@mekkaokereke > You have to understand that at the time of the OJ trial, most of the United States still believed that Black folk were making all of the stories of police brutality up.

This really weirds me out, honestly. Even before the internet, it was pretty clear to me as a kid from both personal experience ("authorities" lie and cheat for their pride and ego, constantly) and books (I liked reading about history, incidentally) that the "authorities" are /usually/ complicit if not outright the most active party in such things. (Oh sure, those books usually talked about other countries, but what was so fundamentally different about mine? I had no concept of exceptionalism pertaining to my country, I didn't actually get the notion of exceptionalism and still consider it hypocritical nonsense at best.)

That an adult population would really believe that is depressing. Of course I think they knew that was bullshit, and they just refused to own up to it.