Racism and the O.J. Simpson Trial
Do serial killers become more of a threat to society if they are African Americans? Is a murder less vicious if it was done by a White person? Do you think that Orenthal James Simpson would have been accused of a lesser crime if he was White? Today's society is not one that is racially balanced, but I feel fairly confident that murder is still murder no matter whom it is performed by. I realize that in our nation's history, certain races were not given equal rights, and I don't oppose those who state that society still doesn't balance on a fulcrum of equality. Nevertheless, I do feel that racism, at least from where I stand, is less. I believe that racism is a pendulum, swinging to both opposites before finally settling somewhere in the middle. To say that racism didn't play a part in the O.J. Simpson trial would be ignorance. However, I do believe that racism wasn't the primary reason for the hype that surrounded the most controversial trial of the century. O.J. Simpson was a model not only to the African American rac
This quote brings forth the authors view that the media portrayed the trial through racist eyes therefore causing the public to think less of him due to the fact that he was an African American. The author continues to say, "When he was good, he was all-American, but when he was bad, he was black. Illuminating Simpson's blackness, his 'dark side,' his hidden essential black self became a way of explaining the crime, which at moments seemed less that he might have murdered two people than that he had fooled millions (Ducille 137)." I am not stating that racism was not used in the trial on both sides in order to play on the facts to sway public ideas, however I don't feel that the silent majority viewed O.J. Simpson in a different light, racially, due to the trial. O.J. Simpson was the same hall of fame running back, except that his terribly violent side had been revealed to the criticizing public eye. If the parents of John Benet Ramses had been indicted for the murder of their daughter, no less amount of media attentio
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