"If the glove doesn't fit you must acquit."
I used to have a nice pair of leather driving gloves I used for shooting at the range.
Not a chance in hell I could have gotten them on over another pair of latex gloves.
Fuhrman was asked whether he had ever in his life uttered the word "nigger."
Is there anyone above the age of thirty or so in America, of any race, who has not?
The defense had already accused him of planting evidence in a racist plot to frame OJ.
American blacks overwhelming believed that claim, though no evidence at all was ever produced to prove it.
The defense badgered Fuhrman mercilessly and provoked him into lying.
They had him on tape saying "nigger," though not in connection with the OJ case and some time in the past.
They made even some of white America somehow believe that sole fact should be accepted by the jury, even if not by themselves, as making a racist plot to frame OJ likely enough to provide, all by itself, reasonable doubt of his guilt.
The left had suggested a racist frame all along, as I recall.
Of course they did.
However trivial both the question and the lie in a sane world, it was not trivial in that trial.
Fuhrman was later convicted of perjury.
OJ was acquitted.
Has America changed since 1995?
Maybe not so much, except perhaps the liberal racist view is more popular, at least in the general media, as we see in the Ferguson affair.
O.J., Obama, and Race in America
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