was a spot, for one brief shining moment...
1. O.J. Simpson Verdict, October 3, 1995. The jury may have said "Not
Guilty" because of the brilliance of a black defense attorney, and the
law students from Howard University may have cheered, and
African-Americans may have felt that this was a victory for the whole
lot of them against a system that had been stacked against them for
far too long...but I didn't see it that way. I never did. What I saw
was a wife beater and stalker get away with nearly decaptiating the
mother of his children and brutally stabbing a total stranger to
death. For me, it was NEVER a black/white issue. It was a matter of a
man beating a woman and getting away with it, until he finally killed
her.
Honorable Mention: Militants Take 52 Hostages from the U.S. Embassy in
Iran, November 4, 1979. Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree.
The footage of those blindfolded Americans being terrified by
extremists is something that is burned into our national heritage.
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