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Do you believe that most black americans were right about O.J. Simpson?
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20 upvotes, 29 comments. Sidechat poll by Anonymous in OnlyPolls. "Do you believe that most black americans were right about O.J. Simpson?"
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Anonymous 10w

So if you’re saying most black Americans, you’re meaning the 78% that believed that he didn’t do it. And you’re asking if I believe that the people who didn’t think he did it were right. I do not.

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Anonymous 10w

Hardly anyone on this app was even alive during that trial or knows the details of the story. When tf are people gonna get over this shit? White people looooved OJ until that fuckin trial now he’s the boogeyman. Innocent people get life in prison every fuckin day and guilty people walk.

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Anonymous 10w

Honestly, I’m so young I don’t know majority of the case. For the longest time I thought OJ Simpson was a character on the Simpsons who just REALLYYY liked orange juice

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Anonymous 10w

Tribal bias

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Anonymous 10w

Black kids have been underperforming their white peers since the 60s and the lowering of educational standards to keep less black kids from repeating grades or failing subjects has led to a drop in the educational quality and the outcomes for the nation for decades. It’s also the biggest reason for grade inflation which has been a thing since the 80s at least but it’s not “appropriate” to talk about these things in society. Behavior and culture is what needs to change

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

Why?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 10w

Bc I think he did it. I think most people think he did it. That whole trial was nuts. The only reason the variability is so much high between black people and white people is because of race.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

Well doesn't that show the racial divide? Most black people knew that he was innocent

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

When a white person gets accused, they innocent until proven guilty. But when a black person gets arrested, they are always guilty, even after they been found to be innocent

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 10w

I think it does show the racial divide, but that depends more on if you think he did it or not. You think he’s innocent. I don’t, and it has nothing to do with his race.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

Yes it does historically black people have get harsher sentences, even for crimes they didn’t do, why do you think that the racial divide exist here?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 10w

I’m not denying that racial prejudice has existed. Obviously that’s true. What I’m saying is that the evidence was there, it just so happened that the police work was sloppy and it created enough reasonable doubt. That whole idea goes away though if he actually committed the crime. Which he did, imo.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 10w

That’s like asking ppl to get over slavery and Jim Crow.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 10w

…asking ppl to get over the OJ verdict is like asking people to get over slavery and Jim Crow? You have got to be kidding me

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 10w

Crazy take lmao. He as literally found innocent in the murder trial, so if you believe he was innocent, justice was served.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 10w

You never took history class? OJ was an important case for Black America

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 10w

… as impactful as SLAVERY and JIM CROW?

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 10w

I understand very well why the case was important for black folk and I didn’t learn it from a history class. My comment is more about the continued obsession white America has with demonizing OJ and taking such HUGE issue with the verdict. As if criminals don’t walk free every day. Do they take the same amount of issue when innocent people get life sentences? Ofc not. Also if my comment is the one you’re taking issue with here maybe you’re the one who needs a history lesson

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 10w

That is not true at all

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

This is an example of the permenant difference that’s existed between black and white people. Black people think a standard from 70 or more years ago is relevant today and should absolve present day black people from punishment for their crimes. White people do not hold this standard. Also, black juries overwhelmingly vote innocent when the defendant is black, and this is not the case for white people. Surveys and data analysis show this.

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Anonymous 10w

The entire Rodney king thing was also bullshit since the video did not show that he was high on pcp and drunk, and was resisted arrest while swinging at cops after he had just left them in a high speed chase, and he was out on bond for drugs or domestic violence

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 10w

Yeah get over that too tf nobody alive was invoked in either of these periods nor passed the legislation during the Jim Crow era, and black people wanted separations because they asked for it during the civil war. I learned about this in middle school in 2007 cuz I actually read the parts of the textbook that weren’t assigned reading

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 10w

A textbook in 2007… was it perhaps… written by a white man?

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 10w

Really basing your whole argument off of a middle school text book. Bestie pick up some college literature written by BIPOC people and learn about our horribly whitewashed history

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 10w

You’re an idiot

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 10w

Ya wrong and will always be, but you don’t care about the blackwashing of the country’s history so I’m good. I’ve done hundreds of hours of research as an adult on these topics and know much more than all of the race baiting Bipoc authors you want to mention. You aren’t oppressed today, and in the Jim Crow era you died 50 X as much from Diarrhea, 40 X as much from syphilis, 3-5 X as much from falling down staircases, 3-5 times as much from choking on food ect. than Blk ppl did from 80 yr of YTs

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 10w

It was written by Ghislaine Maxwell’s father actually. But the point I was making is that in history textbooks it directly described how black representatives asked for separate societies from whites because they would never forgive them for slavery. Even though only 2% of free white people even did it, and 2% of free black people participated in it as well. Anthony Johnson a black man was the 1st slave owner in America as well.

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 10w

1, I’m a white person. 2, Jim Crow era still affects Black Americans today. Gerrymandering still exists heavily in our society, which leads to Black kids getting worse education because their families cannot afford to live in “nicer areas.” Black people cannot afford to live in “nicer areas” due to hiring biases, which AI is further pushing if you do literally any research

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 10w

🧢 black Americans have done 3-5 X the rate, per 100k, of râpè, múrdèr and robbèry than white people every decade since 1880. Hence people that recognize this don’t want to live around it or send their kids to schools where they are more likely to be physically assaulted. Gerrymandering has been done primarily by the democrats party going back decades, and it has nothing to do with the actual behavior of the black people in these areas. The behavior and cultural practices are the issue.

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