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    wellheytherepartnerRich Juzwiak
    2/03/16 12:55pm

    Courtney B Vance, the actor playing Cochran, was on NPR yesterday essentially indicating that OJ’s acquittal was comeuppance for Emmett Till. Never have I shouted so loud at my car radio before.

    Twenty years ago, when the O.J. Simpson verdict was delivered, actor Courtney B. Vance says he celebrated — but he wasn’t exactly cheering for the former NFL player.

    “I cheered for Emmett Till,” — the African-American teenager lynched in Mississippi in 1955 — he says. “I cheered for all the strange fruit that hung on the trees for three centuries.”

    For a long time, he says, black people had nowhere to go for justice. And that’s why he cheered for Simpson’s lawyer, Johnnie Cochran. “Finally, on the biggest stage, a black man worked the system and got another black man off.”

    http://www.npr.org/2016/02/02/465…

    Flush the world already.

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      Flow Beewellheytherepartner
      2/03/16 1:21pm

      21 years later and you still don’t get it, I guess.

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      wellheytherepartnerFlow Bee
      2/03/16 1:50pm

      Yeah, I get it. Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman killed Emmett Till. I should have seen it all along; this was a great justice.

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    Hip Brooklyn StereotypeRich Juzwiak
    2/03/16 12:52pm

    I haven’t watched, but I totally agree in that some of the casting here really leaves me scratching my head.

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      MBCockHip Brooklyn Stereotype
      2/03/16 12:56pm

      Sort of ironic that the banner ad above this is for “Madoff.”

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      Hip Brooklyn StereotypeMBCock
      2/03/16 12:57pm

      I was going to say!

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    GameOfHousewivesRich Juzwiak
    2/03/16 12:57pm

    I feel like an idiot for finally, truly getting this joke.

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      XrdsAlumGameOfHousewives
      2/03/16 2:36pm

      If nothing that came before had sold me on "Kimmy Schmidt," these two alone would have had me recommending it. Can't wait for the next season.

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    rewodRich Juzwiak
    2/03/16 12:56pm

    FX really can’t lose with this one...It’ll either be good television, which would be great, or it’ll be awful, which would be even better.

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      Tumsrewod
      2/03/16 2:56pm

      Exactly! This show could be great or awful, regardless it will entertain.

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    Taint NuttinRich Juzwiak
    2/03/16 12:59pm

    Man, I was not happy to have the night-job last night off this. That cast tho... and I just watched Showgirls for the first time the other night, so my standards will not be high for the next thousand years or so. No way this disappoints.

    Speaking of the night-job... the Super Bowl sucks! Deadest night we’ve had in awhile last night, word is everywhere in town that wasn’t booked for bougie shit a year ago has been slow as hell. Even heard it called “the worst weekend in memory” for the clubs in town.

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      dothedewRich Juzwiak
      2/03/16 12:58pm

      The timing of this does not bode well for Dr. Carson’s campaign. Given how many people - dozens? - must have seen Cuba Gooding Jr’s award winning performance the Gifted Hands movie on the PAX network or in church, I can only assume there will now be a raft of people thinking Carson is Simpson.

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        Max CherryRich Juzwiak
        2/04/16 6:29am

        So far Kato Kaelin’s stealing the show. “I’m not an official person”. Hahaha!!!

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          ADX321Max Cherry
          2/04/16 9:03am

          lol when Kato was the first to grab a burger and OJ just looks at him - we all have friends like that.

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        TumsRich Juzwiak
        2/03/16 2:52pm

        Who would have thought Juice was such a whiny baby. It looks like that won’t change the rest of the series.

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          banchoviRich Juzwiak
          2/03/16 1:10pm

          Based on the delivery of his lines, someone must have told CGJr. that this was a James Brown biopic.

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            trlergrlRich Juzwiak
            2/03/16 1:17pm

            I watched every second of this trial when I was 18. The only thing I questioned is how they started it off with Rodney King...mostly because it somewhat off the bat equates this trial to what is currently going on with the police and the African American community, and I think that’s misleading. At first, this was not about a black man being on trial. It was about a super famous, popular, handsome, charming, extremely rich, movie star, professional athlete being on trial for something that no one believed (at first) he was capable of. There was no internet, no one knew he had been beating Nicole...no one knew she had called the cops on him multiple times and they let him go. (Even asked for autographs.) I don’t even think anyone knew he was actually even charged with anything regarding any domestic violence except people close to him. Johnny Cochran turned it into a racial thing, and it exploded from there.

            I remember sitting at work, everyone gathered around the TV just knowing he was going to be convicted. Everyone thought so....even with all the Mark Ferman crap....the man has SO MUCH evidence against him.....when they said not-guilty everyone yelled. Couldn’t believe it. It’s all anyone talked about for weeks afterwards. It’s so hard to put it all into context now, because we have so much immediate information about celebrities, and we aren’t as dazzled by them as much anymore. But this was just an incredible event. I’m so interested in seeing this whole series through.

            OH and that guy has totally NAILED Kato. lol

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              MittCain's Revengetrlergrl
              2/03/16 2:11pm

              Very interesting perspective. From my side of the tracks, this was absolutely about a black man being on trial (for killing a white woman). His celebrity and fame spoke to two ideas: 1. “The Man” bringing down a famous and accomplished black sports hero; and 2. A black hero who married a white woman and lived an entirely separate life than the average black man getting his comeuppance for thinking he was better/different. Both of these conflicting ideas were present on my side of the tracks.

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              trlergrlMittCain's Revenge
              2/03/16 2:21pm

              It’s really interesting to hear your side as well. When he was first arrested I truly didn’t see it at all as a racial thing. I felt like the cops did everything they could to help him out, and then, once the actual trial started was when the racial issues were brought up. I really like hearing other’s opinions and feelings on this....it’s not like it is today where you can hear many different perspectives and opinions....sheesh I can’t even imagine what that trial would have been like today!

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