Race complicating OJ case

Delmer 2022-10-20 07:23:19

1. The interviewees in the documentary all have their own biases about OJ and the murder. 2. We should exam the murder case from the perspectives of the involved and of the stand-byers. 3. We should consider the history of supressing blacks and also this specific murder case separately. 4. Last reflection: This case is not a historical victory of a black man against LA police brutality, but an unfair virdict of a rich and prestigious black man fleeing a murder; This case shouldn't be seen as all black people fighting against centuries' old racial injustice, but a single case about OJ, a black with nationwide fame. The recent Floyd case also proves that America has a long way to go to racial equality Road to go.

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O.J.: Made in America quotes

  • Marcia Clark - Interviewee: [on whether to have OJ Simpson try on the leather gloves that was recovered from the crime scene at Rockingham and Bundy] Chris says I want to do it and I told him in no uncertain terms why we should not be doing this, and he said if we don't do this: they will, then I said let them and we can show why it was a bullshit experiment why it was never going to work between the shrinkage and the latex, it's never going to fit in the same way, don't do this: it was the biggest fight Chris and I ever had.

  • Fred Goldman: [referring to OJ Simpson answering the questions asked to him during his deposition in the civil lawsuit] He'd lied about everything! There's not one honest bone in his body. He's lived a life of fraud and being a fake for God knows how many decades, to a point where I think he just believes his own bull.