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2024-04-17 08:30:52 UTC
In 1995, there were two very different versions of the O.J. Simpson trial
playing out. For most of the country, the trial was a spectacle. A lot of
crazy stuff happened so much that most people dont remember all of it.
Overnight, for example, the National Enquirer tabloid morphed into a crack
legal publication that broke several exclusive stories about the proceedings.
They had 20 reporters working on the case, coming up with transcripts and
scoops that everyone else missed. And of course, Norm Macdonald made so many
jokes about the case that he was fired from SNL because of it. In the decades
since, there hasnt been any trial remotely like it covered wall-to-wall,
for months, by pretty much every channel in America. It was entertainment.
At the same time, in black areas of Los Angeles, and in major cities all over
the country, the O.J. Simpson trial wasnt just a spectacle. It was also
about revenge for the Rodney King acquittals and police corruption more
generally. Thats been discussed quite a bit over the last 30 years.
Whats gotten less attention is that, with the O.J. trial, for the first
time, it became widely acceptable to think about the deaths of white people
as necessary collateral damage to exact this kind of political revenge.
There was no social media at the time, and cable news was pretty sanitized.
So no one with a major television platform came right out and directly said
this. But they didnt need to. It was obvious, especially if you looked at
how little concern there was among O.J. supporters for Nicole Brown and Ron
Goldman and their families.
WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show
Nicole Brown, as you might remember, was repeatedly beaten by O.J. before she
divorced him. And then he hunted her down and nearly cut her head off.
Everyone knew this, but not everyone cared. It was apparent from the
reactions when O.J. was acquitted. It was euphoria, and it broke down along
racial lines. Watch:
Its pretty disturbing footage, especially since at the time it didnt cause
a lot of outrage. Thousands of people all over the country, most of them
black, celebrated the acquittal of someone who obviously just murdered two
people. At the time, serious people understood that this was jury
nullification. But no one really explored the implications. What does a
country look like, over the long term, when murdering white people is seen as
acceptable, for any reason? What happens when the media and major political
figures endorse this barbarism?
No one seemed to care, even after a juror from the O.J. trial came right out
and admitted, many years after the fact, that 90% of the jurors knew that
O.J. was guilty. But the jurors acquitted him anyway, because they were
driven by a desire for payback. Watch:
She knows its wrong to let a killer go free, but she did it anyway. So did
the rest of the jury.
This has all been known for a while now. Whats less widely known is that the
Los Angeles DA at the time, a Democrat named Gil Garcetti, engineered this
acquittal. An attorney named Dilan Esper has cataloged all the ways that
Garcetti rigged the trial in favor of O.J. The big one is that he didnt try
the case in Brentwood, which is in West Los Angeles. That would have been the
logical place to hold the trial because Simpson had lived in Brentwood for
two decades. But Brentwood is almost exclusively white. And Garcetti
recognized that, for O.J. to have the best chance of acquittal, given the
racial politics of the case, he needed to pick a new venue. So he chose
downtown Los Angeles where he was able to secure an overwhelmingly black
jury with just a couple of white people on it.
Garcetti made several other decisions to swing the case for O.J. For example,
he declined to pursue the death penalty after publicly meeting with Johnnie
Cochran who was just about to join O.J.s defense team. That was a
significant decision because a death penalty jury has to answer yes to the
question of whether theyd be OK with sentencing someone to death. That weeds
out a lot of Left-wing jurors immediately. So Garcetti chose not to do it.
Additionally, Garcetti chose to present the prosecutions entire case during
pretrial hearings, giving the defense a chance to scope out all of the
witnesses well in advance of trial. As Esper points out, this ultimately
worked to the defenses advantage in a major way. O.J.s lawyers picked up on
one inconsistency in the pretrial testimony relating to the amount of blood
collected by police investigators and made it a major part of their
defense.
These were not errors, or sloppy work by the prosecutors. These were
intentional efforts by Garcetti to avoid convicting O.J. Simpson, which would
have ended his political career. Pretty much every black voter in Los Angeles
would have voted to remove Garcetti if O.J. was found guilty. Indeed, even
after O.J. Simpson was found not guilty, Garcetti refused to prosecute him
for perjury in the civil trial, even though it was clear O.J. Simpson lied
several times. Thats how committed Garcetti was to keeping O.J. Simpson out
of jail.
Again, anyone paying attention during this whole saga understood everything
that was going on at the time. This is not new information. What is new is
that, now that O.J. Simpson is dead he died yesterday of cancer
mainstream news outlets are just coming right out and admitting it. Theyre
acknowledging that O.J. Simpson was guilty, but that he simply couldnt be
convicted because of race politics.
Here for example is a CNN journalist explaining on-camera yesterday that in
1995, a lot of black people loved to see a black man get away with murdering
two white people. She catches herself mid-way through, but its clear what
shes saying. Watch:
Wed have a much better understanding of todays race politics, and how to
put an end to it, if we could have admitted this back in 1995. A lot of
people wanted to see a black man get away with murder. The two white people
were simply collateral damage.
A professor named Marc Lamont Hill spelled this out very clearly yesterday:
O.J. Simpson was an abusive liar who abandoned his community long
before he killed two people in cold blood. His acquittal for murder
was the correct and necessary result of a racist criminal legal
system. But hes still a monster, not a martyr.
In other words, you can kill white people without penalty. As long as the
criminal legal system is racist and people like Marc Lamont Hill believe
its irredeemably, irreparably racist forever then its fine to basically
decapitate white people. Thats according to someone who collects a paycheck
paid by the government of New York to teach the next generation.
Yesterday, Hill elaborated on his reasoning, essentially saying that O.J. had
every right to kill his victims because a police officer involved in the case
used a racial slur at some point in the past. Watch:
Youll notice theres no regard whatsoever in Marc Lamont Hills mind for the
two victims. Their families arent entitled to justice, all because a
detective on their murder case used a racial slur. If you use the n-word,
then any white person whos tangentially related to you deserves to die.
Thats basically what hes saying. A lot of people thought this in 1995, but
they didnt say it in public. Thats changing.
The reason several mainstream outlets spent yesterday eulogizing O.J. Simpson
as some kind of victim is that they approve of what he did. Theres no other
way to spin it.
The New York Times, for example, wrote that quote, A jury in the murder
trial . cleared Mr. Simpson, but the case ruined his world. They quickly
edited that out of the piece when people pointed out that he stabbed two
people to death and therefore ruined their worlds, too.
For its part, NPR wrote the following headline on something called Threads:
BREAKING NEWS: The football great Orenthal James Simpson, known as O.J., has
died.
The Associated Press, meanwhile, tweeted: Legendary athlete, actor and
millionaire: O.J. Simpsons murder trial lost him the American dream.
Those are all real headlines. Everyone knows exactly whats going on here.
The only way to get glowing headlines like this from the corporate media is
if you kill people they dont like. Its the same reason The Washington Post
described that ISIS leader as an austere religious scholar. O.J. Simpson
killed members of a disfavored demographic, so theyre mourning him as a
victim, not the people he killed.
This kind of attitude was everywhere yesterday. There was no focus on the
victims whatsoever. CBS News interviewed one of O.J.s lawyers from the 1995
trial, named Carl Douglas. In the interview, he comes out and declares what
he saw as a main benefit of the trial. Again, it had nothing to do with
justice or finding the truth or the real killers.
Instead, it was about showing to the world that black lawyers can get
defendants off, too. Watch:
And whatever you think of this verdict, for Black Americans, it was not
speaking about O.J. Simpson per se.
That about sums it up, straight from one of O.J.s lawyers. The O.J. trial
was not about O.J. Simpson. The trial was arguably the beginning, or at least
a landmark moment on the way towards, our current era of racial insanity. The
race hustlers of the time rallied around O.J. not because they thought he was
innocent but because they saw him as an agent of revenge. And Democratic
Party elites in Los Angeles like Gil Garcetti did everything they could to
ensure O.J.s acquittal so that he could serve that function.
But nobody was more explicit than CNN contributor Ashely Allison, a former
senior advisor in the Obama White House. Listen to what she chose to say out
loud on national television yesterday:
He represented something for black Americans because it was two white people
whod been killed. Thats what black Americans connected with, according to
this woman. They felt affinity with O.J. because he brutally slaughtered
white people. Talk about saying the quiet part out loud. Although, as weve
seen, its hardly the quiet part anymore.
This mentality has metastasized over time, helped along by Barack Obama,
leading to the rise of BLM, and culminating in Floyd and the 2020 riots, and
then the post-Floyd era of DEI. Now, 30 years later, so-called race
relations have deteriorated to the point that the race hustlers finally feel
comfortable coming out and telling us what their motives were all along.
Yes, O.J. Simpson is dead. But the legacy of that trial, particularly the
racial violence and distrust that it normalized, is still very much alive.
--
Let's go Brandon!
playing out. For most of the country, the trial was a spectacle. A lot of
crazy stuff happened so much that most people dont remember all of it.
Overnight, for example, the National Enquirer tabloid morphed into a crack
legal publication that broke several exclusive stories about the proceedings.
They had 20 reporters working on the case, coming up with transcripts and
scoops that everyone else missed. And of course, Norm Macdonald made so many
jokes about the case that he was fired from SNL because of it. In the decades
since, there hasnt been any trial remotely like it covered wall-to-wall,
for months, by pretty much every channel in America. It was entertainment.
At the same time, in black areas of Los Angeles, and in major cities all over
the country, the O.J. Simpson trial wasnt just a spectacle. It was also
about revenge for the Rodney King acquittals and police corruption more
generally. Thats been discussed quite a bit over the last 30 years.
Whats gotten less attention is that, with the O.J. trial, for the first
time, it became widely acceptable to think about the deaths of white people
as necessary collateral damage to exact this kind of political revenge.
There was no social media at the time, and cable news was pretty sanitized.
So no one with a major television platform came right out and directly said
this. But they didnt need to. It was obvious, especially if you looked at
how little concern there was among O.J. supporters for Nicole Brown and Ron
Goldman and their families.
WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show
Nicole Brown, as you might remember, was repeatedly beaten by O.J. before she
divorced him. And then he hunted her down and nearly cut her head off.
Everyone knew this, but not everyone cared. It was apparent from the
reactions when O.J. was acquitted. It was euphoria, and it broke down along
racial lines. Watch:
Its pretty disturbing footage, especially since at the time it didnt cause
a lot of outrage. Thousands of people all over the country, most of them
black, celebrated the acquittal of someone who obviously just murdered two
people. At the time, serious people understood that this was jury
nullification. But no one really explored the implications. What does a
country look like, over the long term, when murdering white people is seen as
acceptable, for any reason? What happens when the media and major political
figures endorse this barbarism?
No one seemed to care, even after a juror from the O.J. trial came right out
and admitted, many years after the fact, that 90% of the jurors knew that
O.J. was guilty. But the jurors acquitted him anyway, because they were
driven by a desire for payback. Watch:
She knows its wrong to let a killer go free, but she did it anyway. So did
the rest of the jury.
This has all been known for a while now. Whats less widely known is that the
Los Angeles DA at the time, a Democrat named Gil Garcetti, engineered this
acquittal. An attorney named Dilan Esper has cataloged all the ways that
Garcetti rigged the trial in favor of O.J. The big one is that he didnt try
the case in Brentwood, which is in West Los Angeles. That would have been the
logical place to hold the trial because Simpson had lived in Brentwood for
two decades. But Brentwood is almost exclusively white. And Garcetti
recognized that, for O.J. to have the best chance of acquittal, given the
racial politics of the case, he needed to pick a new venue. So he chose
downtown Los Angeles where he was able to secure an overwhelmingly black
jury with just a couple of white people on it.
Garcetti made several other decisions to swing the case for O.J. For example,
he declined to pursue the death penalty after publicly meeting with Johnnie
Cochran who was just about to join O.J.s defense team. That was a
significant decision because a death penalty jury has to answer yes to the
question of whether theyd be OK with sentencing someone to death. That weeds
out a lot of Left-wing jurors immediately. So Garcetti chose not to do it.
Additionally, Garcetti chose to present the prosecutions entire case during
pretrial hearings, giving the defense a chance to scope out all of the
witnesses well in advance of trial. As Esper points out, this ultimately
worked to the defenses advantage in a major way. O.J.s lawyers picked up on
one inconsistency in the pretrial testimony relating to the amount of blood
collected by police investigators and made it a major part of their
defense.
These were not errors, or sloppy work by the prosecutors. These were
intentional efforts by Garcetti to avoid convicting O.J. Simpson, which would
have ended his political career. Pretty much every black voter in Los Angeles
would have voted to remove Garcetti if O.J. was found guilty. Indeed, even
after O.J. Simpson was found not guilty, Garcetti refused to prosecute him
for perjury in the civil trial, even though it was clear O.J. Simpson lied
several times. Thats how committed Garcetti was to keeping O.J. Simpson out
of jail.
Again, anyone paying attention during this whole saga understood everything
that was going on at the time. This is not new information. What is new is
that, now that O.J. Simpson is dead he died yesterday of cancer
mainstream news outlets are just coming right out and admitting it. Theyre
acknowledging that O.J. Simpson was guilty, but that he simply couldnt be
convicted because of race politics.
Here for example is a CNN journalist explaining on-camera yesterday that in
1995, a lot of black people loved to see a black man get away with murdering
two white people. She catches herself mid-way through, but its clear what
shes saying. Watch:
Wed have a much better understanding of todays race politics, and how to
put an end to it, if we could have admitted this back in 1995. A lot of
people wanted to see a black man get away with murder. The two white people
were simply collateral damage.
A professor named Marc Lamont Hill spelled this out very clearly yesterday:
O.J. Simpson was an abusive liar who abandoned his community long
before he killed two people in cold blood. His acquittal for murder
was the correct and necessary result of a racist criminal legal
system. But hes still a monster, not a martyr.
In other words, you can kill white people without penalty. As long as the
criminal legal system is racist and people like Marc Lamont Hill believe
its irredeemably, irreparably racist forever then its fine to basically
decapitate white people. Thats according to someone who collects a paycheck
paid by the government of New York to teach the next generation.
Yesterday, Hill elaborated on his reasoning, essentially saying that O.J. had
every right to kill his victims because a police officer involved in the case
used a racial slur at some point in the past. Watch:
Youll notice theres no regard whatsoever in Marc Lamont Hills mind for the
two victims. Their families arent entitled to justice, all because a
detective on their murder case used a racial slur. If you use the n-word,
then any white person whos tangentially related to you deserves to die.
Thats basically what hes saying. A lot of people thought this in 1995, but
they didnt say it in public. Thats changing.
The reason several mainstream outlets spent yesterday eulogizing O.J. Simpson
as some kind of victim is that they approve of what he did. Theres no other
way to spin it.
The New York Times, for example, wrote that quote, A jury in the murder
trial . cleared Mr. Simpson, but the case ruined his world. They quickly
edited that out of the piece when people pointed out that he stabbed two
people to death and therefore ruined their worlds, too.
For its part, NPR wrote the following headline on something called Threads:
BREAKING NEWS: The football great Orenthal James Simpson, known as O.J., has
died.
The Associated Press, meanwhile, tweeted: Legendary athlete, actor and
millionaire: O.J. Simpsons murder trial lost him the American dream.
Those are all real headlines. Everyone knows exactly whats going on here.
The only way to get glowing headlines like this from the corporate media is
if you kill people they dont like. Its the same reason The Washington Post
described that ISIS leader as an austere religious scholar. O.J. Simpson
killed members of a disfavored demographic, so theyre mourning him as a
victim, not the people he killed.
This kind of attitude was everywhere yesterday. There was no focus on the
victims whatsoever. CBS News interviewed one of O.J.s lawyers from the 1995
trial, named Carl Douglas. In the interview, he comes out and declares what
he saw as a main benefit of the trial. Again, it had nothing to do with
justice or finding the truth or the real killers.
Instead, it was about showing to the world that black lawyers can get
defendants off, too. Watch:
And whatever you think of this verdict, for Black Americans, it was not
speaking about O.J. Simpson per se.
That about sums it up, straight from one of O.J.s lawyers. The O.J. trial
was not about O.J. Simpson. The trial was arguably the beginning, or at least
a landmark moment on the way towards, our current era of racial insanity. The
race hustlers of the time rallied around O.J. not because they thought he was
innocent but because they saw him as an agent of revenge. And Democratic
Party elites in Los Angeles like Gil Garcetti did everything they could to
ensure O.J.s acquittal so that he could serve that function.
But nobody was more explicit than CNN contributor Ashely Allison, a former
senior advisor in the Obama White House. Listen to what she chose to say out
loud on national television yesterday:
He represented something for black Americans because it was two white people
whod been killed. Thats what black Americans connected with, according to
this woman. They felt affinity with O.J. because he brutally slaughtered
white people. Talk about saying the quiet part out loud. Although, as weve
seen, its hardly the quiet part anymore.
This mentality has metastasized over time, helped along by Barack Obama,
leading to the rise of BLM, and culminating in Floyd and the 2020 riots, and
then the post-Floyd era of DEI. Now, 30 years later, so-called race
relations have deteriorated to the point that the race hustlers finally feel
comfortable coming out and telling us what their motives were all along.
Yes, O.J. Simpson is dead. But the legacy of that trial, particularly the
racial violence and distrust that it normalized, is still very much alive.
--
Let's go Brandon!