All charges being dropped

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Brian,
As much as you may want to ignore the simple truth, this WAS about race! It involved a poor black woman and wealthy (at least as reported, I don't know how wealthy their families are) white college boys. You can't ignore the past when wealthy white "boys" used black women any way they wanted...obviously race was front and center here! Why on earth would you expect black leaders not to be involved??? I agree 100% that these boys were victims...but not of Jesse Jackson, they were victims of a corrupt DA. The DA played the "race card" and he should suffer the consequences but to expect black leaders to remain silent in the face of this is ridiculous! They demanded justice...and, this time at least, justice is being served! Had this all been "swept under the rug", the DA would have probably hung these poor kids on manufactured "evidence" ...exactly the way black men and women were railroaded for countless years...that's the irony here!!

So this case and OJ's acquittal are retribution for countless years of injustice??? It figures!