Topic : 07/02 The O.J. Book Battle

I cannot claim to speak for my race a whole, but many of my black friends view the OJ trial and the aftermath events as typical of white America's perception of black men as boogie men.  It was about a white woman being victimized and a black man being the culprit.  The victimization of a white woman by a black man historically invokes fear and anger from whites in our society and frustration and dispair from blacks.  If this would have happened barely 50 years ago, OJ would have been hanged before the facts were even argued at trial.  Thank God for progress.

I personally think that OJ is innocent, at least there is definitely reasonable doubt that he is guilty.  For this book, I believe he pulled deeply from his imagination to help develop it.  He's had over 10 yrs to think about it and like most best-selling authors, he brought forward a provocative tale to sell the book.  I know that actors have the talent to bring out emotions to make their performances come to life and feel real to the audience.  Why couldn't he have done that for this book?  Plus, who would read a book from OJ about how he didn't do it.? The 1st trial has already accomplished that.  Plus, according to the show, his children signed off on it.  If his kids (they are adults now) believe that their father is innocent of the murder of their mother, why can't the rest of America?

Clearly the author is biased.  Certainly today on Dr. Phil, we only heard one side of the story.  If Dr. Phil could bring on OJ or his children, it would be great to hear the whole story.   

My heart and prayers go out to the Goldman and Brown families for their losses.  I pray that the Goldman's pursuit of vindication leads them to the love of Jesus.  No one should have to live which that much hate in their hearts for another person. 

Oj is an egotistical self absorbed KILLER, he is a sociopath and should be rotting away in jail.

I also believe that the book is a confession with a smirk on his face. He is sick, he is a pig, and the only reason he is not sitting in prison is because the juror's we're more afraid of more riots in they're streets than of letting this pig walk.

I really can not understand why any one would object to the Goldman's fighting for the rights to this book.

I can't say and have not heard yet what they plan to do with the money, but can you honestly say that if it was your family member that you would just let they're killer profit from writing a book about the murder??? Anyone in they're right mind would fight to stop the book, or at least stop that pig from profiting from it.

Me personally I would of done the same thing but I will be disappointed with them if they don't use the money to fund agencies that help women who are the victims of spousal abuse etc. I really would have thought that nobody would have bought that stupid book but I am often disappointed by people, and this was no exception.

~Nixi

With all due respect OJ has all but admitted his guilt.  He doesn't even pretend to be innocent.

I do believe there is a real issue here that could disadvantage blacks and other minorities, it just didn't affect OJ.  the issue is that our legal system is highly impacted by wealth.  OJ had the money, he walked.  Money talks.

Your racism troubles me and the idea that you feel that so many feel that black men are the boogie man.  That is not my experience.  However, I have lived in mostly smaller cities where the differences between white and black do not seem large.  In our community which has a large illegal population of Mexican's there are very few problems with white and blacks, we are from the same country, speak the same language, raise our children with the same values...  Just doesn't seem to be a problem.  However that is just my view.

your the one making this a race issue. All I saw then and all I see now is a pathetic little boy who threw a temper tantrum because one of his "possessions" had the nerve to leave him. Not a black "boogie man" like another person wrote, I don't care what race you are or what mix of race the couple is I am equally as sickened when ever a man kills his wife or when a wife kills her husband!

 Aside from that I am kind of offended that you "don't care" that 2 PEOPLE are dead but you're all upset because this woman didn't appreciate Mr. Cochran acting like a jerk, and not having any sympathy for the victims families!

I really hope you reread your post and realize your not helping racism die your keeping it alive.

God bless you,

~Nixi

He Is the Lizzie Borden of our time!

He's a cold-blooded sociopath, who has no conscience. Why would he care about how a book effects his children when he is believed, by most Americans, to have murdered his childrens mother!   

I really believe that when someone commits a crime as terrible as  murder, and gets away with it, their conscience is eventually going to get the best of them. In Oj's case I think he is just busting at the seams to tell the truth, especially to anyone who wil listen. I also think that he is smug enough to think that people actually want to read that trash. He has had all of this time to listen to his kids ask about their mother, and I'm sure that everytime they do, he feels a little more guilt, he's probabally had many threats from people in general, probabally alot of hate mail, and I would like to think that he's also had alot of time to replay the events of that horrible night over and over again. As for the actual publishing of the book, I think that there is always going to be someone who is sick enough to buy his book.

I also think that if people really want this man to pay for his crime they should not buy it and let the damn thing sit on the shelves and collect dust. This should also be done out of respect for Nicole Brown, Ron Goldman, nad their families.