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J LevineI said I was going to stay away from this since I was flamed on my email for nonsense but I need to get a few things off my chest.
First off many people come on here and express their opinions about many things. I have zero problem with that as long as it is thought out and intelligent and not an attack.
Dave...just because someone is found innocent in a court of law does not make that person automatically innocent. The people who still call OJ a murderer are entitled to believe that he is a murderer. It is their belief. True or not. That is their belief. For you to tell them that they are racist because of this is flat wrong. On the flip side, many people believe OJ is innocent. The only person who knows for sure is OJ.
OJ was tried by a jury of his peers. Do you really believe that his peers are poor black men from the South? That is what you imply when you talk about the injustice of Evers.
Dave, I do not know you at all but I hope you are doing more than just whining on a baseball chat board. I belong to several organizations including the Southern Poverty Law Center (a civil rights organization that champions civil rights, equal rights, tolerance, and diversity). I am the Diversity Chairperson in my district and I fight very hard for the rights of minorities in my district (we are a district that is now 90% white, affluent, christian), special education students, and others. I give money to every year to the SPLC, the Weisenthal Center, and others. Dave, I am curious when you call me and others a racist how much you are doing to change the world around you. I know Jeff, Adam, and others here who you have called out as racist by lumping all of us together do far more for the American ideal of equality for all than I do.
Are you someone who stands by the side of the road watching a black man being lynched and screams "look, that is racist!" or are you the person who actively stops or prevents these events?
Joshua