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Professor: O.J. Case Proved W****s Put “Conditions” on Support of Black Athletes

by Andrew
2 days ago
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In one of the more i***tic columns we’ve read recently in the Washington Post (which, as you know, is really saying something), Quinnipiac University Professor Phillip Lamarr Cunningham said that the arrest and trial of O.J. Simpson proved that white America will support black athletes…but only as long as they meet a few “conditions.”

“The Bronco chase, coming in the middle of the fifth game of the NBA Finals, cast a brief pall on what had been a watershed moment for black athletes,” Cunningham writes. “To suggest that Simpson overshadowed a decade’s worth of goodwill toward black athletes would be an overstatement. But Simpson, arguably a major source of this goodwill, certainly made clear the conditions w***e A******ns put on their goodwill, even as the nation’s greatest black athletes continued to thrill and amaze.”

Um, he murdered two people. If that crosses the line of the “conditions” under which w***e A******ns are willing to support and accept this particular black athlete…well, what’s the problem? The bigger problem, if there is one, is that an overwhelming majority of b***k A******ns – including those that found themselves on the Simpson jury – decided to support this black athlete despite the clear evidence of his guilt.

Cunningham uses this bizarre premise to look back on politically outspoken black athletes like Muhammad Ali and Jim Brown, both of whom, he says, proved too controversial to break through to mainstream white America. He then says that O.J. changed all of that, turning his back on politics and even eschewing any emphasis on his blackness to finally break through, star in Hertz commercials, and nab himself a starring role in the Naked Gun movies. He was followed by Michael Jordan and other nice, friendly, apolitical black athlete-celebrities. Those kinds of black athletes, Cunningham argues, white America could accept.

“The chase not only disrupted the NBA Finals — it also unsettled the comfort w***e A******ns had developed for black athletes,” he writes. “For years, black athletes, and Simpson in particular, were held up as signs of the progress made toward bridging America’s racial divide. That night, however, he served as a stark reminder of how conditional that comfort was.”

Again: Conditioned on the assumption that our prominent celebrity athletes are not, you know, homicidal maniacs.

Simpson’s legal “dream team” managed to turn a case of obvious double-homicide into a case about r****m in America. It’s interesting to see that all these years later, there are still i***ts working in academia who buy into that t***sparent ploy.

Carol Kelly

Simpson murdered in cold blood two white people who were unarmed and the televised trial was shoddy at best. Anyone who’s ever owned a pair of nice kid gloves know that if they’re wet and dried without special care, you can’t get your hands in. That was what proved him innocent! Those disposed gloves. Two human beings. He needs to keep his mouth shut and it had nothing to do with black athletes. It had to do with a former black athlete who thought he was above the law.

Carol Kelly

And yes! Isn’t it interesting that r****m is still at the front? Obama divided this country more than it has ever been divided. It’s time to stop judging everything and everybody by their race or their sex. Let’s just all get on the same track and get things done.

dongreen76

Circumstantial evidence is never clear cut.The only thing that is clear cut is your innate white prejudices toward every one that is not of your ethicnicity,and persuasion,to which you will not own up to.I can except the fact that he could have did it,but with certainty,no way.I could only envoke the traditional rule of law - `proof beyond the shadow of a doubt "- .. since I don't have the God like power of omnipotency."YOU PEOPLE"evidently do.

Mikeyavelli

Yeah, and Lebron h**es Trump. Why? Because he's supposed to h**e Trump.
Black athletes call the white team owners s***e owners.
Even white lefties h**e white people. Biden could get more support if he did his speeches locked in a pillory with ashes on his head and a sign: Forgive Me I Am White. Then he'd be the perfect kommiecrat kandidate.

Wonttakeitanymore

AND the fact that they were ripped purposely by the lawyer!

Mikeyavelli

And the ridiculous assumption by the black jury that DNA could be bought or replicated. They didn't know what the presence of Simpson's DNA meant. They thought it was planted.
And, OJ still hasn't caught the k**ler.