Did you mean to make everyone in this comic look white?

Or so I gather. No one up here in SF that I know even mentioned it.

And yeah, I 'spect its those melanin-deficient that are particulerly excited.

The proposition that this thug is ipso facto innocent of anything he's accused of just because he's black... now THAT is racist.

The proposition that this thug is ipso facto innocent of anything he's accused of just because he's black... now THAT is racist.

Sure, it would be ... if anyone actually proposed it.

You'd send this cartoon to the families of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.

Go ahead. I dare ya.

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As I understand it, black folk say they were celebrating O.J.'s acquittal in '96 because it was a celebration of Johnny Cochran's legal talent...and NOT because a black man got away with killing two whiteys.

Well, if we non-black folk did any celebrating over O.J.'s sentence for his current ills, it was only because an egomaniacal, wife-beating, murderous asshole finally got a tiny sliver of just desserts.

Any questions?

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Great. Y'all can go back to (righteously) celebratin' Obama's win.

And may the black man they call Michael Vick one day get castrated by the jaws of a pit bull.

{Yeah, I went there.}

I didn't see many people celebrating the OJ conviction. I didn't even see many comments about it on the Newsvine thread. But a lot of people felt the same sort of grim, joyless satisfaction that they felt when Ira Einhorn (a white guy, in case you're interested) finally went to prison, thirty years late, for the brutal murder of a young woman, after jumping bail and helping himself to the best years of his life in Europe living off other gullible women. Justice delayed can sometimes still be at least partial justice. OJ and Ira are both where they belong. And as Eddie Murphy reminded us all in "Barbershop," every black person knows that OJ did it.

its a comic strip.

O.J. appears to be a scumbag (I really don't know him), lots of people are scumbags.

O.J. may have gotten away with murder... a lot of rich assholes have gotten away with murder.

To say that there wasn't a racial element to either of the O.J. cases is not dealing with reality.

He was given 33 years for armed robbery in which no one was injured and there is some evidence that the memorabilia that he was trying to recover was stolen from him. It does not make what he did right or legal.

The average murder in the US gets 12 years. Rapists 6 1/2 years.

The charging and sentencing of this case was all about revenge on a rich black man who may have murdered his blonde wife and her boyfriend.

That's all.

Amadou Diallo was shot 41 times by police officers and they were exonerated.

- TyRon Lewis, unarmed, 18 years old, shot and killed at point blank range during a traffic stop in 1996 by St. Petersburg Police

- Marquell McCullough, unarmed, 17 years old, shot at 15 times and killed as he sat in his truck in 2004 by Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies. The Sheriff's department later stated that McCullough was not the person being sought by deputies. Both patrol car cameras were mysteriously not working.

- Jarrell Walker, unarmed, 19 years old, shot in the back by police and killed while he lay asleep, his baby sleeping in the next room, 2005

- Javon Dawson, unarmed, 17 years old, shot twice in the back and killed after a graduation party, June of 2008 by St. Petersburg Police.

African-American males could be hanged with impunity - Tuskegee Institute records of lynchings between the years 1880 and 1951 show 3,437 African-American victims, as well as 1,293 white victims. Lynchings were concentrated in the Cotton Belt: (Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Texas and Louisiana).

There is a divide in human experience in America and guess who got the dirty end of the stick?

"Getting" O.J. will not fix anything. We need to work to build communities where opportunity is available to all.

I have been through Watts - in L.A. for those of you not familiar and I despair for the child raised there. There are two Americas.

African-American males are 7.4 times more likely to wind up in prison than their white counterparts. There is a problem.

In 2005, homicide victimization rates for blacks were 6 times higher than the rates for whites.

There is a problem.

Poverty rate in black households is 24% - white 8% - there is a problem.

"Getting" O.J. will not fix anything.

... who the hex is going to continue O.J.'s ongoing search for Nicole's killer on the golf courses of America?

The charging and sentencing of this case was all about revenge on a rich black man who (may ha...nope, definitely) murdered his blonde wife and her boyfriend.

Exactly. Why should it be otherwise?

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I am an ethnic minority immigrant living in the US.

I've gotten a taste of racism, xenophobia and prejudice. Many times.

(Lemme put it this way: I'm East Indian, but I can/do get mistaken for Mexican, Arab or Native American...

Which, to your garden-variety bigot, either makes me an "illegalito", "terrorist" or "drunk homeless Injun"...)

But ya know what?

If an Indian-American killed two people and got away with it, I wouldn't cheer. Hell, I'd feel disappointed that he/she would be seen as representative of our ethnic group.

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The bottom line: Identity politics helps no one. It does nothing to end racism and prejudice...

...and can even end up hurting the causes of oppressed groups.

I for one changed my views on the black American community after watching 'em cheer the first OJ verdict. Can you imagine then how white Americans responded?

At least most of the community learned its lesson when Michael Vick's case came around...

when a room full of Hampton University students sprang out of their seats and cheered for a murderer, simply because he was black, and got away with it.

Keith, if there is any celebrating being done, at least it is for justice, and not for the opposite thereof. If your folk want real acceptance in this world, they have to change. It's the same thing that turns off most whites to David Duke. We don't celebrate him because he is white, we scorn him because he is a hateful bigot.

Do you think that white people would be happy if Blagojevich were to get off? On the flip side, there is Marion Barry. Reelected after he was exposed to be a criminal.

Teach your people Keith. Do something good for them and the rest of us too. We are tired of black bigotry.