Remarks from the Fray:
Please people, enough.
If all of the media coverage and emotional energy that has been focused on this crime was devoted to improving and expanding the options for women who are victims of domestic abuse we could have made a far greater impact than appeasing a useless and lazy tabloid appetite.
Here's a brain exercise for you. If OJ wasn't a celebrity would anyone outside of their families and friends have given a crap about the victims or the crime? Since there was and is such racial aspect to the whole thing, imagine that Nicole Simpson was black and Ron Goldman was Asian or Mexican, would it have been so loud and pervasive a spectacle? Would it have been such a seminal moment in US history? Would white people have been so outraged by OJ's acquittal? Would black people have felt so vindicated by OJ's acquittal? Crying outside of the courtroom? Please. Cheering in church? Please.
I know some other things he "Did". He showed us the disheartening grip celebrity has on the American mind and that the violent actions of a pathetic, psychotic moron can expose a nation's myopic and simplistic racial perspective.
--FOJ
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I have a lot of feelings about society's reaction to this case. I am angered, ashamed, confused, and most of all disappointed.
This stupid case should have been news for a week and then we should have moved on. But it follows the truth that any crime committed black males are in the news twice a long as crime by white men.
A prime example was the Robert Blake case. Both hr and OJ are has-been celebrities who were both found guilty by public opinion. Where is Robert Blake now ... acquitted. Where is his article? Where is his outrage?
[This is] a society where Paris Hilton can spend 23 DAYS in jail and Nicole Ritchie a mere 82 MINUTES for repeat offenses and claim that justice was served. [This is] a society that can allow Jena 6 to occur in 2007. Look me in the face to say "Why are people so upset?" In days when white girls get less prison time than it takes for me to have a complete cycle for drunk driving and a young black high school student gets 22 years for fighting in a school yard something is tragically wrong
--jasknigt
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Speaking for divorced men. Why does every bleeding heart always lean toward women. Is OJ guilty? You bet!!! But is his wife this poor woman who was so mistreated? Maybe! Woman have a way to trip the trigger of men. Men are always the no good ***** hole. She knew what triggered OJ's ego. She knew what she was doing. Women know all they have to do is call the police and say they were grabbed or hit, and the man goes to jail. Period! No Questions asked. I 've seen this happen many times to many men. Then they are labeled a abuser. Women can cheat, lie, and still come out the innocent of any wrong doing. Then they use the children as a dagger to make him pay. Rules were implemented for women in any divorce. I don't condone what he did. He should be in prison. But she is not innocent in all this. Not one bit.
--bubbsdaddy
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It angers me the anger many of the men on this page carry toward women in terms of divorce laws. The law does not "pity" women. As you may know, up until LATE in the 20th century American women didn't even have a standing in court and didn't exist as separate beings. I am sorry to break it to you, but men are still very much in control and women who don't work but raise families are still very much undervalued when it comes to divorce. OJ is playing with these type of men, trying to get your pity and you are playing right into his hands. Don't fall for his crap.
As I see it, OJ is sitting somewhere laughing at us all. We shouldn't care, we shouldn't buy this book, he is laughing at double jeopardy. He is showing us how much better he is than us and its sickening. He did it, He was rich enough to get away with it, it's as simple as that. And before you start calling the Goldman's gold diggers, think about how you would feel if someone killed your son, daughter or husband and got away with it. You would want someone to pay and you would feel that they shouldn't be out golfing everyday.
If OJ wasn't a football hero and if Nicole Simpson wasn't a beautiful blond, would we have more sympathy for her? It shouldn't matter how she acted or what she did....OJ is responsible for how he reacts to things....NOT NICOLE. No one deserves to have their head almost cut off completely with a knife by the person they had children with. She had no means of fighting someone his size, and we should all remember that.
--meggles
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Remarks from the Fray:
Please people, enough.
If all of the media coverage and emotional energy that has been focused on this crime was devoted to improving and expanding the options for women who are victims of domestic abuse we could have made a far greater impact than appeasing a useless and lazy tabloid appetite.
Here's a brain exercise for you. If OJ wasn't a celebrity would anyone outside of their families and friends have given a crap about the victims or the crime? Since there was and is such racial aspect to the whole thing, imagine that Nicole Simpson was black and Ron Goldman was Asian or Mexican, would it have been so loud and pervasive a spectacle? Would it have been such a seminal moment in US history? Would white people have been so outraged by OJ's acquittal? Would black people have felt so vindicated by OJ's acquittal? Crying outside of the courtroom? Please. Cheering in church? Please.
I know some other things he "Did". He showed us the disheartening grip celebrity has on the American mind and that the violent actions of a pathetic, psychotic moron can expose a nation's myopic and simplistic racial perspective.
--FOJ
(To reply, click here.)
I have a lot of feelings about society's reaction to this case. I am angered, ashamed, confused, and most of all disappointed.
This stupid case should have been news for a week and then we should have moved on. But it follows the truth that any crime committed black males are in the news twice a long as crime by white men.
A prime example was the Robert Blake case. Both hr and OJ are has-been celebrities who were both found guilty by public opinion. Where is Robert Blake now ... acquitted. Where is his article? Where is his outrage?
[This is] a society where Paris Hilton can spend 23 DAYS in jail and Nicole Ritchie a mere 82 MINUTES for repeat offenses and claim that justice was served. [This is] a society that can allow Jena 6 to occur in 2007. Look me in the face to say "Why are people so upset?" In days when white girls get less prison time than it takes for me to have a complete cycle for drunk driving and a young black high school student gets 22 years for fighting in a school yard something is tragically wrong
--jasknigt
(To reply, click here.)
Speaking for divorced men. Why does every bleeding heart always lean toward women. Is OJ guilty? You bet!!! But is his wife this poor woman who was so mistreated? Maybe! Woman have a way to trip the trigger of men. Men are always the no good ***** hole. She knew what triggered OJ's ego. She knew what she was doing. Women know all they have to do is call the police and say they were grabbed or hit, and the man goes to jail. Period! No Questions asked. I 've seen this happen many times to many men. Then they are labeled a abuser. Women can cheat, lie, and still come out the innocent of any wrong doing. Then they use the children as a dagger to make him pay. Rules were implemented for women in any divorce. I don't condone what he did. He should be in prison. But she is not innocent in all this. Not one bit.
--bubbsdaddy
(To reply, click here.)
It angers me the anger many of the men on this page carry toward women in terms of divorce laws. The law does not "pity" women. As you may know, up until LATE in the 20th century American women didn't even have a standing in court and didn't exist as separate beings. I am sorry to break it to you, but men are still very much in control and women who don't work but raise families are still very much undervalued when it comes to divorce. OJ is playing with these type of men, trying to get your pity and you are playing right into his hands. Don't fall for his crap.
As I see it, OJ is sitting somewhere laughing at us all. We shouldn't care, we shouldn't buy this book, he is laughing at double jeopardy. He is showing us how much better he is than us and its sickening. He did it, He was rich enough to get away with it, it's as simple as that. And before you start calling the Goldman's gold diggers, think about how you would feel if someone killed your son, daughter or husband and got away with it. You would want someone to pay and you would feel that they shouldn't be out golfing everyday.
If OJ wasn't a football hero and if Nicole Simpson wasn't a beautiful blond, would we have more sympathy for her? It shouldn't matter how she acted or what she did....OJ is responsible for how he reacts to things....NOT NICOLE. No one deserves to have their head almost cut off completely with a knife by the person they had children with. She had no means of fighting someone his size, and we should all remember that.
--meggles
(To reply, click here.)
(9/2)