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Originally posted by ztawinthropgirl
Along the lines with Susan Smith, I don't think it was a racial issue. I believe it was just a crazy woman doing something unimagineable. She had to think of a description of someone that didn't look like any of the people in Union because everyone knows everyone in Union.
With OJ Simpson, I believe he was the one that planned the whole entire crime and hired someone to commit the murder. He has bad knees from his football career. Granted, he's strong enough to beat someone up, but the way the prosecution described the crime scene, I don't believe he could have ran fast enough or been nimble enough to climb anything to get out of sight.
I don't identify anyone by their race. I don't know many people that do identify someone by his or her race, and I know a lot of people. I also live in the Southeast, which still has the stigma of having racial issues. Granted, there are areas in the Southeast that are racially-charged areas. Every geographic area of the United States has somewhere that has groups of races which don't get along or they have some kind of preconceived notion about another's race or gender. Other races have precconceived notion about white people, and so on and so on.
I identify someone by their character and personality and intelligence. I don't care what gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation you are. If you have the qualities I seek in a friend, then, so be it . . . let's be friends and go on with our lives. I may be one of the few people that have that attitude. I just see people as people. If I were hiring someone, I am not going to hire you because of your gender or race. I will hire you because you have the qualities and qualifications for the position and the company.
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I don't think the murder was racial, but the fact that she implicated that a black man abducted her kids and that awful stereotypical description that she gave was. But the main point in that case - which America rightly did not overshadow with the racial point - was that she murdered her kids...(as a mother of 3 - one being an infant - I still get very emotional about this).
I can't believe you drove down the road. I would've gotten ill.
And I think you're right about OJ.
I spent most of my childhood in a verrrrry small town in SC (big culture shock after leaving NY)with one stoplight. When I was a teen, I remember loosing a ring during a play and going to the customer service booth for help (Charleston). I was talking my head off and the man behind the glass looked right through me as if I wasn't there. We call it "the stare" (the philosophy that 'you are nothing - therefore I see nothing') and growing up - were used to it. And this was in 1989. In 1991 or 1992, my husband - then boyfriend - went there with our college choir. At the hotel, my hubby was trying to get assistance in finding our rooms. The person (I think he was the janitor, but I can't remember - 3 kids'll do that to you) looked right thru him as if he wasn't there and refused to respond. Being from Brooklyn, he thought the guy didn't hear him and kept pressing the issue. I had to explain to him what the "stare" was.
Things must've changed alot in the past 10+ yrs in SC, but I doubt it. I applaud you, however on not being that way.