become a joke in some regards that he got off easy, because a lot of people believed hem to be guilty, but this is an interesting nugget. according to a new cnn poll, a majority of african-american respondents now today believe that the charges against o.j. were not true. what do you say to that, jim? well, i mean, look, you saw this case go down on racial lines, no question about it. the issue of race was introduced by the defense and allowed in by judge lance ito. i didn t really view this as a race case based on the facts, but that was irrelevant, because it was established as a race case. the defense effectively made mark fuhrman as the villains, the rogue cop. that s all that mattered. even 20 years later, people are still passionate about their views.