CNN introduced some controversial protection of the loss of life of former NFL participant OJ Simpson, on a number of events struggling to convey why folks have been completely happy he was acquitted within the double homicide of his spouse Nicole Brown Simpson, and her good friend Ron Goldman.
Correspondent Stephanie Elam was first out of the blocks together with her evaluation Thursday afternoon.
Elam, a local weather change analyst for the community, appeared to indicate folks have been thrilled to see that OJ, as a black superstar, may get away with homicide.
“It’s additionally simply value noting how a lot was impacted by this trial, Jake, as so many issues occurred. We noticed policing altering right here within the metropolis,” she started.
“And it’s additionally value noting due to that unrest, that racial unrest within the 90s, that’s the reason so many individuals who could not have been invested in OJ Simpson have been simply completely happy to see that somebody who was wealthy and well-known and black, may get away with …” Elam continued, stumbling for a second, “… what different folks did within the system as effectively too.”
JUST IN—CNN’s Stephanie Elam reporting on OJ Simpson’s loss of life unintentionally stated the quiet half out loud:
“So many individuals have been simply completely happy to see that somebody who’s wealthy and well-known, and black, may get away with… er … what different folks did within the system as effectively, too.” pic.twitter.com/7j4zPCUlo5
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 11, 2024
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CNN Analyst – OJ Simpson Helped Proper The Wrongs Of Slavery By Killing White Folks
With Friday, got here a brand new day. A recent begin for CNN of their protection of OJ Simpson. But it surely didn’t get significantly better. In actual fact, commentator Ashley Allison made issues worse together with her evaluation.
Allison asserts that whereas OJ was clearly not a social justice warrior, he did symbolize the black group. Why? As a result of his victims have been white.
“I cheered, I used to be completely happy. I don’t assume I had an idea of like who was responsible and who was not,” she stated noting she was solely within the eighth grade on the time OJ bought off.
“It was so racially charged due to what had occurred simply earlier than with Rodney King, but in addition simply how black People really feel about policing.”
“It’s not like O.J. Simpson was the chief of the civil rights motion in his period. You realize, he wasn’t a social justice chief,” Allison explains.
“However he represented one thing for the black group in that second in that trial, significantly as a result of there have been two white individuals who had been killed,” she states. “And the historical past round how black folks had been persecuted throughout slavery. There have been simply so many layers.”
WTF: CNN Contributor suggests black folks recognized with OJ as a result of he okay*lled white folks.
“[OJ] represented one thing for the black group in that second, in that trial, significantly as a result of there have been two white individuals who had been okay*lled.”
These remarks are insane.… pic.twitter.com/zJHNDJ0I7t
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 12, 2024
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OJ Simpson, 76, died at his dwelling in Las Vegas, Nevada Thursday after battling prostate most cancers. CNN failed miserably in making an attempt to convey why his acquittal for the violent homicide of his spouse and her good friend was celebrated by some.
Or perhaps they succeeded. There actually was a big contingent of people that have been completely happy to see him ‘get away with … no matter’.
And an equally giant contingent who needed him to get away with it as a result of it might be a victory over the police, victims be damned as a result of they have been white.
Marc Lamont Hill, a former CNN contributor fired for his previous excessive feedback, additionally raised eyebrows along with his tackle the OJ Simpson case.
“O.J. Simpson was an abusive liar who deserted his group lengthy earlier than he killed two folks in chilly blood. His acquittal for homicide was the right and mandatory results of a racist legal authorized system,” he wrote on X.
“However he’s nonetheless a monster, not a martyr.”
Allison and Elam appear to disagree.
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