In my Oct. 11 editorial, I touched on the injustices that African-Americans have been enduring.
I’m mentioning it again, because something needs to happen. OJ Simpson has been charged with kidnapping. How absurd is that? Kidnapping, according to Findlaw.com, is defined as the taking of a person from one place to another against his or her will or the confining of a person to a controlled space.
Okay, maybe there was a gun and maybe he told them not to move, but is that really confining someone to a controlled space? I guess the guy realized that OJ is an acquitted killer, and he will do it again if he has to.
So he listened to OJ’s orders.
However, DAs in the criminal justice system are taking crimes too personally. They are charging people with every crime they can possibly charge them with, just because they don’t like a certain person or the type of crime he or she is being charged with committing.
In Simpson’s case, people have been treating him as if he were convicted of murdering his wife and Ronald Goldman in 1995. The last time I checked, he was acquitted. Since then, he has been the fish at the end of the fishing line many times.
Earlier this year, Simpson was asked to leave Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse because the owner Jeff Ruby said, “I didn’t want to serve him because of my convictions of what he’s done to those families.”
And after the 1995 trial, his Alma Mata, the University of Southern California, asked him not to be a part of anything at the college.
These are situations that have no place in society. Times like these should have been long behind us, but it seems like discrimination will be a part of the American way forever.
Discrimination has been one of the biggest problems this country has had to deal with for a long time. When are we going to put an end to this horrible practice?
I know when. It will be when this country is divided and people commit heinous acts against other races for no justifiable reason whatsoever.
By
Nick Davis