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From: Jasper
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Category 3: Category 1
Date: 12 Aug 1999
Time: 09:03:45
Remote Name: ncache1.ford.com
Kate,
You cna't believe people are that stupid because you'd have to be pretty stupid yourself to do it. These aren't just "people" Darden was talking about as the spokesperson for the DA's office, they were "black people" and "others" who pricessed information about the case the way most black people did. That's what makes the prosecution argument to exclude the McKinney tapes because of how the n-word would affect the judgment of black people on O.J.'s guilt or innocence a racist argument. The only way it could have had that effect on them was if they had been niggers.
Stay with me on this. It's an essential point that a lot of people who are going to read this have trouble grasping. That is what gives racists like Fuhrman, Clark and Darden the power to get away with what they did and to prosper because of it.
1) As I said before, being a racist has nothing to do with your color or anything else about you that qualifies you in someone's mind as being a member of a race on the high, middle or low range of homo sapien. It has to do with your attitude and behavior toward that GROUP (remember a racist has to allow for exceptions to the rule to explain inevitable conflicts with reality). So, as far as being a racist goes, you are what you think and what you do in regard to matters of race, not what yuu look like or who your parents were.
2) The n-word is not about the word; it's about the images associated with the word (scan the first two chapters of The Random Factor to see how my characters who use the word see themselves and others and how their behavior corresponds to their vision).
3) The idea that black people are, as a group, morally and intellectually inferior to white people is encapsulated in the n-word. That's what a nigger is and why it was OK to own them as slaves. The word nigger comes from a corruption of the Niger River in Africa. It was used interchangable with the s-word -- slave..
4) A white racist (that is a person who thinks like a white racist) sees a black majority of opinion on any issue as inherently inferior to a conflicting white majority of opinion (again, we're talking about "natural" slaves and "natural" masters). Many white people got a bitter taste of "the black experience" for the first time in the O.J. Simpson case when they agreed with "the black jury" that the prosecution had not proven its case against O.J. beyond a reasonable doubt. They were immediately assumed to be incapable of understaning the evidence that proved O.J.'s guilt or being morally incapable of accepting what he did because of who he was. They were treated like niggers.
Wnen you look at Marcia Clark's questioning of Fuhrman about his alibi in the light of these four points you might see something that would otherwise seem absurd. Marcia had more on her mind than launching a pre-emptive srike against defense arguments that a nazi with a German name might have murdered a Jew and a white woman with a German mother and two "black" children to frame the famous, African-American father of those children. Of course she wanted to establish the idea up front that Fuhrman could not have been the killer becasue he was somewhere else "at the time of the murders" (it worked on me). However, through the manuscrupt she got from the publisher of Dove Press, she already knew that the defense was pursuing a strategy based on what Gary Singular said in Legacy of Deception about Fuhrman seeing both bloody gloves on Bundy, picking up one of them with a stick and planting the glove and the stick on Rockingham. That means she knew as far back as August, 1994 that O.J.'s defense team had ruled out Fuhrman as a murder suspect before they had a chance to check out his alibi. His alibi with the defense was the glove, the stick, the evidence of a drug hit and Mark Fuhrman's desire to stay on the case and get a man he truly thought was guilty.
The real power of extablishing Fuhrman's alibi was to make it impossible for anyone to raise the quistion of Fuhrman as a murder suspect without being seen AUTOMATICALLY as motivated by their own racial "obsessions." Yes, I'm saying that Marcia Clark played "the race card." I'm saying that she did it deliberately and that it continues to have the desired effect. --Jasper