears
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 27, 2007; A03
In a nation that largely despised him, O.J. Simpson always had strong support within the black community, where polls showed a majority of people believed he was innocent of charges that he murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her acquaintance Ronald Lyle Goldman outside her home in Los Angeles's Brentwood neighborhood in 1994.
But after a string of missteps by the former football star -- a heated 2003 argument with his teenage daughter in which she called police; a book, "If I Did It," that raised eyebrows last year; and a dispute over sports collectibles in Las Vegas this month that led to an armed-robbery arrest -- black opinion has shifted.
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See, they NEVER got it right in the first place
I know very very few Black folk that thought OJ was INNOCENT.
On, the other hand, I know PLENTY that thought he was NOT GUILTY.
And White folk never wanted to distinguish like that. They never thought we could ' split hairs' like this.
I never had any problem with the Jury's verdict.
But, I always believed he murdered those two. (Whether he did it himself or hired the folk, it's the same thing. Nobody lets the mob get away with ' I didn't do it myself, they only work for me).
I believe the LAPD tried to FRAME A GUILTY MAN.
And, because they did, there was no option - he had to go free.
Try telling that to White folk, and they just explode...LOL