Marc Lamont Hill, a professor of city training on the CUNY Graduate Heart in New York Metropolis, responded to the dying of OJ Simpson by saying his acquittal within the double homicide of his spouse Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman was a “vital” consequence.
Simpson, 76, died at his house in Las Vegas, Nevada Thursday after battling prostate most cancers.
The previous working again for the Buffalo Payments is greatest identified for having been acquitted for the aforementioned murders. Hill although, had an fascinating take following his dying.
“O.J. Simpson was an abusive liar who deserted his neighborhood lengthy earlier than he killed two individuals in chilly blood. His acquittal for homicide was the right and vital results of a racist felony authorized system,” he wrote on X.
“However he’s nonetheless a monster, not a martyr.”
Marc Lamont Hill Suggests OJ Simpson Acquittal Was Proper As a result of He Was Black
Marc Lamont Hill, a former CNN and Fox Information contributor, was known as out for his tackle the OJ Simpson case.
It’s troublesome to not conclude this tackle these remarks: OJ wasn’t actually black, however he deserved to get away with homicide as a result of he was black.
“Saying he left the black neighborhood and admitting he’s a assassin, however believing he nonetheless deserves black felony immunity is wild,” one follower on X responded.
Hill although, denies that was his opinion, regardless of clearly stating the Simpson case was a “appropriate and vital results of a racist felony authorized system.”
“I by no means stated that,” he replied to the critic. “The witness was caught mendacity. That raises authorized doubt. That’s why the decision was correct. No matter race, the system must be truthful.”
However that isn’t what he initially stated.
Detective Mark Fuhrman was caught mendacity on the witness stand about utilizing racial slurs. Moreover, he pleaded the fifth Modification every time the protection requested him about planting proof.
However many, many individuals surmise the jury acquitted Simpson due to his race, a response to the police beating of Rodney King years earlier.
Nonetheless, simply as Hill admits, the precise proof was plentiful in pointing to Simpson’s guilt within the case.
“He killed two individuals in chilly blood.”
And, in truth, in a subsequent civil trial in 1997, Simpson was discovered accountable for the wrongful deaths of Nicole Brown and Goldman. He was ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages to the victims’ households.
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Fired From CNN
Marc Lamont Hill made information earlier this yr when he demanded that Harvard’s President be chosen solely on race and gender.
“The subsequent president of Harvard College MUST be a Black lady,” Hill insisted in a submit on X.
He was responding to information that Claudine Homosexual, the earlier president of Harvard, was compelled to resign from her submit. Homosexual’s destiny adopted controversy about alleged plagiarism and accusations of enabling antisemitism on campus.
CNN famously fired Hill after he known as for the destruction of Israel and inciting violence towards Jews in entrance of a United Nations panel in 2018.
And right here it’s, Marc Lamont Hill calling for a “free Palestine from the river to the ocean” (video by way of @bennyavni) pic.twitter.com/E7ugrByKyf
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) November 28, 2018
Hill defended the usage of terrorism and violence by the Palestinian resistance in 2018.
“We should acknowledge the proper of an occupied individuals to defend itself,” he stated.
“We should prioritize peace, however we should not romanticize or fetishize it,” he added, concluding that “justice requires … a free Palestine from the river to the ocean.”
The phrase, “from the river to the ocean,” has been utilized by the terrorist group Hamas. It’s extensively considered a mantra calling for the destruction of Israel.
