This is Why

Excerpts from The Undefeated - H/T Ben

O.J. was the lesser of two evils
‘I was rooting much more against the LAPD than for Simpson.’ By Michael Wilbon

Now, as then, white friends and colleagues reacted with horror when they perceived we were “rooting for O.J.”

Why are you rooting for him to escape the police?

Why are you cheering his acquittal when there was so much evidence against him?

Why? Because there has been overwhelming evidence against white murderers and rapists for 400 years. and when black victims got no justice, there was usually zero national outrage. To quote Malcolm X, perhaps the chickens had come home to roost. Turnabout brought some teeny-tiny measure of a sense of universal justice, if not justice in our legal system. For every O.J. Simpson (and there seemed to be only one) there were thousands of Byron De La Beckwiths littering American history, as if the evidence against him wasn’t overwhelming after he murdered Medgar Evers and nonetheless walked for three decades.

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What Made in America has done, in my case, is hardened my original positions. It has nothing to do with whether I believe Simpson committed the murders (I do). But the fact that Clark arrogantly presumed that she would connect with black female jurors – as if she was Oprah – only to find out the black female jurors hated her. The fact that she and Bill Hodgman are still essentially lamenting on camera that they were unable to rig an all-or mostly-white jury enables anybody who looks closely to see their true colors. Clark isn’t as loathsome as Fuhrman, who is nearly as dangerous now as he was then. He proclaims on camera “They found a flaw in me,” as if his racist policing was merely a flaw.

http://theundefeated.com/features/o-j-was-the-lesser-of-two-evils/