21st May
Long day at work today. A handful of silly mistakes that I shouldn't have made. In all areas of one's life, perhaps mistakes are unavoidable but it doesn't make me feel any better when they occur. Still, onwards and upwards and all that.
I've quickly got through the remaining chapters of "OJ: Made In America" this week. Ezra Edelman's documentary is a superb piece of work that should be viewed in its entirety but I admit that the final two episodes have stayed with me the most, where the hasty final judgement and motivations of the jurors are placed under scrutiny. I appreciate that the African-Americans on the OJ jury saw the trial as an opportunity to get retribution for the Rodney King verdicts and the countless injustices they had suffered in the past. I'm not in a position to say whether that was right or wrong. But I'm sure at this point that most people agree that his exoneration was a travesty of justice.
As with "The People v OJ Simpson", I had a great deal of sympathy with prosecutor Marcia Clark and couldn't begrudge her evident delight when Simpson was sent down for kidnapping and armed robbery some time later. I haven't done this justice at all when I've written about it but for a thorough examination of the story in its full racial, historical and cultural context, this is where you need to go.
I've quickly got through the remaining chapters of "OJ: Made In America" this week. Ezra Edelman's documentary is a superb piece of work that should be viewed in its entirety but I admit that the final two episodes have stayed with me the most, where the hasty final judgement and motivations of the jurors are placed under scrutiny. I appreciate that the African-Americans on the OJ jury saw the trial as an opportunity to get retribution for the Rodney King verdicts and the countless injustices they had suffered in the past. I'm not in a position to say whether that was right or wrong. But I'm sure at this point that most people agree that his exoneration was a travesty of justice.
As with "The People v OJ Simpson", I had a great deal of sympathy with prosecutor Marcia Clark and couldn't begrudge her evident delight when Simpson was sent down for kidnapping and armed robbery some time later. I haven't done this justice at all when I've written about it but for a thorough examination of the story in its full racial, historical and cultural context, this is where you need to go.
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