@Advocate,
You responded:
It is too bad that you (admittedly) have a closed mind.
Where did I EVER admit to having a closed mind? I am very OPEN-minded and it is apparent as a person of color, with personal experience growing up in the segregated South and the inability of some, emphasis on SOME, okay?
People of European pursuasion, who have been indoctrinated to see me and other persons of color as not being REAL Americans, patriotic, caring parents, coming from 2-parent homes where one or more adults WORK, own a home, have a firm belief in God or whomever they choose to worship, marry, etc. YOU are firm in your beliefs, so don't tell me, what I should feel!
YOU:
Wiki is right, the defense alleged this and alleged that. However, it should have been clear to any intelligent person that the allegations were baloney. I remember Cochran alleging that the Detective Furman had a syringe, containing OJ's blood, used to place the blood here and there. Cochran never explained how Furman got OJ's blood, much less the blood of the two victims.
ME:
One of the detectives had a sample of OJ's blood that instead of sending it to a lab to test for DNA, carried it around in his pocket and while OJ was in custody, "planted" same blood on socks on the bedroom floor, on the steering wheel, as attested by a medical specialist of Asian origin and the prosecution, wasn't aware of it, until the doctor testified. California policemen are notoriously prejudiced against Mexican/African and Native Americans living in California, shoot first, question later, etc. Notoriously prejudiced!
BTW, I have a bridge I would like to sell to you.
ME:
Oh really?
That's DITTO for me and before you post, please back it up with FACTS as I did. You tend to "shoot from the lip" making assumptions, based on your own bigotry, taught to you, since you've shown no evidence, that you have friends or relatives of other races or even associates you encounter. It's all black and white for you. Have you ever lunched voluntarily with another race? Visited their homes? Sent a get-well or thank you card? Called concerned about any of the above mentioned races?
This is America, where the Constitution is supposed to guarantee ALL of its' citizens with certain rights, 3 being, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
If all of this is true, why were Africans held as Slaves against their will? Why were Catholics discriminated against? I once had an Irish supervisor, a former nun, who left the convent to support a sick mother tell me, that at the company we worked for, had signs that said, "Catholics and Jews, need not apply".
I still feel the comfort of her arms around my shoulders, when I complained about an incident, about a comment made to me, derogatory to my race, which under the guidelines of our handbook, I felt obliged to report. In other words, she felt my pain and hurt, that in that particular decade, the 80's, it wasn't a faux pas on the offenders part; it was the way they were taught to see people of color from centuries of being "entitled", to express themselves in that manner.
The trial against OJ Simpson, was a public "lynching" by the police who were convinced that he was guilty, had no real proof, so his blood sample had to be "planted", to clinch a guilty verdict.