My Take: OJ Simpson

It's after 1am and I should be asleep. I was reading a friends blog and replied to it. What should be a paragraph for me usually turns into more than that. I started to post about it today, then decided not to, then ended up writing about it anyway. I'm not going to duplicate his post as I never asked permission and he has his own personal blog, but posted my response and views on the whole OJ 'thing'. Even though you get one side, you can [hopefully] get a gist of my own views and opinions on it. I wanted to air my OJ views on my blog, but it's Monday and 2 lengthy posts I just don't have in me so I'm C&P'ing my own post made somewhere else.

This is a response to a post [in case the way it is written seems choppy to the reader]

I was personally going to post about OJ on my own blog, but decided against it as like you everyone has their own view about him, the race issue, and whether he did it or not.

I for one am very tired of hearing about giving Mr black celebrity a pass or looking as though he came off harder because he's black compared to whites who have done the same.

First and foremost he committed the wrong crime, 12 counts to be exact in the wrong damn state. No he never shot anybody BUT in the state of Nevada alone, OJ or Mr Joe Bloggs would potentially be getting the same sentence based on the crime and what sentence it carries.
"The fifth and sixth convictions were both for "First-degree Kidnapping with a Deadly Weapon." For the two convictions combined, Simpson will receive a sentence of 30 years or life imprisonment."

PLEASE let's not forget he's not even sentenced till December 5th. It's October 6th and so far it's talk and speculation of what he's going to get. Although obvious considering of what he was found guilty for it's sure to be a long one. I for one will not be losing any sleep over it, because if I know the law at 29 then OJ should know the damn law with his old man self. Why do we as a people always have to take it there and fling in the colour issue? Why is it always an injustice with the sentencing? To me once you decide that you want to lose your place in society and break laws then expect whatever to come. I cannot battle for you in your corner and talk of unfairness of the length of your incarceration compared to your white counterparts. That should be enough for black men to think twice, hell three times more, before committing a crime because their time behind bars is going to be longer based on the colour of their skin. if we were discussing teachers holding our children back then that's a different story that's a true injustice. I can't and won't defend folks who have chosen to go that route in life, then stand up talking about "s*** man it's unfair the brotha got more than the white guy for robbing the store"

[edited to add: NO MUTHA EFFER SHOULD BE ROBBING [THE STORE] IN THE FIRST DAMN PLACE! You think after that we have time as a community for 'woe is me' with regard to the perpetrators within our community on a global scale. We have bigger issues that need fixing, educating our children, the rise in HIV and AIDS in our community, the family unit I could go on...Not enough debate, time or awareness is given to such topics].

OJ was a lucky brotha. Trust me a man guilty before proven innocent of a crime 99.9% of the global population thinks he did, even after running from the police with the world watching, 13 years ago got a pass to start over. NOW HOW MANY BLACK MEN GET THAT OPPORTUNITY??

Plain and simple OJ DUN F*** UP!!

Rather than go in there waving God knows what around and now having hefty lawyer fees as well as life in prison to contend with, he should have gone the legal route in the first place to get back what he claimed was rightfully his.

This time around it's not a race issue. It's a stupid dumb criminal who just so happens to be black that got caught, was found guilty and will be put away for it.

You're right OJ is not a man to be proud of in no way shape or form, if he's not a murderer then he sure was a wife beater and an abuser and now a convicted armed robber. Yes we as a people have suffered and continue to suffer injustices through no fault of our own. OJ created his mess and was an injustice unto himself. There's the difference.

And trust me it's not just white people that have a problem with OJ, plenty of blacks do too and wanted him put away. And you know something I don't blame them (white people) nor can be mad at them because as a people we know how to get mad when the police kill one of our own. And when we get mad we get mad, I'm sure if they were Korean it would be the same thing. Or if OJ was white and Nicole and Ron were black, you telling me we wouldn't be mad about it and delighting in it 13 years later that he gets put away for something? Stephen Lawrence in London, I'm sure you remember. If we could get one of those white boys done for something and put away for life there'd be a ton of people happy that they finally got what they deserved to some extent even if not for the original crime. I can't be mad at them because we act the same damn way a lot of the time, and that would make me a hypocrite.

Obama and OJ are not even a fair trade. And educated black man over a dumb one is like trading diamonds for glass chippings.