Monday, September 17, 2007

"Forgiving Society?" In America?

Someone, anyone...tell me where can I find this "forgiving society" that we live in?

O.J. Simpson was arrested today for armed robbery. You might have heard about it. The headlines read something like this: "Convicted Murderer Simpson Robs Innocent People and Kills Them Because He's A Murderer."

I truly don't care about whether or not O.J. robbed anyone. From what I understand, he claims he was just taking back what was his and one of the people who had it doesn't even want to press charges. No word on whether or not he changed his mind because O.J. threatened to come back in his black gloves and Bruno Maglis.

But one would think that was the case, because every time O.J. has been mentioned in print media since 1994, he's referred to as a "murder suspect," or something along those lines. The white media (and white America as a whole) has never gotten past that case. I figure if you can forgive Richard Nixon for forever tarnishing the office of the President, you can mention O.J. Simpson without suggesting that he actually killed his wife.

It doesn't matter if he actually did it, because it was already proven in a court of law that he didn't do it. Get over it, white people. It's been 12 years. It's time to let it go. At the very least, just admit that this "forgiving society" you keep talking about is just a sham. You're never going to let O.J. live his life. Everything O.J. does is wrong to you, because you believe that he should be rotting in jail. Every dime he makes should be going to Ron Goldman's family and if it goes anywhere else besides that, he's evil incarnate. Forget that he's got kids. They don't deserve any of it, because they should have known better than to share DNA with a murderer.

Even when his book deal fell through, he was criticized for even being involved in the writing of the book. "If I Did It" was loudly condemned by everyone and it hadn't even been released. The Goldman Family attacked what was left of Simpson's good name in the press, claiming that he was admitted what he did and profiting off of it. They said that he was a despicable human being for trying to profit off of the lives of two young, vibrant, white human beings.

Then, a funny thing happened: The rights to that book were turned over to the Goldman family and they released it! Right now, it's the #1 ranked book on Amazon and no one has a single word about how they're profiting from their son's death, which is exactly what they had been doing since the civil trial ended in 1997. They've been bleeding O.J. Simpson dry in the name of justice. And White America has been okay with it.

No one has had anything to say about the Goldmans releasing and profiting off of the same book that O.J. was a terrible human being for writing. Well, I have something to say: Fuck the Goldman family.

I'm sorry that your son is forever lost to you, but that doesn't give you the right to be hypocrites. You people have been about the money since day one, and if you weren't, you would have never brought a civil case against O.J. Simpson. The fact that he was acquitted was never good enough for you, so you had to try to break him and you did. He was forced to give up his money, his trophies, his memorabilia, all to satisfy you. And even that wasn't enough. You criticized him for writing a book, gave him no credit for backing out of the deal, then published the book yourselves and criticized him for your ability to profit off that same book. Most of the proceeds from that book were going to his kids (and his debts), but now that you've got it, all of the money is going in your pockets. You claim that he's starving for the spotlight, but you love it when he's in it, because you're the ones who always benefit. Financially, that is.

America, the Goldmans are the ones you should be attacking in the press. Whether or not you believe O.J. killed his ex-wife and her boyfriend is irrelevant, because you can't prove anything. And whether or not he gets convicted for armed robbery has nothing to do with whether or not he killed anybody. Should he get off from this, you'll never let him live that down, either. You've got a huge problem with letting people move on from crimes that they weren't even convicted for, so I wonder who you're trying to fool with this "forgiving society" crap.

I'll bet O.J. Simpson isn't believing a word of it.

2 comments:

Matt said...

If you think O.J. Simpson's acquittal should free him from being labeled a former murder suspect, shouldn't the Goldmans' legal right to seek recompense be similarly free of judgment?

I'm not saying you're wrong, but if you were the Goldmans and you honestly thought O.J. killed a family member, wouldn't you want him punished? I would definitely seek justice whether it was through a criminal or civil case, and as far as I can tell that's exactly what happened.

Although truth be told, I haven't thought or cared much about O.J. since his original trial. I still don't.

P.S. I'm just playing devil's advocate because you brought up an interesting argument.

Thad Ochocinco said...

The Goldmans certainly have a right to go after O.J. Of course, I just view them as being money-grubbing. I don't see how taking his money is going to solve anything. He's still walking the streets. If my family member was murdered, I would want the killer locked up, not still walking the streets with significantly less money.

I also just don't like how they got a free pass on that book deal.

Thanks for the comment. And I can certainly appreciate playing Devil's Advocate, because i do it all the time, mostly to watch people's heads explode.