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(31,147 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,844 posts)So the picture on the toy seems in bad taste.
peppertree
(21,713 posts)Thanks in advance.
Irish_Dem
(47,844 posts)Blonde white woman murdered.
(O.J. Simpson)
peppertree
(21,713 posts)I myself think it's a stretch - but allusions aside, the image of a white kid and a black kid sitting together must no doubt have irritated all the Chumpkins and RW church ladies who see it.
"I wanna go back to the days where you wouldn't see this kind of thing," I can hear them mutter.
Irish_Dem
(47,844 posts)Seems like a stretch.
Could be racist I agree.
peppertree
(21,713 posts)Thanks again.
questionseverything
(9,666 posts)Walleye
(31,147 posts)questionseverything
(9,666 posts)Walleye
(31,147 posts)brush
(53,972 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,844 posts)TigressDem
(5,125 posts)This looks like (to me) that kids don't develop racist ideas until they get older.
brush
(53,972 posts)also a Black male. It's a long time ago, memory gets fuzzy.
OJ does not in any way come to mind when looking at that graphic of what looks like a Black woman and blonde with head and shoulders poking up thru the sun roof.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)I was working and maybe saw it on break room TV
At home, even back then, I wasn't too much for TV time. Kid had a Nintendo by then and I had stuff to do.
Read the paper for the news. WOW. I feel old.
rsdsharp
(9,234 posts)but I take your point.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)What felt insane was imagining him with her in the Bronco, after he killed her.
NO. Did not happen.
But NOW I see why people are drawing the inference.
Brother Buzz
(36,498 posts)Simpson sat in the back.... alone
Longtime childhood friends. Teammates at Galileo High School, San Francisco City College, USC, Buffalo Bills, and SF 49ers
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Ironically, when he was not convicted, I thought it was a bit of payback for all those times people got jail time for simply being black in the vicinity of a crime.
I was sad for her family and would have preferred a correct verdict, but money had been gaming the system for so long by then, I wasn't surprised.