Just because YOU are too young to remember, don’t doubt Blake’s popularity. And the words “aged addled and very sad has been” have been used by some on OJ.

Fact is, husbands kill heir wives every day. Just like kids go missing every day. It takes an angle, something extraordinary, to make the particular crime pop. With OJ, it was black ex-superstar kills white wife. The subhead, seen everyone who is black was watching white Amerca bifurcate, with many trying to pretend the race made no difference whatsoever, while others had their minds made up instantly because of his race.

You HONESTLY think that people don’t give Blake sh*t for killing his wife because she was unsympathetic?

The heat came from OJ moving from being the “nice” black guy that white people felt good about, to being the “other.”

The “evidence” that piled up was the blood (a vial of which the lead detectives took from OJ and then visited the crime scene and OJ’s house. And a pair of gloves, one of which was left at the scene of the crime, and the other which was left conveniently at the side of OJ’s house (though he was magically able to make all the bloody clothes disappear, along with the murder weapon. (Jeez, if he’d had tossed it down a sewer drain, or over the fence, but ON HIS OWN PROPERTY–the ONLY link to the crime that would allow the police to enter his home without a warrant?

MY response to my classmates indicated my lack of interest in the crime, relative to the trampling of the Fourth Amendment and the immediate decision so much of white America seemed to make even before the glove was found on his property. My response was indicative of exactly what I said, if OJ was white with his money, he would have gotten reasonable doubt, mush as Blake did.

My disgust now comes from how folks only believe in the system when it gives them the result THEY want. Well, now you can rest happy, he’s going to jail for the rest of his life, for “kidnapping.” You must be so proud.

I believe that the Blake trial was lukewarm mostly because Blake - even at the highest point of his so-called career - never was the extremely popular, talented, charismatic star that OJ was. And Blake now seems to be an aged, addled and very sad has-been. The woman he was accused of killing engendered absolutely no sympathy - a manipulative, blackmailing, cheating, lying, well, you know, who used her baby to try to enrich herself! Neither of them interested the public that much.

But a lot of people of all races liked OJ. Many couldn’t believe he’d done it at first. And then the evidence started piling up. And that’s what the case hinged on - the evidence.

It’s not a matter of racism. It’s a question of believing if the evidence was real or manufactured. I think your response to your classmates that day shows that you believe he did it - but got the so-called “justice” of a rich person who can buy it. If that isn’t equality, I don’t know what is. And the sign of a truly loused up legal system.

Us poor fools who keep insisting that someone’s guilt be proved in a court of law, using rules of evidence and get the conviction of a jury–what a great country you’d have if you could just get rid of us.

And the dementia that allows folks to claim it has nothing to do with race–it’s all about the crime. Don’t recall any stories about Robert Blake being called murderer when he sits down to eat at a restaurant.

Now you’re all salivating at the idea that he could spend the rest of his life in jail for going to a hotel where scuzz were trying to sell stuff stolen from his kids. Except that everyone who’s testifying against him is slimier than he is

Anyone who watched the first trial would be a lot less afraid of OJ as murder wandering the streets than they would be of a police force that can ignore the Fourth Amendment to enter your home; carry a vial of your blood to the scene of the crime and to your home in their pocket during the investigation, before checking it in to the police lab, and then have the nerve to attempt to use blood evidence in the case; and have the nerve on the stand to testify that it’s their belief that they don’t have to worry about what the search warrant says, once they’re in the house, they can pretty much look for anything they want.

I was the only black guy in my IT class on the day of the verdict, and when I arrived that afternoon, everyone was waiting to see what I thought of the decision. My comment: “I am proud to live in a country where a rich black man can afford the same level of justice as a rich white man.”