Even in his passing the Simpson verdict remains polarizing

Orenthal James Simpson passed away recently from prostate cancer and it quickly took me back to one of the darkest and most volatile periods of modern American history. Before l continue let me get the following disclaimer out of the way. The thoughts l’m about to share with you good people who faithfully read the Indianapolis Recorder and support their numerous sponsors are mine,& and quite simply mine alone. I’m about to reflect on the pain and suffering that so many& people experienced and how it shook our nation to its core and speaking as someone who lost a younger brother to a violent murder in 1975, l have some perspective that hopefully creates a civil thought process, one without discourse. Simpson, in my opinion, murdered the mother of his children and turned his rage on her friend who was simply in the wrong place at the right time. I believe Ron Goldman walked into a violent situation and, because he was now a witness, also had to be murdered.& The events that would unfold from those murders paralyzed the world far beyond the United States as Simpson who was a former star athlete, was embraced by corporate America as...