1.0 link 56072 <![CDATA[The O.J. Simpson Card]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/the-oj-simpson-card_b_56072.html The moment the mostly black jury acquitted O.J. Simpson in 1996 a leading Simpson trial commentator pithily quipped that blacks would catch heck for that verdict. He didn't spell out exactly how they'd pay for the acquittal, but the point was that the Simpson verdict so enraged police, prosecutors, judges and many whites that they would throw the book at any black that wound up in a court docket. The quip seemed like over the top, hyperbole at the time.

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