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Originally Posted by Princess keke  I know nothing about the OJ trail so I really can't speak on it but I am glade that now he is in jail for his wrong doings and he didnt get away with it. Like I mentioned earlier I think the only reason why this went so big is because at first it wasn't even going to be a trail. They were trying to sweep it under the rug like nothing ever happened. They wasn't really communicating with his parents and would really give them information. This was try and has been stated even by Zimmerman layer. I think they felt like getting the story out would give them the opportunity to have a trial and it did. |
During the OJ aftermath, there was anger and frustration but no protests or celebrities ranting or black preachers calling for further action and I wonder if today, if a black man killed a white child we would get the same huge reaction by any of these same "players" in this drama.
Still, I really do get it - I understand to the slight extent that I can from my perspective - how frustrated and hurt black and hispanics must feel in this country that often never gives them an equal shot to the same extent the white race is. I don't know why racism exists in people and why it stands century after century and there is such mistrust among the races from way back. I wish I could figure it out. I've heard it said that if the tables were turned and whites were in the minority in America to the extent the black race is, whites would be just as discriminated against in every way. I don't know why, but I doubt that somehow.
Hopefully the protests and marches and Tweets will stay peaceful and eventually turn to include some other dead children and work somehow to make things better for their little peers still living. And I hope no children die in the protests due to fights or violent encounters such as occurred in Sanford that night. But unless I'm misunderstanding the burden of proof or evidence that exists and AG Eric Holder knows something I don't, it doesn't look like the fed has a single thing to charge GM for as to a civil rights violation of TM unless a lot of credible witnesses and documents appear with all kinds of hard and fast proof beyond reasonable doubt that GM had a pattern of hating black people, was racially biased against the black race and can show that that mindset then directly led to and was a
substantial contributing factor to his shooting and killing Trayvon Martin.