CNN political commentator Ashley Allison said Friday on CNN’s “News Central” that O.J. He was representing something.”
“Last night I posted on social media about the conversations we had when the verdict came out in 1995, about our home, and what happened last night when we found out O.J. was dead,” Allison said. . My premise is that it’s still rooted in race. The question is why the case was prosecuted so much, and I also got to sit in on the verdict when I was in the 8th grade and saw it happen. I was happy. I don’t think I had any concept of who was guilty and who was innocent. I was a child. In the end, perhaps we shouldn’t have seen the incident where two people were killed. ”
She continued, “This incident is very racially charged, not only because of what happened immediately before with Rodney King, but also because of how black Americans feel about police.” It’s not that O.J. Simpson was a civil rights leader at the time, you know, he wasn’t a social justice leader, but in that moment in that trial, especially when white people He was representing something for the black community because there were people who were killed and the history of how black people were persecuted under slavery. There were so many layers.”
she added. “As much as I would love to be done with this, there are racial tensions and there are still racial tensions. That may not be the background of the Trump campaign, but it’s true that this country is actually racially charged. “Until we’re ready to have honest conversations about the issues,” from our origin stories to today, we’re always going to have moments like OJ Simpson, and we’re going to need to actually address racial issues. If we do, our country will always be divided. ”
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