re: The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story series long thread

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Seriously, do most black people still think he's innocent? My mom at the time was a teacher at an inner city mostly black high school. She said they played the verdict live in classrooms and it was like every person just won the lottery when it was announced. She said everyone ran into the hallways and started partying and screaming "we won". Also students were coming up to the white faculty and screaming racists things at them, Etc.

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I too was a teacher at the time; my school was approximately 50/50 black/white. I will never forget standing in front of my class watching my students' reaction to the verdict: the black students (and teachers) acted in a similar fashion as your mother described and the white kids just sat there, stunned and silent. it was an epiphany for me; when push comes to shove it's black vs white. It was my first year teaching and when that verdict was read it was as if many of the ideologies I absorbed from a New England education evaporated at that very moment. Sad, really.

I followed Dominick Dunne's coverage of the trial in Vanity Fair. His book on the subject, Another City, Not My Own, is fascinating. I am going to re-read it..