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Tuesday, April 3, 2007 01:40 PM

Nicole Simpson's fate

SHAM clearly implied that his mom and others like her thought that Nicole Brown Simpson got what she deserved for being a bitch.

That makes her pretty fucking crazy in my book. Because a woman gave her man shit she deserved to be brutally murdered?

SHAM started this 'nicole" thing with the rhetorical question of "why did black women cheer when (nicole simpson) was murdered" - to paraprhase.

I don't know of any SANE black woman that cheered this woman's murder, of any color. As for the cameras panning the black women at a spousal abuse safehouse - I concluded that these women misguidedly were cheering the "real justice' that O.j. received after the decades of injustice in the court system that black men perceived in our court and penal system. As i said, misguided, and completely losing sight of the victim's fate.

BUT, from all accounts Nicole Simpson did not seem vested in her final fate either. She dated O.J., including taking a a "family" vacation with him a few months before her murder. O.J. had keys to her house; O.J. still participated in extended family celebrations with Nicole; Paula Barbieri had to hide in closets when Nicole "popped in" to avoid Nicole's anger. Always seemd to me that Nicole and those cheering batgtered women shared one thing in common: sympathy for their devils to the point of self- destruction.

Why didn't ALL Black women rise up in outrage at the verdict? Well, THIS black woman had and HAS a life, and this was just another murder case with a prosecution gone Hollywood star-fuck awry. There is a system in place in this country and the system worked. We just did not like the answer. I thought the verdict was pathetic, but i also thought it was more pathetic that this trial was a made-for-T.V. movie and NO ONE seemed to take it seriously until the reading of the verdict. A lessson to be learned from Nicole's tragic fate is that we are OUR OWN caretakers, bound by natural law to watch out and take care of ourselves; sound the necessary alarms and stay clear of danger. Just because O.J. was good to (her), he was NEVER good for her. She knew this. She was obligated to protect herself by steering clear. Apparently Ms. Sierra sees it this way.

Also, a lot of those white folks left grieving and indignant over the O.J. trial outcome NOW buy his autographs and were prepared to buy his book (and still may when it eventually comes out). To generalize, to me a lot of white people seemed more upset about the "race card" introduced than Nicole and her friend being decapitated on her front porch.

The injustice of the O.J. trial was that that trial got far more attention and care than cases against battered women before. And after. Nicole's grisly death and O.J.'s undeserved freedom has changed nothing with how women are physically threatened and abused. Perhaps this is what riles Ms. Walsh to make the decision that she has.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 01:40 PM

Nicole Simpson's fate

SHAM clearly implied that his mom and others like her thought that Nicole Brown Simpson got what she deserved for being a bitch.

That makes her pretty fucking crazy in my book. Because a woman gave her man shit she deserved to be brutally murdered?

SHAM started this 'nicole" thing with the rhetorical question of "why did black women cheer when (nicole simpson0 was murdered" - to paraprhase.

I don't know of any SANE black woman that cheered this woman's murder, of any color. As for the cameras panning the black women at a spousal abuse safehouse - I concluded that these women misguidedly were cheering the "real justice' that O.j. received after the decades of injustice in the court system that black men perceived in our court and penal system. As i said, misguided, and completely losing sight of the victim's fate.

BUT, from all accounts Nicole Simpson did not seem vested in her final fate either. She dated O.J., including taking a a "family" vacation with him a few months before her murder. O.J. had keys to her house; O.J. still participated in extended family celebrations with Nicole; Paula Barbieri had to hide in closets when Nicole "popped in" to avoid Nicole's anger. Always seemd to me that Nicole and those cheering batgtered women shared one thing in common: sympathy for their devils to the point of self- destruction.

Why didn't ALL Black women rise up in outrage at the verdict? Well, THIS black woman had and HAS a life, and this was just another murder case with a prosecution gone Hollywood star-fuck awry. There is a system in place in this country and the system worked. We just did not like the answer. I thought the verdict was pathetic, but i also thought it was more pathetic that this trial was a made-for-T.V. movie and NO ONE seemed to take it seriously until the reading of the verdict.

Also, a lot of those white folks left grieving and indignant over the O.J. trial outcome NOW buy his autographs and were prepared to buy his book (and still may when it eventually comes out). To generalize, to me a lot of white people seemed more upset about the "race card" introduced than Nicole and her friend being decapitated on her front porch.

The injustice of the O.J. trial was that that trial got far more attention and care than cases against battered women before. And after. Nicole's grisly death and O.J.'s undeserved freedom has changed nothing with how women are physically threatened and abused. Perhaps this is what riles Ms. Walsh to make the decision that she has.

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