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Originally Posted by badgeguy
I wonder what would have happened to OJ Simpson if something like this had happened after his acquittal??
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Yeah...okay....
If you were alive and conscious during that time, you would know this DID happen when O.J. Simpson was acquitted. It sometimes took a different form than street protests but it was outrage all the same. It was predominantly (not only) white people whereas the Zimmerman trial is predominantly (not only) Black people. As usual, the predominantly white outrage was seen as using their rights as U.S. citizens to voice their outrage and push for a civil suit. Since only white people can be rational and well-grounded, people are quick to pretend as though white people throughout history have just "silently let justice work however it works...be at peace out of respect for the system." Someone needs a history lesson including the O.J. Simpson verdict.
This will suffice for the time being:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...l-1576351.html
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-10-..._simpson-trial
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/08/we...j-simpson.html
http://www.cnn.com/US/OJ/daily/9510/10-04/women_react/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4934067
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Originally Posted by badgeguy
Like some of my coworkers keep pointing out is that back when OJ was acquitted, there were no protests from the white community over the outrage of a black man "possibly" killing white people.....
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Your coworkers (or the media you've been reading/listening to/watching) are clueless and do not realize how outraged many white people were and still are over the O.J. Simpson verdict. That is the selective memory that I keep talking about as it pertains to race and ethnicity. I worked in the legal field back then and distinctly recall white people, in general, being shocked and pissed. These white people, in general, did their own form of protest. Protest takes many forms. Some white people who are outraged do not engage in public outrage and protest because those whites realize that for every O.J. Simpson, there are hundreds of "Joe Horns".
And, as with many if not most defendants, O.J. Simpson's life and career were crap after he was acquitted. The white media generally LOVED O.J. Simpson before this happened but turned their back on him to either express their own outrage or avoid losing white customers who were pissed.
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Originally Posted by Kevin
What is "the white community"?
Is that like the white power/the South will rise again crowd?
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No, the "white community" exists just as the Black community, Asian community, Native American community, and so forth. Communities are groups of people with common identifiers. Common identifiers does not mean there is no variation within the groups and communities.