Accepted Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

O.J. Simpson was primarily interested in O.J. His rise to fame in the late '60s coincided with the period where black athletes were more…

— Ezra Edelman

I think O. J. Simpson was a very prominent figure in the African-American community. He was sort of a manifestation of the American dream:…

— Sterling K. Brown

O.J. Simpson existed in a bubble. So when Harry Edwards approached him about being involved in the Olympic Project for Human Rights, O.J.'s response…

— Ezra Edelman

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

Interestingly enough, I feel what the show [OJ Simpson] was able to accomplish in a really masterful way is that White America could look…

— Sterling K. Brown

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

Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with…

— Chadwick Boseman

Race was thick in the O.J. Simpson case from the very beginning, but it wasn't evident. And I think the O.J. Simpson case revealed…

— Michael Eric Dyson

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

— Reggie Jackson

As a black actor, you always have the feeling that there's not as much work out there as for a white counterpart, but is…

— Dorian Missick

Whites who otherwise were able to tolerate a black president, Obama, because on certain issues he appealed to them on substance, Trump was able…

— Allan Nairn

“White audiences, along with everybody else, tuned in to watch Trump—but either they didn’t particularly like him or they simply loved to hate him.…

— Joshua Green