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On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:04:19 -0500, "dbjones"
<dbjones@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:

>    Let me turn on my blackness for a minute...
>
>    I'm sick & tired of white people complaining about whether OJ did it or
>not. Now you plaster this gossip column CRAP like it's the gospel!! Get a
>life, he was found innocent, end of story. You got your consolation prize in
>the civil trial, now move on.
>
>    You want to talk about injustice? Talk about the 1999 shooting death of
>Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant killed (Shot over 40 times!!!)
>by four members of the Police Department's Street Crime Unit. Talk about
>police brutality after Abner Louima had a plunger shoved up his rectum!! The
>list is so long that I can't even begin to name them all, Blacks have
>endured more than our share of tragedies & travesties. You want me to get
>all upset about OJ...Get upset about a 5 year old black girl in Chicago who
>was raped & murdered during the same week that Jon-Benet was killed. There
>was NO Manhunt, No Headlines, No Call for vengeance for her. As soon as you
>White people start caring about what happens to me & mine, I'll give a
>F....K about what happens to you.

"You White People?"  The press fixates on the Ramseys because they are
affluent, and the little girl was pretty, and you conclude that all
White People (tm) only care about white murders (and not black)
because the *media* made those choices?  Please.  Let's be rational
here.  Airplane crashes are reported not because they are common, but
because they are rare.  Stories about upper class parents murdering
their kids are very rare, and therefore the collective media senses a
sellable story.  So what--how does this implicate all whites?
>
>    Blacks weren't cheering when OJ was found innocent because we thought he
>was innocent, we cheered because YOU people had to swallow the injustice for
>a change.

"You people?"  What are you, Ross Perot?  Cheering at that verdict was
shameful,and the people that did, of all colors, should be ashamed of
themselves.  A "Jury Nullification" outcome such as this may feel good
in the short term, but long term, people that support such injustice
lose credibility, respect and influence.


> And he had proved our point that justice in this country was about
>money & power!!! Because we all know that a poor defendant in his place
>might be heading for a needle.

Be he or she Black, or White.
>
>    If you still think a Black person can get a fair trial in this country,
>ask yourself why (I believe it was Newsweek) felt the need to darken the
>background of it's cover photo of OJ when he was being booked in, to "make
>him look more sinister.".

What does that have to do with the legal system?  News magazines also
rig vehicles with explosives to fake or exaggerate a safety problem to
sell more magazines or TV news stories.  Sometimes they will do
anything to sell product.  Not very noble, but why are whites, or our
legal system to blame for that?

Simma down na--we're really not out to get you. :)

Steven Cunningham

>
>Eric Gene Price <eprice@austin.ibm.com> wrote in message
>news:39DCDEED.4BDEB6C2@austin.ibm.com...
>> Mike wrote:
>> >
>> > OJ's son got into a near fistfight with Goldman at a gym
>> > weeks earlier. It seems that Goldman was mouthing off
>> > to his prepster biddies how he was banging OJ's wife and
>> > the son overheard it and confronted him.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Mike
>> >
>> > moon12@erols.com
>> >
>> > "Hope? There's always hope, Mr.Farnsworth." -DB
>> >
>> > *gmurphsniffle* <tm> & <c> 2000 Kiko Wu
>>
>> Seems I heard different look at:
>>
>> http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm
>>
>> --
>> There are no simple solutions,
>> only intelligent choices.
>>
>> Alexander Graham Bell.
>