Ron,
I believe goldsnow was right in pretending that the OJ trial sums up pretty well the race issue in the US --however, goldsnow should have watched the WHOLE OJ Simpson ''movie''...
I remember watching the verdict live on CNN: when Judge Itoh(?) acquitted OJ for every criminal charge, OJ's face unwound like he was escaping the hot seat! Personally, I'm convinced of OJ's guilt in what looked like a double first-degree murder but, as I put it to barrister Chris Hodgkin, there isn't such a thing as ''Justice''. The US Social Order was at stake (the OJ case unfolded after the Rodney King beating-up!). Anyway, the irony of this prime-time law soap happened when the LAPD got smeared by the racist scoffing of police officer Furman: OJ's lawyers asked for the jury to listen to the tape-recorded phone conversations of the Los Angeles Police Dept. So, the LAPD got embarrassed about being broadcasted worldwide as a bigot, severily prejudiced police corp, hence LAPD's police chief came to the press and told the journalists that everything was just fine within LAPD and Furman was an isolated black sheep, in short, the usual enervating talk --LAPD police chief was a black man. |
