Ross Cassell -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 RC> Hello Mimi!

 RC> 23 Jun 08 22:23, you wrote to me:

 RC>>> The OJ Simpson case, no way could he have done it, he is black.

 MG>> I agree with most of your list (didn't the La Cross DA lose his job
 MG>> over that case?)

 RC> Yes he did, but after the fact after all the damage was done.

I agree that simply losing his job doesn't make up for the damage done to
those boys. An arrest, false or not, stays on a record permanently. I
believe those boys also lost time in classes and weren't allowed to play
anymore.

 RC> (As opposed to having waited to press charges or not in favor of a
 RC> accurate investigation)

 RC> If a bunch of black athletes had done this to a white stripper, the
 RC> black community would have screamed bloody murder if the local DA acted
 RC> as quickly with shoddy evidence.

Very true.

 MG>> However in the OJ case you living 3000 miles from LA
 MG>> must be unaware of the factors that led to his acquittal. I'd like to

 RC> He was black and blacks have been given the shaft in this country for
 RC> years, therefore in the age of civil rights, with Klahns black
 RC> experience excuse, it isnt possible that a black man could possibly
 RC> commit this crime.

Klahn is a bigot and therefore can't see that he and his kind do worse for
blacks in the long run than the KKK did.

 RC> OJ Simpson did nothing for his contemporaries, he actually did something

Yeah, it's funny that way other ethnic groups do for the less fortunate and
are recognized for it. I've always thought it odd that disgustingly rich
black guys do nothing for others. IE Michael Jackson used to have more
money than G-d, but never did anything charitable with some of his cash.
His karma is kicking his ass now. He's losing Neverland, his estate.

 RC> unthinkable to them, he up to this incident comported himself as if his
 RC> lineage was not important, he thought of himself as everyones equal and
 RC> he was.

 RC> He was like every other celebrity, he had star power and name recognition.

 RC> When this was going on, every black person I talked with about this
 RC> case, all thought no way he could have done it, and many of these
 RC> opinions were formed before Mark Furmans testimony.

 RC> I mentioned Michael Vicks case..

 RC> Last year, ESPN held a town hall meeting in downtown Atlanta to talk
 RC> about his case. The meeting was comprised of a host/moderator, another
 RC> host/moderator whom chimed in from stuff coming over the Internet. They
 RC> also had a panel of five personalities, some from sports journalism,
 RC> others were current or former NFL players, they also had a series of
 RC> guest experts and then the audience, mostly black. (I dont infer the
 RC> audience was mostly black on purpose, but that its make up was that way
 RC> because of the concern of the community)

 RC> In Michael Vicks case, he was different from OJ, in that Vick was
 RC> involved with charities and he was trying to help the under-privileged
 RC> people with similiar backgrounds that he had.

I think his punishment should be that some guard do to him what he did to
those guards.

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