An overnight Gallup Poll released this morning shows that 48% of Americans disagree with the verdicts clearing pop star Michael Jackson of all charges in the molesting case and only 34% agree -- along a “major racial divide,” Gallup said.Whites disagree by about 2-1 (54% to 28%) while nonwhites take the exact opposite view by 2-1 (56% to 26%).
This recalls the O.J. Simpson verdict in 1995, when whites disagreed with him getting off by 62% to 27% while nonwhites supported it by 67% to 24%.
One thing you'll notice a lot of the times with cases like this. Blacks think that other blacks can often times do no wrong. Black Americans supported OJ Simpson (a man who was so clearly guilty of a double murder) and whites had the common sense to look at the evidence and see that he was in fact guilty (despite the criminal verdict)...and now with Jackson, you put all the evidence together, you see the patterns, you see the interviews of Jackson saying he, as a 40 yr old man, still loves to share his bed with children, etc. You see all of it and white Americans say- this guy is guilty. Blacks say the opposite.
I don't get it. You didn't see white Americans support Scott Petersen and blacks oppose him. You don't see that sort of thing with any other case like this...so, it doesn't make any reasonable sense that because OJ and Jackson were black that most blacks rush to their side to defende them. It all leads you to the conclusion that- sadly, if this poll is accurate, most black Americans are obviously still obsessed with race to some significant degree. Maybe scum like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson haven't been complete failures afterall?
Good Lord. Would you please try to put yourself in the position of a black person for one goddamn second? I happen to think Jackson is guilty, but the way you describe race relations...you just have no insight at all. None. Show this post to a black person and ask their opinion of it. Please, do me that favor.
ok im the shoes of a black american. nope...sorry, i dont support someone JUST because they have the same skin color.
now, im back to being me (white)...golly, i dont support people on trial who look really guilty just because they have the same skin color.
so, theres a big gap in who buys into the innocence or guilt...and its divided by race. you see this sort of thing often with black americans. you dont see it with whites (scott peterson as i mentioned- you didnt see whites rush to support scotty boy because he had the same color of skin).
ive no insight tho. all blacks (as you imply) are of course going to rush to defend another black JUST because that person is black. so, from youre implication, since this is common sense that blacks americans would do this (duh, put yourself in their shoes!), and overall most people see from the pattern of behavior, jacksons comments, interviews, past experience, new and old evidence, etc- we can deduce that blacks have no common sense.
i dont personally agree with that statement...i think its outrageous that anyone of ANY skin color would support and defend someone merely due to the fact that their skin color is the same.
Josh...it's more than skin color, man. It's history, struggle, perception, the media, and a million other things. It's so much more complicated than you think it is. Oh well. There will always be ignorance.
a racial divide comes up...put yourself in the shoes of blacks and youd understand why they rush to support others simply because they have the same skin color. but, its about more than skin color.
its much more complicated than skin color- blacks support other blacks merely because theyre black for numerous reasons.
yeah...got ya then!
Okay, I'll admit it. People who share an African-American heritage do happen to have the same color skin. The only thing African-Americans have in common is skin color, not heritage, struggle, or knowing what it feels like to have Duane Reade owners follow you around the store. Touche, Josh.
By the way, Michelle Malkin seems to think differently than you do about racial divides in this country. Read her blog stuff about the Holloway case. How the media, for whatever reason, prefers white missing children.
all "african-americans" (ill use that term since you used it, tho its an offensive, factually inaccurate term to begin with- not all people with darker skin come from or ever came from africa) are oppressed in America (at least thats what i take from your comments). they share the same 'struggle' and 'history' you say as well. all blacks are victims of racism as well, i assume? of course in the US thats nowhere near the case (racism in 2005 is no longer a top issue for anyone), and most racism as i, and many others (mainly black men like the rev jesse lee petersen and pundits/talk show hosts like larry elder) see it comes from blacks toward white americans (proof enough for this is that black supremacists like jesse jackson and al sharpton get respect in this nation, yet no white supremacists get any- and rightfully so).
and who cares what michelle malkin says? i didnt know i had to agree with her whenever she spoke. as for missing women- we live in a nation of 300 million people, 210 million of those people are white...so of course the media caters to the large majority. and since this nation has a huge white majority, it would make sense that the "all american girl" type would be white, young, and attractive. so, i think that malkin is neglecting to take any of that into acct.
Are you really ready to equate 'black supremacists' like Jesse Jackson (or, say, the NAACP) with white supremacist groups like the KKK? I tend to think that even staunch conservatives would disagree.
You're missing the bigger point here. Firstly, the entire jury that let him off was white. And the so-called 'race card' was never played by Jackson's lawyer. So there's obviously enough evidence here to reasonably conclude Jackson's innocence, just as there is a lot of evidence that says he's guilty, race never entering the picture. I don't find it surprising that African-Americans are more inclined to think 'innocent,'when the evidence is so ambiguous, as it is hard to deny the picture Americans have of the 'dark-skinned criminal' embedded in their heads.
So that's so say this: Race wasn't an issue in Jackson's prosecution or trial, but it does become an issue for those who believe him innocent. I'll say it again: a jury of eleven whites and one Asian found him innocent. That black people side with the law and the jury more than whites do, well, who are you to judge that?
I think your entire argument is based on the assumption that racism against blacks doesn't exist anymore. And if you really believe that, then we're just going to have to agree to disagree.