Racism and the O.J. Simpson Trial

Do serial killers become more of a threat to society if they are African Americans? Is a murder less vicious if it was done by a White person? Do you think that Orenthal James Simpson would have been accused of a lesser crime if he was White? Today’s society is not one that is racially balanced, but I feel fairly confident that murder is still murder no matter whom it is performed by. I …

…running back, except that his terribly violent side had been revealed to the criticizing public eye. If the parents of John Benet Ramses had been indicted for the murder of their daughter, no less amount of media attention would have been given to them. At one time racism was the definition of conviction, except the pendulum of racism has swung closer to the middle and this was the case for the O.J. Simpson trial.