upper eastside. again, i m this 23-year-old, 24-year-old young woman. wow. it was not lost on me in that moment. i was having a very visceral reaction not unlike many african-americans at the time but there were no african-americans aroundmy. that was not lost on me. i remember i needed to clip my sentiment and my feelings at the time. mark? i was a senior in high school and they allowed oh, boy. don t hate, don. obviously the baby of the group, don. exactly. don t be mad. i was a senior in high school. everybody in the high school stopped to watch the verdict. that s how important it was. school stopped. most of my high school was black. the moment they announced the verdict, you would have thought philadelphia had won an nba championship or something, everybody started cheering and clapping and hugging and only people who weren t happy for the teachers. most the teachers were white. they were not only visibly angry but they were saying i can t
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prosecuting o.j. didn t understand these racial dynamics when they waded into the case and they were waylaid by it, laid flat by it because they weren t aware of what they were stepping into and they didn t understand the history of black folks friction with the lapd and and mark i m sorry, we lost eric. mark, we re still seeing that play out today especially stories that concern race in this country and policing. oh, absolutely. that s why i would say it s not so much the o.j. simpson trial shaped perception, they reflected the perceptions. a long history of our relationships to laurmtw enforcement, criminal justice, et cetera. that s what you see right know after a ferguson, after a george zimmerman trial, dan wilson trial, the same people who had a problem with o.j. have a problem with mike brown or trayvon martin. at the end of the day, we have different sets of experiences. that s why people were celebrating, many black people were celebrating the o.j. simpson verdict, no
believe he got away with murder. they looked stunned. we looked happy. it reflects the divide. eric? thanks for making me feel so old, mark. basically, i was music critic for the asbury park press in new jersey so i was in a newsroom when it happened and i remember the tension, white people didn t know what to say to me. when it happened. i remember being a little insulted that people assumed that i was glad that he had been acquitted. when i thought he was guilty. and was disappointed that he d been acquitted. i got to and the assumptions that people were making about how people felt about this based on their color was one of the things that really bothrderered i got to tell you, eric, same thing, i worked for the local fok fox station in new york. the black folks looking at the white people, there are people crying, we didn t do it, we didn t know what was happening. it was an uncomfortable