 Looks like White America finally got O.J., the object of their angry obsession, and his stupidity let them do it. The question still remains open for me whether he's being set up by his so-called acquaintances -- perhaps by this guy, who's actually profiting from Simpson's demise. But it's not arguable that Mr. Simpson, who is 60 years old, has the brains of a 1 day old squid. Now he's facing life in prison for an alleged armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel (indictement here.) The state is obviously over-charging O.J. and his cohorts in hopes of not creating the next Marcia Clark, Chris Darden and Judge Ito. It's a sad spectacle, and one that O.J. himself helped orchestrate by being so arrogant, beligerent and so ... damned ... stupid.
Still, there are principles at stake in this case that are bigger than O.J., like vindictive prosecution, white America's (I believe racist) obsession with O.J. (in my opinion, because he exploded the old taboo about Black men sleeping with white women, and then beat the system by getting acquitted for the Brown-Goldman murders), and the media's clear double standard (where's the outrage over Robert Blake beating those wife murder charges? Hm, Geraldo?)... and then there is the rather sorry, pitiful spectacle of the Goldmans, whose seemingly unquenchable obsession with scraping up Simpson's assets, including his largely worthless memoribilia, has become an embarassment. I wish that all of this would go away, but unfortunately, I know the media too well to think that it will. Welcome back to the future.
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