small incident escalating into something horrible. think of the way black people and white people responded when they first got the news flash of the o.j. simpson verdict. personally, i was stunned. i thought two hours of deliberation meant that the jury found him guilty. how could they not, i thought, with all the blood over the place? all the trying to escape in the white bronco with the passport to the skies? why would a beloved celebrity go racing for the border when his wife is killed? i wasn t ready for the strong outpouring of anger over the michael brown tragedy i certainly was for the eric garner killing. i saw in that video all they needed to see, that there needed to be more than a grand jury, there needed to be the real one, the kind you get after there s a trial. so as we, white and black, continue along this line of tragedy and race relations, i believe the whites among us will learn not just from their own reaction of horrible events but from the other communities
something horrible. think of the way black people and white people responded when they first got the news flash of the o.j. simpson verdict. personally, i was stunned. i thought two hours of deliberation meant that the jury found him guilty. how could they not, i thought, with all the blood over the place? all the trying to escape in the white bronco with the passport to the skies? why would a beloved celebrity go ri racing for the border when his wife is killed? i wasn t ready for the strong outpouring of anger over the michael brown tragedy i certainly was for the eric garner killing. i saw in that video all they needed to see, that there needed to be more than a grand jury, there needed to be the real one, the kind you get after there s a trial. so as we, white and black, continue along this line of tragedy and race relations, i believe the whites among us will learn not just from their own reaction of horrible events but from the other communities reaction. when we ask how things a
so the fact that they are 20 hours in, it s even longer than the george zimmerman case deliberations, which was only about 16 hours. it s much longer than the o.j. simpson verdict, which came in under four hours. and so i think that this jury is really struggling. they are probably hung on one or many counts and that tells me they will come back in, explain to the judge that they are hung and what the judge does in a case like this provides an alan charge. it s like a pep talk and tells me i know you have been working hard but please try to exchange ideas, do the best you can to reach a consensus. i think that perhaps is what we re going to hear today. typically the judge lets them deliberate until about 6:00. we re getting close to 6:00. they have started at 9:00 today. and i think there s some trouble in the jury room. i think they may be hung, don. very interesting. sunny, standby. we re going to be going back to
nightmare, we ll see a lot of it. as i wrote, it was just about gone, and the liberals needed to start to play it again to promote the most left wing the country has ever seen, barack obama. there has been an explosion. if you had a graph of racism sightings, it was through the roof until the o.j. simpson verdict. and going after jesse jackson, repeatedly. it was like a subway token that didn t open the gate anymore. and when obama came back, wow, it just exploded. unfortunately, for liberals, there is no racism. there is more cholera than racism. you know what? america elected a black president twice. an incompetent black president. that is how much they want to
up. he s calling for rallies in which he will be the centerpiece of them. they are not about trayvon or the parent or justice. they are:al sharpton and that s unfortunate. even those calling for toy cots, people ought to boycott florida, stevie wonder has called for that. the foolishness of all that is the state of florida prosecuted george zimmerman. they did what they reasonably could do. it was a jury within the system that decided he wasn t guilty as charged. we don t always like the verdicts. a lot of people didn t like the o.j. simpson verdict. there was a blackman allegedly killed two people but i don t remember al sharpton was outraged and called it a race crime. it was a horrible tragedy. a young man died who shouldn t have died. that s something we won t be able to bring back.