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O. J. Simpson: 1947-2024
Up until June 12, 1994, white America was convinced that O. J. Simpson was “one of the good ones.” When it turned out that he wasn’t — and that black America supported him, anyway — race relations took a permanent turn for the worse.
June 12 is my birthday and, possibly overdosing on cake, I’d fallen asleep in my Hollywood apartment around dusk, only to be rustled from slumber by my first wife, who shook me awake to say, “Jimmy — O.J. Simpson murdered his wife.”
We’d lived through the Rodney King riots two years earlier and saw Hollywood almost burn to the ground. Like most people at the time, we were surprised that a jury had acquitted the “four white cops” involved in his beating. Then again, the media had purposely obscured the fact that one of the “four white cops,” Theodore Briseno, was Mexican. And it wasn’t until at least two decades after the riots that I learned Rodney King had two partners with him the night of the beating. Unlike Rodney, they obeyed police orders, stayed on the ground, and emerged with barely a scratch.
Until the night that Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were slaughtered, however, most white Americans seemed to know the difference between O. J. Simpson and barely-sentient ghetto slugs such as Rodney King. The affable Simpson became a household name in 1968 when he won the Heisman Trophy and cemented his superstar status in 1973 when he became the first National Football League running back to rush for over 2,000 yards in a single season. During a time when black militancy was de rigueur for black celebrities, Simpson went out of his way to endear himself to white Americans. In the 2016 documentary OJ: Made in America, people who knew him quoted him as often proclaiming, “I’m not black; I’m O. J.”
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His murder trial was considered a slam-dunk victory for prosecutors up until the point that the word “nigger” was introduced as a star witness. In front of a stacked jury that included eight blacks and only one white female, F. Lee Bailey grilled Mark Fuhrman — the white detective who found the glove that was stained with blood matching Simpson’s DNA — about whether he’d uttered the word “nigger” at any time over the previous ten years. Fuhrman denied that he had. When prosecutors entered into evidence tapes where Furhman had repeatedly used the word in conversations with writer Laura McKinny, that’s all that the black jury needed to acquit Simpson of murder.
When white Americans beheld black Americans celebrating the fact that someone who almost certainly murdered a white woman and the “white” Ron Goldman, a tiny white lightbulb lit up over millions of previously egalitarian white heads: For black Americans, blood was thicker than the facts.
In OJ: Made in America, the black female juror Carrie Bess admitted that she and other black jurors acquitted Simpson as “payback” for the Rodney King verdict:
Interviewer: Do you think that there are members of the jury that voted to acquit O. J. because of Rodney King?
Bess: Yes.
Interviewer: You do?
Bess: Yes.
Interviewer: How many of you do you think felt that way?
Bess: Oh, probably 90% of ’em.
Interviewer: 90%? Did you feel that way?
Bess: Yes.
Interviewer: That was payback.
Bess: Uh-huh.
Interviewer: Do you think that’s right?
Bess: [holds up her hand and shrugs]
After a 1998 interview with journalist Ruby Wax where Simpson yet again denied killing his ex-wife and Ron Goldman, he had a little fun at her expense by pretending to stab her with a banana while making screeching noises reminiscent of the shower scene in Psycho.
In 2007, Simpson trolled the entire planet by writing a book called If I Did it: Confessions of the Killer.
On October 3, 2008 — 13 years to the day after he was acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman — he was sentenced to prison for 33 years in connection with an armed robbery in Las Vegas where he’d stolen sports memorabilia at gunpoint.
He was paroled in 2017. In 2024, prostate cancer proved to be the only thing that O. J. Simpson couldn’t outrun.
But his lasting contribution to American race relations is that his behavior, as well as that of his black supporters, forced many white Americans to think, “Maybe there aren’t any good ones.”
Black Women: A Total Eclipse of the Brain
Last Monday, as a solar eclipse carved a path of totality over the United States starting in southwest Texas and ending in northeastern Maine, black women’s intelligence remained relatively unaffected.
The hippo-faced Sheila Jackson Lee has represented the 18th Congressional District of Texas since 1995. During her absurdly long tenure, she has ameliorated the self-doubt and occasional guilt pangs of anyone who may suspect that black women are dumber than a box of burnt matchsticks.
While visiting California’s operations center for the Mars Pathfinder in 1997, Ms. Jackson Lee — who for a time served as the top-ranking Democrat on the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee — asked whether the Pathfinder had taken a snapshot of the American flag that Neil Armstrong had planted on the Moon in 1969.
In 2003, Lee griped that hurricane names were too “lily white” and suggested that out of concern for equitable representation, future hurricanes should receive names such as “Keisha, Jamal, and Deshawn.”
In 2010, Lee demonstrated her nonpareil grasp of geopolitics and geography by declaring that “[t]oday, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working.”
In 2014, she made a statement implying that she believed the US Constitution was 400 years old.
While speaking at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston last Monday, Jackson Lee — who’s a Yale graduate, I shit you not — ululated thusly about our solar system:
Provide unique light and energy so that you have the energy of the moon at night and sometimes you’ve heard the word full moon and sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle which is made up mostly of gases and that’s why the question the question is why or how could we as humans live on the moon. The gas is such that we could do that. The sun is a mighty powerful heat that is almost impossible to go near the sun. The moon is more manageable and you will see in a moment, or not a moment, you’ll see in a couple of years that NASA is going back to the moon.
Not to be outdone in the stupe department by some hifalutin Congressbitch, at least two other black women decided to get violently superstitious over da eclipse.
In northern Florida last Monday afternoon, 22-year-old Taylon Nichelle Celestine reportedly told staffers at the motel where she’d been staying that God had told her to embark on a shooting spree for undisclosed reasons relating to the solar eclipse. She then jumped into her purple Dodge Challenger and, armed with an AR-15 rifle and a 9mm handgun, drove onto Interstate 10 and shot at two different drivers, hitting one in the arm and another in the neck but failing to kill either one. She was arrested and charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and improper discharge of a firearm.
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Is it too late to charge her with some kind of crime merely for calling herself “Taylon Nichelle Celestine”?
In the early morning hours last Monday way out yonder in California way, a black female “astrology influencer” named Danielle Johnson stabbed her boyfriend to death, then hopped into a car with her two children, aged nine and eight months, and fled the murder scene in her Porsche SUV. According to the Los Angeles police, while driving on the freeway Johnson shoved her two children out onto the asphalt. The nine-year-old was able to run to safety, but the eight-month-old was run over and killed. Johnson later perished after ramming her Porsche into a tree at 100 miles per hour.
Prior to the eclipse, Johnson, posting under the name “Ayoka,” had told her more than 100,000 Instagram followers that the eclipse would represent the “epitome of spiritual warfare” and that they needed to “pick a side” because “the apocalypse is here.”
If Sheila Jackson Lee, Taylor Nichelle Celestine, and Danielle Johnson are any indication, black women have already picked a side. That side’s name is “stupid.”
Extremely Scientific Survey Claims that Black Kids Feel Less Safe When Visiting White Parts of Town
“Visiting white parts of town make [sic] some Black [sic] kids feel less safe,” reads what is possibly the century’s most reality-inverted headline. Published by Ohio State News with a byline by a certain Jeff Grabmeier, I would assume that taxpayer dollars at least partially birthed this goofy article. I’d also assume that someone, somewhere on the editorial staff would have been awake enough to realize that the headline’s subject/verb agreement is wrong — i.e., it should have been “Visiting . . . makes.” And then there’s the inequitable-but-mandatory “Black/white” capitalization scheme, which should make any white kid in the country feel endangered.
According to Jeff Grabmeier, Friend of Negro Youths:
Some Black [sic] youth feel less safe when they visit predominantly white areas of their city, a new study in Columbus has found.
And it was those Black [sic] kids who spent the most time in white-dominated areas who felt less safe, said Christopher Browning, lead author of the study and professor of sociology at The Ohio State University. . . .
The study was published online recently in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
Data came from the federally funded Adolescent Health and Development in Context study, which involved 1,405 11- to 17-year-old youths in Columbus.
“Federally funded” — fantastic. So not only was this propagandistic puff piece funded by tax dollars, so was the survey which preposterously proposes that black children tremble in fear when visiting white neighborhoods. Check out the photo they chose to illustrate the “article.” Behold how Tardavious cowers in the foreground as a cluster of malevolent white thugs in the background silently terrorizes him with their unabashed whiteness.
The article continues:
This perception of being less safe in white neighborhoods may have real-life health consequences for Black [sic] youth. In a study published last year in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, Browning and colleagues measured hair cortisol concentrations in some of the same Black [sic] and white youths (690 total) involved in this research. High hair cortisol levels indicate elevated levels of chronic stress.
Okay, for starters, as a white prison inmate called “Snake” once informed me, black people don’t have hair, they have fur. He told me that this is confirmed in the Old Testament. And if black kids actually feel less safe when they’re in white neighborhoods — despite all the stats about who’s actually killing black people and where they’re killing them — they should stay the hell out of white neighborhoods.
Today is April 15, and it makes me nauseous deep in the pit of my lily-white tum-tum to realize how many thousands of dollars I’m shoveling to the IRS merely so they can smack me in the face with this kind of nonsense.
Iran Fires Missiles and Drones at Israel as the World Lurches Closer toward WWIII
On April Fool’s Day, in the midst of pummeling Gaza into dust to a degree that would have made the bombers of Dresden jealous, Our Greatest Ally struck an Iranian annex building next to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, killing 16 people.
Over the weekend, Iran sent hundreds of drones and missiles toward Israel, most of which were reportedly intercepted and shot down before even crossing into God’s Chosen Country. The US Air Force and the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force aided in Israel’s defense.
Again, it’s April 15, and without delving into the roots of the Federal Reserve and the bankers who shove young men through meat grinders for profit, I merely want to state for the record that I resent having to pay a penny of taxes to defend people who’d gladly see me and my kind wiped off the face of the planet.
It also occurred to me that the recent triumphalist jubilation about social media, particularly Elon Musk’s X, being more permissive toward Jew-naming and anti-Zionist sentiment may be premature. If we’re actually headed toward World War III on Israel’s behalf, the only thing this may signify is that intelligence agencies are loosening restrictions on “anti-Semitism” merely to compile lists of those whom they will subsequently charge with treason.
Or were you actually naïve enough to think that your screen name protects you from state surveillance? On April 15, take a moment to consider that you’re paying taxes to make it easier for them to spy on you.
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38 comments
I have to disagree with you on one point. Mark Furhman using the N-Word had little or nothing to do with the verdict. Those black broads had their minds made up long before they were even considered for jury duty. About all Furhman’s faux pas did was give them a convenient excuse.
Very true. But don’t overlook the mendacity of (((Marcia Clark))) and her House Negro, Christopher Darden. Judge Ito wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed either. He was so starstruck, it is surprising that he did not offer to wash the Dream Team’s feet.
Marcia wanted to make the trial about domestic violence, and the fact that two brutal murders were involved was almost incidental.
She did not include or did not fuss much with the best evidence gathered by the LAPD. The detectives were in profound disbelief but they effectively work at the pleasure of the politicians in the DA’s office when a case goes to trial.
So, at some point in the trial, the jury of mostly Negresses remained unimpressed by Marcia’s story of a Brother beating a White trollop. One news report leaked from the jurors was that the Prosecution was just “spinning their wheels.”
Then Marcia decided to make it about giving the jurors a voice on sending a message to the rayciss LAPD. This was the most politically-charged trial since the Rodney King affair. And Fuhrman made a perfect sacrifice.
Marcia or even the klutzy Mr. Darden could have repaired the damage fairly easily with a re-cross of Fuhrman after he denied saying the word Nïgger in the last ten years and then a cassette of him being consulted in the production of an edgy cop show was produced. Sheeeit. And Marcia deliberately chose not to soil her hands with him any further. In Fuhrman’s words, “Marcia left me twisting in the wind.”
Not being able to explain his answers, it looked like Fuhrman could be charged with perjury (and he later took a plea deal and was fined $200). Perjury charges are pretty rare and hasn’t happened so much since Alger Hiss. But when you “take the Fifth” you can’t be selective about what you will and will not say.
So when the Defense outrageously asked Fuhrman if he had planted any evidence in this case, he was forced to say blandly: “I wish to assert my Fifth Amendment privilege.”
The Defense presented no evidence whatsoever in support of this planting-of-evidence suggestion, but when you are dealing with a bunch of dumb Negro jurors, they are ready in advance to think the system butchered a couple of citizens just to frame a Soul Brother.
The civilian jury system needs to require IQ testing. Only those with above-average intelligence should be permitted to serve. This would eliminate most Negroes, of course.
And you get what you pay for. Pay jurors a respectable wage for their trouble. Serving as a juror is either important to society or it is not. Most jurisdictions pay their jurors a bus ticket and some pocket change for the vending machines. That is why nobody (besides unemployed daytime TV zombies) is willing to serve.
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In some ways, I was under the impression that the prosecution reasoned that if they just presented the facts of the case, O.J. would be found guilty. If they had a mostly white jury, he probably would have been found guilty. I remember thinking at the time about how naive the prosecution was.
“I have to disagree with you on one point. Mark Furhman using the N-Word had little or nothing to do with the verdict.”
The word is “nigger”. Please do not give this word the power of holy writ by treating it as heretical to use.
My apologies. I just didn’t want to alarm the people that control the comments section here at Counter-Currents.
The cops in the Rodney King case were railroaded after being acquitted on the state charges. Ridiculous that these guys were given time for taking out a drug addled maniac. Double jeopardy is meaningless in clown world.
The cops that got railroaded in the Rodney King case were due in part to President George H. W. Bush. His administration insisted on trying them on the federal level because they violated Rodney King’s civil rights. To the best of my knowledge,that is seldom if ever used, when a state loses a prosecution case. The federal government didn’t use it to try O. J. Simpson after his verdict. Another disappointment during the L.A. riots was the fact that President Bush sent in federal troops to put down the riot at the last minute. He also gave a press conference saying that he was disappointed in the Rodney King jury verdict, however, he was not going to tolerate lawlessness. He was basically trying to cater to both blacks and whites at the same time, which doesn’t work.
Yes, and the National Guard wasn’t even issued ammunition until the last minute.
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One of my best friends was black (sorry! I know that’s the most racist thing you can say!) during the O.J. biz and him and his boys, all of them much older than O.J., were incredulous that blacks gave a shit about him. Not for being a Tom or anything, but for being a douchebag. O.J. was a bore. Who “never did anything for black people” according to them. But they were Philly blacks.
I encourage you to listen to the entire five minutes of Shelia Jackson Lee’s remarks, including her fumbling with the glasses for over a minute. She also refers to the moon as a planet among other things. Also, we can’t leave out the retarded ramblings of Sunny Hostin of the View who somehow linked the recent earthquake on the east coast, the eclipse and the coming infestation of trillions of cicadas to climate change.
Right, The View broad deserves honorable mention.
On the Finding your roots?? tv show that nasty creature learned her ancestry included a slave owner/slave dealer. Being the great espouser of reparations that she is, she can pay herself.
I looked her up. She’s the “legal analyst” for ABC. Just to reiterate, she’s the “legal analyst” for ABC.
“Welcome to the program, legal analyst who doesn’t know what an earthquake or a solar eclipse is. Your thoughts?”
The fact that she is a Yale graduate is more evidence for why the ivy leagues, the social sciences, and higher education in general is losing credibility with a lot of people. Fanni Willis is another example, a lawyer who isn’t articulate and doesn’t understand the law.
Here’s another gem of their intellect.
Rep. Hank Johnson. Dem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q
Wow!
Hank really is one of the good ones.
Me and Hank Johnson in 2015 at a protest in Stone Mountain, GA. The usual suspects were demanding that the confederate imagery be taken down. I asked Hank what he thought, and he was surprisingly cool. Here’s the article I wrote about it.
Was it not that oj court case that made the kardashian family famous for no apparent reason?
Wouldn’t it be great to see the dead oj being dragged behind a Bronco to a a suitable burial spot like a landfill!
I wonder why Americans call O.J. a Black if he indeed was a mulatto. Unlike Rodney Kind who was a true Negro. There seems to be a confusion among a perception of race in Americans. The same with many very dark- skinned brownish American “Whites” who would not pass as “White” in Europe (Except perhaps in Portugal/Spain, southern Italy or perhaps Albania or Greece).
Simpson wasn’t a mulatto. He was as Black as Rodney King.
Perhaps but perhaps not. The average American black is about a quarter white. Most of the “pure” blacks have some white in them and most “half” blacks are typically majority white.
I don’t know about O.J. versus Rodney King, but it’s likely that neither was pure African.
Back to the OP, I think the confusion comes from being forced to apply the label “white” or “black” to people who are usually neither. A mule is not a horse or a donkey; it’s a mule. But more precise words are considered archaic and offensive… A guy may be 80% white and 20% black, but he’ll insist on being called black. It’s almost like blacks are the biggest believers in the one drop rule.
In fairness any deviation from a pure white phenotype used to be grounds for denial of social preferment by significant parts of White society, a liability which might in some cases have been surmountable in liberal circles by intense self-cultivation and conformity to White norms. This applied not just to non-Whites and mulattos but to members of the lower classes who were recognisably phenotypically different to their “betters”.
There are too many professional and personal financial reasons at play in the States.
As a black actress, Halle Berry ruled her part of the sandbox with confidence. If she’d insisted on her half-Irish lineage she’d have gotten nowhere.
We’re talking millions here.
That makes me think of the “Amerimutt” meme from years ago.
The majority of American Whites are recognizably European. They may be a mixture of different European types (not completely unknown in Europe), but most Whites here don’t look like “mystery meat” or whatever the Amerimutt concept confused them as.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0ogjcjjR5g
I take offense to the general tenor of these comments. I myself am roughly 40% African by DNA, hence my cc handle, and I regard myself as white. Other white nationalists have always accepted me as a brother. By the Nuremberg protocols I would be counted as white .
I also take offense to the general tenor of my own comments, and everyone else’s as well. And let me assure you that I truly believe that Rachel Dolezal, despite her DNA, is definitely black. She is black because she regards herself as black, and that’s all we need to know. This is America. Your identity is whatever you insist it is. Thank you for setting me straight on this important issue.
Thank you for your sympathy.
Some of my best friends are roughly 40% African by DNA.
In some parts of the US, traditionally, we have the one drop rule. Any black ancestry means you’re black. There was a time when you could insult an enemy by saying he was “passing” as White. Lighter skinned blacks who could “pass” would often move North and try to become part of civilized White society. Several movies have been made with the theme. ‘Show Boat’ is one example. There was another called ‘I Passed for White’. Among many others.
Whenever I hear Blacks talking science, I always think of that old meme with Neil deGrasse Tyson that reads People don’t think the universe be like it is, but it do.
It’s a sad example of the justice system when O.J. gets to walk yet Derek Chauvin gets sent up the river and subsequently stabbed in prison.
Anyone find it interesting US taxpayers fund expensive foreign wars, yet our borders are a joke? Where’s the “Iron Dome” for the US border? It’s almost like there is some agenda…but that’s crazy conspiracy theory talk, right?
Some Blacks thought that O.J. owed the Black community a lot. They thought that after what the Black community had done for him he should knock off the White-friendly act and be militantly Black for the rest of his life.
These Blacks, and maybe many others, were aware that O.J. was a murderer who had gone free due to Black racial politics. They were fine with that.
Many Whites saw the truth but went back to sleep. With no mass media to memorialize White concerns and with no academia to theorize White concerns White concerns just fall into oblivion.
Some Whites stayed awake. Courts and politics that accommodate Black beliefs and Black feelings mean that a Black man can go knife-crazy on a White woman and then walk away from the court smirking.
That’s the price of “multiculturalism”: STAB-STAB-STAB! (Smirk.)
We shouldn’t have to live like this. We mustn’t live like this. In the long run we literally can’t live like this. Racial cohabitation is death for Whites.
I thought that it would wake up lot of whites as well. You are right, a lot of whites went back to sleep.
On April 11, the world experienced a positive population adjustment.
OJ can you see……
I live in north Florida and heard not a whisper of Taylon’s shooting spree. Thank God she was too inept to actually kill anybody. On the other hand when a white boy actually did kill a few black folk at the Dollar General a while back we were forced to talk about it endlessly. All my black coworkers nodding knowingly at each other. Unreal. I may move to Chicago on purpose just to enjoy them killing each other and not have to talk about shit.
My God. This is the first time I’ve heard anything about Rodney King having passengers. I suppose it’s time I be fitted for a dunce cap.
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