Baltimore Quote by Sterling K. Brown

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

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

“In the weeks leading up to the Detroit rebellion, three incidents exacerbated racial tensions. On June 12, a mob of more than eighty whites…

— Joshua Bloom

The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with…

— Noam Chomsky

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

Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my police officers…

— Rudy Giuliani

That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black…

— J. C. Watts

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

— Al Sharpton

Unfortunately I feel like a lot of the issues that the show [OJ Simpson ] was dealing with are still very much in the…

— Sterling K. Brown

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not…

— Toni Morrison

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

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

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw