Beginning Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Racism is what acquitted O. J. Simpson.

— Katherine Ryan

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

— Hillary Clinton

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

— Gerald Vizenor

fter the O.J. Simpson trial there was talk about how the country was splitting in two - one part black, one part white. It…

— Richard Rodriguez

I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw it as exclusively about…

— Alex Tizon

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns…

— Angela Davis

When people talked about O.J. Simpson being race-neutral, that was a race card. It just meant we don't think of him as black. But…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“Race doesn't exist. Skin color exists. Hair and eye color are real. Body type varies from individual to individual, as does tooth shape and…

— Holly Lisle

I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fatigue that America has endured over the…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a…

— Sterling K. Brown

It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further…

— Michael Eric Dyson