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wtf are you talking about. damn man you should know as well as anyone that there are hard working people who are poor. yup all those poor mojados need to stop wasting their money.

 

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I don't understand how race has anything to do with this. She is rich, she got a top-notch lawyer - and she got off. OJ did the same thing. Playing the race card has gotten to the point where it's flat-out annoying.

 

when's the last time a rich black guy got screwed by the legal system?

 

You seriously think that OJ had nothing to do with Nicole's murder?

 

You're right, she's rich and a rich black person mightve been able to get off as well. But don't pretend that if a poor black guy is on the stand that the average person will not naturally stereotype the individual as being a drug dealer that society has no place for.

On the flip side, a rich white girl with access to money doesn't fit the usual profile of a drug dealer and consequently jurors are more likely to believe that she can be rehabilitated and made into an honest citizen of society.

Lawyers are a good thing but much of a trial rests on the stereotypes and framing by the jurors. People are just naturally more likely to garner sympathy for a rich white girl who they probably can identify with better than a poor black man who they can't identify with.

 

Nobody said that everything is equal. But if you're rich, black or white, you can afford better legal representation which enhances your chances of acquittal.

See Simpson, O.J, Jackson, Michael, Bryant, Kobe, and others. Hell Ray Lewis took part in a murder and got a slap on the wrist.

It's of course not a given - you can still lose if the chips are stacked too much against you like with Rae Carruth.

OJ's not one case, he's just another in a long line of rich people who maximized their chances by spending the money required to beat the system. In this sense, the only color that matters is green.

 

the difference I see in cases involving rich blacks vs. rich whites is the public outrage. people on this board still talk about o.j., they were outraged when mike got off, people still think kobe is guilty.


now maybe that's just my perception, it maybe that these people just happen to be famous also.

 

OJ killed someone and Mike molests little boys. Why shouldn't there be an outrage?

Our wonderful president is getting away with murder and look at the outrage it has caused.

Not everything is racism and I say that as nicely as I can. I'm not being a dick, just making a point.

 

I guarantee you more people in this country were concerned about o.j. and mike than they are about this war in iraq. bush was also re-elected. but see, this also the problem with your response, bush has faced no consequences because of his actions. mike and o.j. did face consequences for their alleged mis deeds and they were exnorated and yet we still talk about o.j. 11 years later.

 

I agree with the point that she would've gotten off easier because she didn't fit the stereo-type "drug dealer" profile. I'm just so sick of, mainly black people, using the race card in just about every situation. To me, this story is about a rich person buying her freedom. I am not racist - and was raised not to be. And I also realize that racism still exist in todays society. But I don't believe it's ANYWHERE near the level that people complain about. It's almost like today if you're black and get pulled over for speeding, the only reason the cop pulled you over is because you're black. It's getting ridiculous.

 

I feel Bush should face charges but what can I do? I think there are more people today that think he is off his rocker than there used to and just wait until histroy gets a hold of his dumbass. It just seems to me that he is doing so much damage to our country that there should be some way of legally getting rid of him.

I think the reason that people bring up OJ and MJ so much is because no matter what happened in court, its ridiculous to think that they were not guilty. I loved OJ and defended him as much as I could until the evidence just didn't support it anymore. I still wish to this day that something would come out to really show that he was innocent. I also kind of go by the Chris Rock mentality about OJ, "I'm not saying he should of did it, but I understand!"

MJ on the other hand is just a nutcase and a real danger to children.

OJ and MJ are also very public figures and they just happen to be black. Can you name for me some white people that did similar crimes that got off where the backlash was less extreme? I'm trying to think of some but I'm drawing a blank.

 

just to clarify, I'm not saying bush should face consequences, I'm just saying in the case of O.J. people should move on. Race played into the perception of the o.j. case, lets all be honest. black man and white woman, there were a lot of things going on in the country at that time. there was beginning to be backlash against welfare, affirmative action, etc. the o.j. case was the perfect storm. we were a couple of years removed from rodney king, and o.j. was really the first trully marketbable black athlete.

as far as m.j., I will agree that was more about celebrity.

 

Lower profile cases, with different scenarios.

Andrea Yates WAS convicted, and is awaiting retrial after her appeal was successful on procedural grounds.

She's not "about to get off" by any means. She's about to get a new trial. Meanwhile she remains incarcerated in the mental health unit of the state prison.

If Durst was Fred Durst, of course there woudl be outrage. Meanwhile it's just another guy who very few people nationally have ever heard of, aside from a few stories on 20/20 or whatever. But I'm sure in the local community there was a fair amount of outrage in 2003 when it happened. But the arrest and trial lwere not national news like with OJ.

Imagine what would happen if Ken Lay/Skilling get off. You think there weill be no outrage over rich people buying their way out of jail? Ha ha ha.

 

agreed. too many blacks go looking for it.... just watch "Black. White." the black husband/father looks for racism in every single instance; even when Bruno tells him after a few days in the makeup that he didn't notice one incident where he felt discriminated against. and then his son, who tells him he never sees it and doesn't view the world that way - what does the father say? "you're not looking hard enough." WTF is that? it's like he's forcing his kid into believing that racism is everywhere and that he'll be discriminated against his entire life whether he sees it or not.

that's a crock of ****.

 

what's a crock of **** is you basing your opinion on blacks about some stupid ass t.v. show but that's par for the course.

EDIT: don't you realize that the reason for that show is to look for racial differences?

 

Where in any of that did he say that he is basing his opinion of blacks on a TV show? He was giving an example of the type of behavior that he doesn't care for.

Do you disagree that some black people pull the race card when it is not appropriate? Do you disagree that some black people seem to have a chip on their shoulder? Do you disagree that other people would be turned off by this behavior? Do you disagree that that kind of behavior most likely hurts black people more than it helps?