great thread
and like some of the others, i have to add on as someone who lived through it and remember it like it was yesterday.
i was in college at the time (Howard University) and from the moment this started to its conclusion it was riveting to say the least.
No one can forget where they were when that white Bronco was speeding down the highway. I was at my peeps house we were watching the NBA Finals, and they
INTERRUPTED THE NBA FINALS to show this madness
. LIke a breh said earlier, it started as the Picture in Picture tiny box on screen, then became the main box putting the finals in the small box. Unheard of. Back then I was ready for OJ to just blow his brains out in the car so they could get back to the game
but yeah, I remember at the time believing he did not do it, and no amount of so called "evidence" could convince me otherwise, and once crooKKKed azz Furman got exposed for what he was.
I had even entertained if he did do it, I didn't even care anyways cuz cacs got away with shyt all the time, and this was the key part which was important that the show started this way: Rodney King and the LA Riots were still fresh in our minds. So what if he off'd these two cacs, whats the big deal
can never forget when the verdict was read i was in my apartment with my homegirl (who i eventually married, crazy) and we were JUMPING UP AND DOWN so excited that he walked..then I remember NBC and Tom Brokaw on national TV showing students from Howard University in some class or building all jubilantly celebrating the verdict...and either before showing HU or after, he showed some cacs somewhere reacting to the verdict and you'd have thought they were all sentenced to death, because they took it so hard. I said to myself, man they are gonna be making us pay for this for the rest of our lives aren't the?