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Originally Posted by badgeguy
Like some of my coworkers keep pointing out is that back when OJ was acquitted, there were no protests from the white community over the outrage of a black man "possibly" killing white people.....
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Could that possibly be because there is no history in this country of Jim Crow laws or other legal and societal systems that denied justice to white people on a wholesale basis, making the OJ verdict an acceptable anomaly rather than another example of "the black man" once again getting away with killing "the white man"?
No, that couldn't be it at all.
I think your co-workers may lack the basic critical thinking skills to understand that this isn't about one white man killing one black man. It's about the perception that while all people are equal under the law, some groups of people are still more equal than others.