Orenthal James “O. J.” Simpson (born July 9, 1947), and nicknamed “The Juice”, is a former National Football League (NFL) running back, broadcaster, actor, advertising spokesman, and still popular figure with the U.S. public.

He is most well known for being the first and one of few Black men to get a fair trial in the history of the United States after being accused, in 1994, of murdering his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.

He was acquitted of both murders after a highly televised trial in which the entire world was watching to see if what Black people had said about the unfairness and racism of the nation’s judicial systems was true.

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SIDE NOTE: Simpson attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he played football for the USC Trojans and won the Heisman Trophy in 1968. He played professionally in the NFL as a running back for 11 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills from 1969 to 1977. He also played for the San Francisco 49ers from 1978 to 1979. In 1973, he became the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season. He holds the record for the single season yards-per-game average, which stands at 143.1. He is the only player to ever rush for over 2,000 yards in the 14-game regular season NFL format. Simpson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. After retiring from football, he began new careers in acting and football broadcasting.

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The families of the victims subsequently filed a civil suit against him, and in 1997 a civil court awarded a $33.5 million judgment against Simpson for the victims’ wrongful deaths.
In 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with the felonies of armed robbery and kidnapping after he was led into a pre-planned crime scenario by whites offended that he had gotten off with the murders that they could never prove he committed.

By 2008, they “got him” for the murder he was exonerated from and the crime they designed to make him pay for it, because ‘white is right’ even if there is no evidence to back it.

Simpleton…er ah Simpson, was THEN convicted and sentenced to 33 years imprisonment, with a minimum of nine years without parole.

He served his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nevada, and was granted parole on July 20, 2017. He was eligible for release from prison on October 1, 2017, and was released shortly after midnight on that date.

Today, we celebrate OJ Simpson rather than Christopher Columbus, a white supremacist and ax murderer, who, with impunity, is guilty of the murders of hundreds of thousands of Black Americans and Indians on plantations and reservations that spanned the course of nearly 380 years and has not ended to this very day and time. Columbus’ crimes are celebrated in America in what has determined to be a warmongering heathen nation filled with self-righteous pretentious whites who believe that a real murderer should be celebrated when an accused murderer who was never proven guilty is dragged through their memories as the only Black man they could not lie on and get away with it.

Not only was he the first and one of only a few Black men to have stood trial for murder of whites and been acquitted because they could find no real evidence, but the ensuing aftermath of that trial was proof positive that the American judicial system was as racist as Black America proclaimed it to be.

Not only would ‘The Juice’ have never gotten a fair trial if he had not been who he was, but just the fact that the investigating officers were caught red-handed planting fabricated evidence at the crime scene was highly indicative of what they had done to Black men on trial in this nation for hundreds of years.

OJ Simpson should be celebrated because he has set the ‘role model’ for how fair the American justice system can be … if you have the money and fame (and white skin in most cases) to pay for it.