Before watching the film, I heard the outline of the Century Case, in one sentence: A black sports star killed his wife but was acquitted. After watching the film, I realized that the case is far more complicated than the outline, the reality is far more complicated than the imagination, and the emotion is far more complicated than the result.
What kind of person is Simpson? There is no doubt about athletic talent, as well as a lot of sophistication and sophistication. Personality, some people say that it is high emotional intelligence, affinity, and charm, but in my opinion, there are only two sides. On the one hand, it is a refined self-interest that does not start, does not make enemies, and does not pay.
Choose to ignore your black identity when things are going well, and choose to stay out of it when you should speak up for the black community. Emphasize your black identity in times of calamity and shamelessly exploit black community sentiment and sympathy. How can he be a good man?
Some people say that it is his freedom of choice not to speak for the black group. First, even if you do not belong to the black group, as long as this group is discriminated against and bullied, as a kind and upright individual, you should have the urge to stand up even once. choose. Second, do you think he really has been treated by white people in American society? At least not until he made a small achievement, but he deliberately erased this memory. He said that every time he walked into a room, he never realized he was the black man, but it was just wishful thinking. This is the goal of his efforts, but the direction of his efforts is wrong. He thought that as long as he succeeds, he can decouple from the ethnic group, and in the end, he has to rely on the ethnic group to protect his life, which is really sad and ironic.
The greatest sadness is that the long-term humiliated and damaged dignity, violated and deprived rights of the black community has finally been won by a wrong way, a murderer who wants to get rid of his ethnic identity. It's not that they are stupid, it's that they are so helpless. Do they have a better way? The subtext in their hearts is: If we can't keep such a black man so beloved by the white world, who else can we keep?
Nico and Rong died innocently, but Simpson was able to get away with impunity, and it was indeed the white community who paid for their actions. Did you experience it? I knew he was a bad guy but couldn't kill him. The long-term experience of black people is that you know I'm a good guy and you're going to kill me. You are sanctimonious: I never discriminate against racism! I am fair and just! Can you see the superiority and superiority in your bones? Never can.
Any case, once it becomes a referendum and resorts to moral trial, will be mixed with too many emotions, and it will be farther and farther away from the truth and the evidence. Maybe that's why so few cases are heard publicly now.
Today, more than 20 years later, the death of Freud, a young black man, shows us, has America changed? Maybe, but definitely not enough. I just hope that the accumulation of such negative energy will not be released on such wrong nodes and individuals. It is easy to accumulate hatred, and it is too difficult to cultivate love. Only wish for peace.
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