re: O.J. Simpson up for parole this summer

The shoes man.... he said he would never where those ugly arse shoes... yet there is a picture of him walking across the football field with THOSE on. The evidence was overwhelming..... it's just unreal that he was found not guilty.

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There is an extremely large chunk of the population (mostly of a certain demographic) that is adamant that he is innocent, and would love for them to be trolled.

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Even black people admit OJ did it these days. I think once Barry got into office, they stopped caring about Juice, a man who never cared for anyone but himself.

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I hope he gets out and admits to everything. There is an extremely large chunk of the population (mostly of a certain demographic) that is adamant that he is innocent, and would love for them to be trolled.

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So you want him to get out and say "yeah I killed them", knowing nothing can be done about it now, and you think black people would be the one's getting "trolled"?

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I've discussed this with several black people recently because of the show on TV. Unanimously think he's innocent and was framed by racists.

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Hmmm, at my work, they were all sure he killed them. Granted I'm mostly out of the office and don't work with tons of people.

I work with some intelligent and well-educated black folks that think he's innocent or won't discuss it. They'll respond with "the court found him innocent so he's innocent"...shite like that.

Its hilarious.

Have one co-worker that 100% thinks and argues that he was framed. Gives specifics of the frame job and who the real murderer is (I forget his story, hard to hear through my laughing).

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Ehh, maybe 20 years ago. I think most folks today think he did it

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538.com- Most blacks now believe OJ committed murder

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A striking poll finding was cited often in coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder trial in 1994 and 1995: Most white people thought the former football star was guilty of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, while roughly the same proportion of black people thought Simpson was innocent.

In the two decades since Simpson was acquitted by a majority-black jury, the racial gap has narrowed significantly. In two recent polls, more than 50 percent of black respondents said they thought Simpson was guilty — up from about 20 percent in most polls before, during and right after the trial.

Why the shift? Developments in the murder trial and events in Simpson’s life probably have played a role. Changes in demographics and race relations may also have contributed to shifting black opinion about the case.

Right after his acquittal, Simpson vowed to find the real killer. In the 21 years since, no plausible alternative theory has emerged, “O.J.” director Ezra Edelman said. Simpson was found liable for Goldman’s death and for battery of Brown Simpson in a 1997 civil suit. And rather than chasing leads on the killings, Simpson has surfaced in the public eye in unflattering contexts: facing charges of road rage, starring on a prank television show, writing a book that was (or wasn’t) a confession and committing armed robbery, a 2007 crime for which he is still imprisoned.

“Those are factors that may have swayed people’s opinion,” Edelman said.

Another potential factor: The people answering polls today aren’t the same as those polled at the time of the trial. People who weren’t yet born then are now old enough to be polled, and many who answered the mid-’90s polls have died. People too young to remember the details of the trial might mostly know about it from subsequent media coverage, which often has treated Simpson’s guilt as a given, said Carl Douglas, part of Simpson’s murder trial defense team.

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I do think OJ Simpson is a major reason Trump is in office. The media saw they had another Simpson trial on their hands, so they played him up for the ratings. OJ irreversibly ruined the media, and should rot in hell for that, nevertheless for the murders.

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So lets say 55% So 45% of a certain race seriously think this dude is innocent? It should be 0%. Like WTF. He admitted it. He wrote a book detailing how he did it. The evidence is overwhelming.

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Agreed. It's pretty damn amazing how people will believe what makes them feel better, in the face of all obvious evidence to the contrary.

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This is not true.

I've discussed this with several black people recently because of the show on TV. Unanimously think he's innocent and was framed by racists.

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I'm black and think he was guilty, so stop speaking in absolutes, and go put on another Phish album.

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I have always thought he was guilty, but had no problem with him being found innocent due to the incompetence of the prosecution.

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So just because the prosecution was terrible means he should be allowed back on the street to beat and kill another innocent woman?