Those Without, Assert Guilt.
| 1993 Nobel Prize Winner [literature] Toni Morrison unfolds the most brilliant analysis of the OJS event I've seen yet, in "The Official Story: Dead Man Golfing," one of several essays by esteemed scholars in the book: BIRTH OF A NATION'HOOD: Gaze, Script & Spectacle in the OJ Simpson Trial." [Pantheon, January, 1997] |
| Arguably the best writer in the history of the universe , Toni Morrison compares the film Birth of a Nation "which solidified post-Civil War America's assumptions of and desires for white supremacy"...to the OJS saga: "it is clear that the Simpson official narrative, like Birth of a Nation, is ruled by race...[the OJS] case has generated a newer, more sophisticated national narrative of racial supremacy." |
| As a novelist who often attended the trial and examined the proceedings in detail, Morrison declares: "...it is the absence of a rational analysis of behaviour that is so disturbing in the OJ Simpson case. ..I have wasted piles of paper trying to complete a believable narrative ... using all the admissible evidence... I shaped it as fiction because fiction has its own internal laws of character logic where action and chance and psychology must work together to illuminate character. In other words, its standards of believability are higher than those in life....all my efforts collapsed into nonsense." |
| Morrison evaluates the media: "Although some of the media made an effort at restraint, flecks of saliva regularly soiled its reportage. The predictable pounce on every scrap, every leak, every mucus thread of lie or gossip associated with these proceedings revolted and mesmerized. And while media avarice and shamelessness were remarked upon and condemned by the avaricious and the shameless, and while the aggression of the journalists, photographers, commentators and hucksters was routinely deplored by the aggressors themselves, the reporters seemed somehow as helpless as fawns in the industry headlights with as much choice as bullets in the barrel of corporate media guns...the marketing of every iota of the case had its own relentless power and there was no competition between dollars and disinterested analysis. Between dollars and a rival story. Dollars won." |
| Why? "It was clear from the beginning that the real possibility of Mr. Simpson's innocence was a story that had no legs and would not walk, let alone sell...one of a double murder by assailants unknown...In a culture dominated by images, Mr. Simpson is ideal..also, he is black...when race culpability or pathology is added to this market brew, profits soar and the narrative coalesces quickly, takes on another form and moves from commodity to lore." |
| And: "..imagining the consequences of a provably innocent Mr. Simpson is lethal. What if the punditocracy is wrong? What if the average person has been ambushed on the 'information highway'? by now, the interests are so vested the official story is already in gear to protect itself. THE REHABILITATION OF DETECTIVE FUHRMAN WILL SOON COME [emphasis added]...the feelings and comments of anti-Simpson forces are solicited daily. In the civil case, no phalanx of reporters seek friends or family of Mr. Simpson to note or report their response to the case...the onus is on Mr. Simpson, a story he is forbidden to tell...
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| So there you have just a teeny part of it, just a sliver of the thoughts of the most highly esteemed writer/thinker of the world. Talks like a pro-j to me...:] |
Is it really necessary to assert guilt?
Was it really necessary for Toni Morrison to waste "piles of paper trying to complete a believable narrative..."?
I don't believe so.
Morrison was simply lacking the welth of backgound, and surpressed, informtion which has emerged since the conclusion of the Civil Trial. By using the timeline data as our structure, we have been able compile the publically available data into a coherent context. That data is easily documented, so the traditional assertors of guilt are routinely discredited. Where is exists, their racist bias is rapidly exposed -- a fact eloquently stated by Morrison. Those who are not "racist", but assume all blacks are criminals -- and all law enforcement agents are honest -- expose themselves through their insistance of presenting points of evidence out-of-context. Interestingly, the latter group represents a major segment of American society. It is their DOUBLE BIAS which has allowed a brutal killer to escape justice.
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